How much did HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION-NORTHERN grant in FY2025?

Health$26MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$623kHousing & Shelter$415kPhilanthropy$223kArts & Culture$110kFood & Nutrition$98kYouth Development$48kCrime & Legal$37kOther$4.6M

02beneath 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

2020

ronald mcdonaldlivingcoconinonavajobanner diamonddiamond children'shopi

2021

veteransnahpandemic mitigationlivescreatechildrenhealthcare

2022

radiation oncologynursing scholarshipnativepatient

2023

parentsfilmsedonapatientnativeeducation

2025

pathwayssheltercompassionateholisticwideyavapairelationships

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $10k
$10k–50k9 grants · $292k
$50k–250k5 grants · $464k

$47,500

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants

NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT$100,000
FREDONIA-MOCCASIN UNIFIED SCHOOL DI$98,000
POLARA HEALTH$95,000
FLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES$95,000
THE GUIDANCE CENTER$76,000
ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK$47,500
BOYS AND GIRLD CLUB OF FLAGSTAFF$47,500
FLAGSTAFF MEDICAL CENTER$47,500
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA$47,500
NORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER$37,000
COCONINO COUNTY HEALTH & HUMAN SERV$22,500
OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPY NORTHERN ARI$16,500
FLAGSTAFF MEDICAL CENTER$15,590
SEDONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$10,000
FLAGSTAFF MEDICAL CENTER$9,535

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 85% of those 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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 67% of HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION-NORTHERN’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, 100% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 33% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION-NORTHERNlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$32M · 23 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$32M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+44%

Still filing today

87%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $329k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

OO
OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPY NORTHERN ARI
5× · 2019–2025 · $23M · revenue +63%
FM
FLAGSTAFF MEDICAL CENTER
7× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +17%
VV
VERDE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER
5× · 2018–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +25%

Funded once

CC
COCONINO COMMUNITY COLLEGEgraduated
2× · 2019–2020 · $175k · revenue +125%
NA
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2018 · $135k
CC
COCONINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
one grant, 2018 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Marana Health Center Inc

Improving our community by providing exceptional, whole-person healthcare.

Health

Navajoland Nursing Homes Inc

The nursing home is located on the Navajo Indian Reservation which provides quality nursing home care services to the Navajo elderly and disabled adults. The facility provides a pleasant homelike atmosphere to ensure comfort, security and…

Human Services

Tucson Medical Center

Tucson medical center's mission is to deliver caring, personalized, quality healthcare to patients and their families in an environment that is supportive, education-focused and compassionate.

Health

Nazcare Inc

To provide behavioral health consumer-operated support, education, training services, and housing support to mental health consumers of arizona

Health

Utah Navajo Health System Inc

To improve quality of life through comprehensive, self-empowered, culturally-sensitive healthcare and amazing customer service.

Health

Oakwood Creative Care Inc

Oakwood Creative Care is the industry leader in providing diverse and innnovative care for the aging population in our community, focusing on those who experience challenges and disabilities.

Human Services

Southeastern Arizona Behavioral Health

Our mission is to continually improve the quality of life for the people we serve in collaboration with our diverse communities in a respectful, caring, culturally sensitive manner. The organization provides behavioral health services for…

Health

Yuma Regional Medical Center

Through prudent use of resources, our 406-bed inpatient hospital, along with numerous outpatient clinics, serves as the healthcare hub for all of yuma county.

Health

Regional Center for Border Health Inc

Committed to improving the quality of life of residents along the us-mexico border by increasing accessibility to quality training and affordable healthcare.

Health

Black Canyon Community Health Center Inc

Provide medical services to all persons in need in a rural community more than 50 miles from any other service.

Health

Northwest Community Health Care

The organization is a federally qualified health center that provides primary medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy and related patient support services to more than 18,000 individuals regardless of ability to pay.

Health

VerdeCares Inc

Non-medical senior support services to area residents

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flagstaff Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Steps to Recovery Homes. 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

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/68

the rest of the field

14%

2,691/19,143

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.

06the grantee network

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/51

Grantees still filing

39/51

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$25,984,723Other$4,764,883Human Services$1,153,703Education$623,000Housing & Shelter$414,500Philanthropy$222,500Arts & Culture$110,000

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ70.8× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · The Narbha Institute Inc · Molly and Joseph Herman Foundation · United Way of Northern Arizona Inc · Burton Family Foundation · Del E Webb Foundation · Geile Charitable Foundation · Geofamily Foundation · United Way of Yavapai County · Delta Dental Plan of Arizona · Arizona Cardinals Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc

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 HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION-NORTHERN 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

05Through 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: STEPS TO RECOVERY HOMES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463225513 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 STEPS TO RECOVERY HOMES, 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 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
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 Health First Foundation-Northern?

Find your warmest path to Health First Foundation-Northern 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.

HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION-NORTHERN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Health First Foundation-Northern?

More from the funding graph

HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION-NORTHERN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Health First Foundation-Northern?

More from the funding graph