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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 FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$932k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $580k
  • $250k+1 grant · $932k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS$932,000
NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION$220,000
BECKETT FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY$150,000
CARE FOR LIFE CO CINDY PACKARD$60,000
ACADEMY FOR CREATING ENTERPRISE - CALLED2SERVE FOUNDATION$50,000
VOTERS CHOICE ARIZONA$50,000
MAKE ELECTIONS FAIR$50,000
HOUSE OF REFUGE$35,000
MENTOR INTERNATIONAL$30,000
GOLD CANYON HEART AND HOME NOW KNOW AS NEW FREEDOM PROJECT$30,000
INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES$20,000
UNITED FOOD BANK$15,000
POSITIVE PATHS$10,000
TO SEEK LIFE$10,000
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 (FY23–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GOLD CANYON HEART AND HOME NOW KNOW AS NEW FREEDOM PROJECT: $30k → 11%GOLD CANYON HEART AND HOME NOW KNOW AS NEW FREEDOM PROJECT: $30k → 11%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 18 repeat orgs$394k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$10M
$274k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+89%

Still filing today

89%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureReligionHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TB
    The Becket Fund
    8× · 2017–2024 · $675k · revenue +81%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $553k · revenue +6%
  • CF
    Care for Life Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $455k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LEGACY FILMS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $82k · revenue +89% · 27% of their budget
  • TL
    THE LIFT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +556%
  • AW
    ARIZONA WOMENS HISTORY ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
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2
The Fine Family Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The Family Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The International Foundation
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5
Arizona Freedom Foundation

The Foundation's mission is to foster independent journalism and provide the general public with access to news, research and information not covered by traditional corporate media outlets. To that end, the Foundation operates AZ Free News…

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6
Leaving Legacies Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Dream Foundation Arizona
Employment
8
Foundational Questions Institute
Philanthropy
9
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
10
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
11
Four Angels Foundation
Philanthropy
12
World Family Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Family Foundation of Arizona; the most unlike its peers is T Golden Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 29 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $7,314,340 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS+11 more: $477,000 · Other+11 moreThe Becket Fund: $675,000 · Social ScienceCare for Life Inc: $455,000 · PhilanthropyT GOLDEN FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LIFT FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $9,500 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: $552,667 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN YOUTH SYMPHONY: $22,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $215,000 · EducationTHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES: $160,000 · EducationARIZONA WOMENS HISTORY ALLIANCE INC: $70,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $12,500 · EducationHOUSE OF REFUGE INC: $215,000 · Housing & ShelterSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $121,645 · Housing & ShelterAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $160,000 · InternationalMentors International: $60,000 · International
Other$7,791,340Social Science$675,000Philanthropy$639,500Arts & Culture$575,167Education$477,500Housing & Shelter$336,645International$220,000

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

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
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.

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 Fou…The Shedry Dar Founda…Beesley Family Founda…University ImpactThe Community Foundat…American Express Foun…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 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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