How much does First Credit Union give?

First Credit Union reported 4 itemized grants totaling $27,508, out of $67,906 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does First Credit Union fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (42%), Philanthropy (27%), Human Services (11%).

Who are First Credit Union's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Children's Miracle Network ($34k), Downtown Chandler Community Foundation Inc ($25k), Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ($16k).

Does First Credit Union fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as First Credit Union?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is First Credit Union based?

First Credit Union is based in AZ.

First Credit Union

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· Public charity

First Credit Union

Non-profit cooperative that provides banking and other financial services to its members.

$68k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$49kPhilanthropy$33kHuman Services$13kYouth Development$12kAnimals$7kFood & Nutrition$5k

02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 4 grants below total $27,508, the rows itemized in this filing. The $67,906 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,398 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.

$7,000

Median grant

States reached

$735M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK	$9,500
CITY OF CHANDLER OSTRICH FESTIVAL	$7,000
ICAN	$6,000
ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK	$5,008

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $7k) 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.

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$86k · 4 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$86k

$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+23%

Still filing today

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

CM
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK
3× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +21%
PC
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation
2× · 2021–2023 · $16k · revenue +10%
II
ICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS
2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +23%

Funded once

NC
NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -15%
GF
GOWEST FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +519%
A
AZCEND
one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +23%

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.

Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

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Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy

United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

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100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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Apache Junction Chamber of Commerce

To promote, develop and unite the business community in and around apache junction, gold canyon, and east mesa to accomplish economic growth.

—

Nourishphx

Nourishphx (fka icm food & clothing bank) is the trusted community hub serving vulnerable individuals and families by offering resources to satisfy immediate needs and to provide pathways to self-sufficiency.

Human Services

Tempe Chamber of Commerce

To promote economic growth, be the leading public policy advocate for business, be a strategic partner in intitiatives that improve the quality of life, and provide valued services to its members.

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For Our City - Chandler

All volunteer chandler AZ based organization that brings together community, service, business, and faith-based organizations to assist the homeless, seniors, Chandler students in need and low-income or disabled Chandler residents.

Human Services

Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights

Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network; the most unlike its peers is Phoenix Children's Hospital 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

9 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/9

Grantees still filing

6/9

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$48,353Philanthropy$25,000Health$15,603Human Services$12,500Youth Development$12,000Food & Nutrition$5,008

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

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

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 First Credit Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Credit Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2023

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

2report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home