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Esperanza Charitable Fund

Provide support and benefits to the church of jesus christ of latter day saints by providing grants for assistance.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$932,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$44M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Esperanza Charitable Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$1.7M29%
FY202313$1.7M31%
FY202210$1.1M20%
FY20218$2.2M0%
FY202012$1.3M25%
FY201912$1.6M0%
FY201814$607k14%
FY201714$471kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$7.4MCivil Rights$675kArts & Culture$675kInternational$515kEducation$475kHousing & Shelter$215kPhilanthropy$185kHuman Services$182kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints$7,314,3408n/a
The Becket Fund$675,00081%
National Center on Sexual Exploitation$552,66754%
Care for Life Inc$455,000817%
House of Refuge Inc$215,00072%
American Leadership Academy$215,00040%
The Institute for Family Studies$160,00084%
Academy for Creating Enterprise$160,00054%
Save the Family Foundation of Arizona$121,64541%
United Food Bank$120,00080%
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Where it is load-bearing

Esperanza Charitable Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Becket Fund: $675,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetNational Center on Sexual Exploitation: $552,667 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetCare for Life Inc: $455,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetHouse of Refuge Inc: $215,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican Leadership Academy: $215,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Institute for Family Studies: $160,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $160,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetSave the Family Foundation of Arizona: $121,645 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Food Bank: $120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetT Golden Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetThe Legacy Films Foundation: $82,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetNew Freedom Project: $60,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetMentors International: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMake Elections Fair Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVoter Choice Arizona: $50,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetInternational Organization for the Family: $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMetropolitan Youth Symphony: $22,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetArizona State University Foundation for a New American University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Apologetic Information and Research: $20,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetThe Welcome to America Project: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetArizona Trail Association: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTo Seek Life: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetPositive Paths: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetOK Foundation: $9,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ19.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · The Shedry Dar Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · University Impact · The Community Foundation of Utah · American Express Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

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About Esperanza Charitable Fund

How much does Esperanza Charitable Fund give?
Esperanza Charitable Fund reported 14 grants totaling $1,667,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Esperanza Charitable Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (69%), Civil Rights (6%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are Esperanza Charitable Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ($7.3M), The Becket Fund ($675k), National Center on Sexual Exploitation ($553k).
Does Esperanza Charitable Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Esperanza Charitable Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, The Shedry Dar Foundation, Beesley Family Foundation.
Where is Esperanza Charitable Fund based?
Esperanza Charitable Fund is based in AZ.

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 29 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.

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