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Grand Canyon University
GCU is a missional, Christ-centered university with an innovative and adaptive spirit that addresses the world's deep needs by cultivating compassionate Christian community, empowering free and virtuous action, and serving others in ways that promote human flourishing.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $262,360 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $386,098,916 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $385,836,556 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity Central AZ | $150,000 |
| Naismith Mem Basketball Hall of Fame | $75,000 |
| Barry Goldwater Inst for pub pol rsrch | $25,000 |
| FIESTA EVENTS INC | $12,360 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $521k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 99% of Grand Canyon University’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 1% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GCGrand Canyon University CityServe3× · 2022–2024 · $491k · revenue +53%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CENTRAL ARIZONA2× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +4%
- FEFIESTA EVENTS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- 1N19 NORTH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
- GMGAMMA MU FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -21%
- MUMidwestern Universityone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +11%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The organization's mission is to attract and grow quality businesses and advocate for greater phoenix's competitiveness.
Greater phoenix chamber foundation (gpcf), a 501c3 launched in 2016, leads the charitable and education initiatives of the greater phoenix chamber under the four pillars of education, workforce development, wellness, and research. the…
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.
To advocate for and act on education improvements that advance the quality of life for all arizonans.
Together, we create interdisciplinary, experiential, and diverse learning environments that inspire future leaders to develop a healthy, just and sustainable world. we value our inclusive community, experiential and field-based learning, a…
The arizona center for law in the public interest is a non-profit law firm dedicated to ensuring government accountability and protecting the legal rights of arizonans.
Genesis city's mission is to effect positive change in our community by empowering disadvantaged youth to acquire the education and work skills they need to become lifelong learners and productive members of their community in this and…
The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona and the most unlike its peers is 19 North Community Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Grand Canyon University CityServe ↗
- Who funds NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CENTRAL ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds FIESTA EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds 19 NORTH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GAMMA MU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Midwestern University ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds STREETLIGHTUSA ↗
- Who funds CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM ARIZONA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Grand Canyon University funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.