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Fountain Hills Community Foundation Inc

Building a Legacy in Fountain Hills and the surrounding communities.The Fountain Hills Community Foundation is a 501 C3 investing in nonprofit organizations whose work improves the lives of our youth seniors families and community.

$26k
Granted FY2020
22
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$483k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Scot$5,000
Extended Hands Food Bank$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Noon Kiwanis Club$2,000
Senior Services Inc$1,200
River of Time Museum$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Vision Fountain Hills FHCCA$500
Four Peaks Womens Club$500
Individual grant recipient$500
FH Soccer Club$500
Fountain Hills Theater$500
FH Youth Substance Abuse$500
FH Dark Sky FHCCA$500
02The need
02

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 (FY20–20, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%Foster Your Future: $250 → 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 field
03the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 22 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBoys and Girls Club of Greater Scot: $5,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Greater ScotNoon Kiwanis Club: $2,000 · OtherNoon Kiwanis ClubIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSenior Services Inc: $1,200 · OtherSenior Services Inc+10 more: $4,250 · Other+10 moreEXTENDED HANDS FOOD BANK: $5,000 · Food & NutritionEXTENDED HANDS FOOD B…Fountain Hills & Lower Verde River Valley Museum & Historical Society: $500 · Arts & CultureFOUNTAIN HILLS THEATER INC: $500 · Arts & CultureBOBS FREE BIKES: $250 · Recreation & SportsFOUNTAIN HILLS PTO INC: $250 · EducationFearless Kitty Rescue: $250 · AnimalsFOSTER YOUR FUTURE: $250 · Human Services
Other$19,450Food & Nutrition$5,000Arts & Culture$1,000Recreation & Sports$250Education$250Animals$250Human Services$250

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 budgetEXTENDED HANDS FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFountain Hills & Lower Verde River Valley Museum & Historical Society: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNTAIN HILLS PTO INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFearless Kitty Rescue: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTER YOUR FUTURE: $250 over 1y, 0.4% 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 EXTENDED HANDS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Fountain Hills & Lower Verde River Valley Museum & Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds FOUNTAIN HILLS THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds BOBS FREE BIKES ↗
  • Who funds FOUNTAIN HILLS PTO INC ↗
  • Who funds Fearless Kitty Rescue ↗
  • Who funds FOSTER YOUR FUTURE ↗

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.

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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 Fountain Hills Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fountain Hills Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    1report 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 22 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $68k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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