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Greater Phoenix Leadership Inc

To improve the greater phoenix area and the state of arizona by bringing together talent, resources and leadership to create action on priority issues.

$868k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
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.

Public Benefit$2.2MCivil Rights$1.8MEnvironment$321kCommunity Improvement$310kYouth Development$120kEducation$55kPhilanthropy$27kHuman Services$8k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $250k+2 grants · $821k
$320,590
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMITTEE FOR AZ LEADERSHIP$500,000
RIO REIMAGINED FOUNDATION$320,590
VALLEY LEADERSHIP$25,000
STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INVEST SOUTHWEST: $10k → 11%STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP: $15k → 11%STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP: $15k → 11%EXPECT MORE ARIZONA: $15k → 11%STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP: $15k → 11%EXPECT MORE ARIZONA: $15k → 11%STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP: $15k → 11%EXPECT MORE ARIZONA: $15k → 11%STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP: $15k → 11%ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP: $15k → 11%ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP: $15k → 11%ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP: $15k → 11%ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%COMMITTEE FOR AZ LEADERSHIP: $800k → 11%COMMITTEE FOR AZ LEADERSHIP: $780k → 11%COMMITTEE FOR AZ LEADERSHIP: $500k → 11%GPL COM FOR AZ LEADERSHIP: $495k → 11%GPL COM FOR AZ LEADERSHIP: $400k → 11%GPL COM FOR AZ LEADERSHIP: $368k → 11%RIO REIMAGINED FOUNDATION: $321k → 11%GPL COM FOR AZ LEADERSHIP: $290k → 11%GPL COM FOR AZ LEADERSHIP: $250k → 11%PTNRSHP FOR ECON INNOVATION: $50k → 11%PTNRSHP FOR ECON INNOVATION: $50k → 11%PTNRSHP FOR ECON INNOVATION: $50k → 11%PTNRSHP FOR ECON INNOVATION: $50k → 11%PTNRSHP FOR ECON INNOVATION: $50k → 11%PTNRSHP FOR ECON INNOVATION: $50k → 11%GPL PAC: $8k → 11%VALLEY LEADERSHIP: $25k → 11%VALLEY LEADERSHIP: $25k → 11%VALLEY LEADERSHIP: $25k → 11%VALLEY LEADERSHIP: $25k → 11%VALLEY LEADERSHIP: $25k → 11%VALLEY LEADERSHIP: $25k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 5 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$4.5M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+549%

Still filing today

40%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $321k 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
Community ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentPublic BenefitEducationOther
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

  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC INNOVATION INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $300k · revenue +806%
  • VL
    VALLEY LEADERSHIP CORPORATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +10%
  • STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • IS
    INVEST SOUTHWEST
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -13%
  • SO
    SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +549%
  • GP
    GPL PAC
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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 Educational Foundation Inc

To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.

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2
Arizona Leads

We facilitate effective, bipartisan partnerships needed to achieve educational excellence and scale success across arizona's public schools - both district and charter.

Education
3
Invision Az

Arizona is on the cusp of a technological rise. invisionaz will accelerate the growth of arizona's vibrant tech ecosystem by creating, promoting, and leading the framework that allows technology, innovation, and investment to flourish. the…

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4
Arizona Forward Association

Arizona Forward brings business and civic leaders together to promote cooperative efforts to improve the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of our state and local regions.

Community Improvement
5
Education Forward Arizona

To advocate for and act on education improvements that advance the quality of life for all arizonans.

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6
Arizonans for Economic Prosperity

Arizonans for economic prosperity mission is to work toward a prosperous arizona economy for all.

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7
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
8
Arizona Technology Council

To connect and strengthen arizona's technology industry and community, promote state and federal policies that enhance arizona's technology industry, deliver quality content and events to educate those working in arizona's expanding…

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9
Arizona Chamber Foundation

The mission of the arizona chamber foundation is to be a leading resource of forward-thinking expert research, analysis, news and public programming on policy issues that impact arizona business and the state's business climate and to…

Education
10
Arizona Regional Economic Development Foundation

Preservation and strengthening of the regional economy through initiatives focused on industry recruitment, expansion and development. The mission is accomplished by providing consulting services, promotion of special events, and leasing…

Community Improvement
11
Center for the Future of Arizona

Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.

Community Improvement
12
Startupaz Foundation

The mission of startupaz is to build a local community of entrepreneurs that want to make a positive impact in arizona.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save Our Schools Arizona; the most unlike its peers is Expect More Arizona. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMITTEE FOR AZ LEADERSHIP: $3,883,000 · OtherCOMMITTEE FOR AZ LEADERSHIP+2 more: $17,500 · OtherRIO REIMAGINED FOUNDATION: $320,590 · EnvironmentPARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC INNOVATION INC: $300,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementVALLEY LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $150,000 · Public BenefitSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentEXPECT MORE ARIZONA: $45,000 · EducationARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $26,500 · Philanthropy
Other$3,900,500Environment$320,590Community Improvement$310,000Public Benefit$150,000Youth Development$120,000Education$45,000Philanthropy$26,500

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 budgetRIO REIMAGINED FOUNDATION: $320,590 over 1y, 100% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC INNOVATION INC: $300,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetVALLEY LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $150,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC: $120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEXPECT MORE ARIZONA: $45,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $26,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINVEST SOUTHWEST: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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 RIO REIMAGINED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC INNOVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EXPECT MORE ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INVEST SOUTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA ↗

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.

Helios Education Foun…Arizona Community Fou…
Helios Education FoundationAZ13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Helios Education Foundation · Arizona Community 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 Greater Phoenix Leadership Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Phoenix Leadership Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    1get 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 10 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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