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· Public charity
Grand Canyon University CityServe
To be a compassionate christian outreach ministry of gcu that provides resources to help support individuals and families in need, provides educational programs that lead to long-term sustainability, transforms lives and the community, and enhances the educational experience for students
$4.2M
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
2
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2022
futureaged outhoodspiritachievereunificationresource
2023
chaplaincythriveaged outpresencekingdomhoodspirit
2024
needyglobalfoster childrenvictimssex traffickingteachorganized
2025
reliefmealshealingneedyvictimssex traffickingaround
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona$50,000
- Feed the Children Inc$15,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Grand Canyon University CityServe’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, 63% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Grand Canyon University CityServelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient 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.
03Your field
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.
1
Building Arizona Families
Human Services
2
Arizonas Family to the Homeless
Outreach to the homeless, ministry support, food donations and supplies
Food & Nutrition
3
Caring Ministries Inc
Food and clothing distribution along the arizona/mexico border and southern arizona. provide living quarters for volunteer missionaries who have no other place to live and to provide support to orphanages.
Religion
4
Laced With Love
To provide resources to children in AZ DCS Custody
Human Services
5
Faith House Ministries
Community outreach
Religion
6
Sunshine Rescue Mission
Since 1957, SRM has provided safe emergency shelter, meals, and clothing to anyone in need. All participants are experiencing homelessness and living below the federal poverty line at intake.Located in Flagstaff, we have three facilities.…
Religion
7
Christian Family Care Agency Inc
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on four pillars: preservation,…
Human Services
8
Recoverychick
religious
Human Services
9
House of Refuge Faith Based
Human Services
10
Faithful Servants Ministry
Housing the homeless
Human Services
11
Born Again Ministries
To provide or connect low -income or ex-offenders affordable houses who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to have a bighter future
Health
12
Grace Retreat Fostercare and Adoption
We are a licensing agency contracted by the state of arizona. we are committed to support families through the process of becoming licensed and providing a home for children. we believe that by supporting the families, they are able to…
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
5%
7/142
the rest of the field
15%
2,455/16,911
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
05the grantee network
52 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/52
Grantees still filing
34/52
Grew since you first funded
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.
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.
St Mary's Food Bank AllianceAZ40.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · Arizona Community Foundation · Arizona Food Bank Network · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Foster Alliance · Thunderbirds Charities · Canyon Institute · Feed the Children Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Waste Not Inc · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way
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 organisation Grand Canyon University CityServe 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue held over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 742401708 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Share of budget not derivable.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Grand Canyon University CityServe?
Find your warmest path to Grand Canyon University CityServe through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines