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· Public charity

Education Forward Arizona

To advocate for high-quality education and training that aligns with career and workforce opportunities to advance the quality of life for all arizonans.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
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02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$145kPublic Benefit$15kHuman Services$10k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $6,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,648,911 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,642,911 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EASY TO LEARN: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
1/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WINSLOW HIGH SCHOOL: $7,250 · OtherWINSLOW HIGH SCHOOLSUNNYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL CO SUNNYSIDE USD #12: $7,250 · OtherSUNNYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL CO SUNNYSIDE USD #12ASH FORK HIGH SCHOOL: $7,250 · OtherASH FORK HIGH SCHOOLYUMA HIGH SCHOOL: $7,250 · OtherYUMA HIGH SCHOOLCIENEGA HIGH SCHOOL: $7,250 · OtherCIENEGA HIGH SCHOOLMIAMI JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL: $7,250 · OtherMIAMI JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLDESERT VIEW HIGH SCHOOL CO SUNNYSIDE USD #12: $7,250 · OtherDESERT VIEW HIGH SCHOOL CO SUNNYSIDE USD #12NOGALES HIGH SCHOOL: $7,000 · OtherNOGALES HIGH SCHOOLGLENDALE HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT #205: $7,000 · OtherGLENDALE HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT #205MARCOS DE NIZA HIGH SCHOOL: $6,000 · OtherMARCOS DE NIZA HIGH SCHOOLGLOBE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $6,000 · OtherGLOBE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTCOCONINO HIGH SCHOOL: $6,000 · OtherCOCONINO HIGH SCHOOLSAHUARITA USD #30: $6,000 · OtherSAHUARITA USD #30MOUNTAIN POINTE HIGH SCHOOL: $6,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN POINTE HIGH SCHOOLBE A LEADER FOUNDATION: $22,500 · Public BenefitBE A LEADER FOUNDATIONVALLEY LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $15,000 · Public BenefitVALLEY LEADERSHIP CORPOR…PHOENIX PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15,500 · EducationPHOENIX PU…METROPOLITAN EDUCATION COMMISSION: $12,500 · Community ImprovementLIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$94,750Public Benefit$37,500Education$15,500Community Improvement$12,500Human Services$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBE A LEADER FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPHOENIX PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetVALLEY LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN EDUCATION COMMISSION: $12,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetLIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BE A LEADER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN EDUCATION COMMISSION ↗
  • Who funds LIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ellis Center for Educ…Garcia Family Foundat…Burton Family Foundat…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Arizona Community Fou…Fidelity Investments …
Ellis Center for Educational ExcellenceAZ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ellis Center for Educational Excellence · Garcia Family Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Education Forward Arizona funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Education Forward Arizona. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.8M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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