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Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona

Innovation to advance health and well-being across northern arizona's diverse population and geography.

$817k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Health$32MHuman Services$641kEducation$604kYouth Development$588kHousing & Shelter$455kPhilanthropy$223kPublic Safety & Disaster$149kArts & Culture$135kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $339k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $464k
$47,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BOYS AND GIRLD CLUB OF FLAGSTAFF$47,500
FLAGSTAFF MEDICAL CENTER$47,500
ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK$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
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $200k → 15%HOPI FOUNDATION: $45k → 26%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $47k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER PHOENIX: $5k → 11%ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%THE HOPI FOUNDATION: $40k → 26%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $66k → 11%ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $8k → 15%AZ's Children Assoc for Comm Dvlpmtl screening: $7k → 15%GRIFFITH BLUE HEART NON-PROFIT: $109k → 11%STEPS TO RECOVERY HOMES: $200k → 14%GRIFFITH BLUE HEART NONPROFIT: $92k → 11%STEPS TO RECOVERY: $52k → 14%NORTHERN ARIZONA HEALTHCARE: $251k → 16%VV Senior Center Meals on Wheels Program: $6k → 14%VERDE VALLEY CAREGIVERS: $54k → 14%VERDE VALLEY CAREGIVERS COALITION: $50k → 14%NORTHLAND HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $13k → 16%CATHOLIC CARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $40k → 16%HOZHONI FOUNDATION: $22k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA: $5k → 16%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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 65% of Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 36%.

Health First Foundation-Northern Arizonalessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33M · 32 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
25

Total granted

$33M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+31%

Still filing today

78%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $329k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • NA
    Northern Arizona Healthcare Corporation
    6× · 2017–2025 · $23M · revenue +106%
  • FM
    Flagstaff Medical Center
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +37%
  • VV
    Verde Valley Medical Center
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • CC
    COCONINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    2× · 2019–2020 · $175k · revenue +83%
  • BS
    BUFFALO SPORTS PROPERTIES LLC
    one grant, 2018 · $135k
  • SO
    SEDONA OAK CREEK JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT #9
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
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
Navajoland Nursing Homes Inc Chinle Nursing Homes

To continue to provide the best home like care facility for our Navajo elders and others with optium resources and professionalism.

Human Services
2
Southeastern Arizona Behavioral Health Services Inc

Our mission is continually to 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
3
Marana Health Center Inc

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

Health
4
Nazcare Inc

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

Health
5
Canyonlands Community Health Center

The mission of canyonlands healthcare is to promote healthier lives through affordable, accessible, integrated primary care.

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6
Adelante Healthcareinc

Mission: cultivate health by supporting individuals and the community at every step of their journey. vision: lead a future in which accessible, high-quality care sets the standard for all. adelante healthcare, a federally qualified health…

Health
7
Utah Navajo Health System Inc

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

Health
8
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
9
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
10
Ajo Community Health Center

The vision of desert senita community health center states: your center for healing and wellness. the mission is quality, local, affordable healthcare for all. desert senita community health center is the sole provider of primary medical,…

Health
11
Arizona Association of Community Health Centers Inc

To promote and facilitate the development and delivery of affordable and accessible primary healthcare for everyone in arizona through advocacy, education and technical assistance.

Health
12
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Verde Valley Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is Griffith Blue Heart. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 64 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
38/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northern Arizona Healthcare Corporation: $22,693,270 · HealthNorthern Arizona Healthcare CorporationFlagstaff Medical Center: $1,702,257 · HealthFlagstaff Medical CenterVerde Valley Medical Center: $1,244,181 · Health+10 more: $925,946 · HealthWILLIAMS HOSPITAL DISTRICT OF COCONINO COUNTY: $3,425,660 · OtherWILLIAMS HOSPITAL…Flagstaff Unified School District: $450,441 · OtherFlagstaff Unified…NORTH COUNTRY HEALTHCARE INC: $251,522 · OtherCOCO COMM COLLEGE: $200,000 · Other+27 more: $1,178,218 · Other+27 moreNORTHLAND HOSPICE: $302,059 · Human ServicesSTEPS TO RECOVERY HOMES: $252,000 · Human ServicesARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $239,933 · Human ServicesGriffith Blue Heart: $201,206 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $105,958 · Human ServicesVERDE VALLEY CAREGIVERS COALITION: $104,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUKWSIWMANI: $85,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $46,547 · Human Services+3 more: $38,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $448,000 · EducationCOCONINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $175,000 · EducationFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC: $295,000 · Housing & ShelterRED FEATHER DEVELOPMENT GROUP: $119,500 · Housing & ShelterUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $202,500 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropySedona International Film Festival & Workshop: $50,000 · Arts & CultureRED EARTH THEATRE COMPANY: $45,000 · Arts & CultureFLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$26,565,654Other$5,505,841Human Services$1,374,703Education$623,000Housing & Shelter$414,500Philanthropy$222,500Arts & Culture$135,000

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 budgetNorthern Arizona Healthcare Corporation: $22,693,270 over 6y, 12% of budgetFlagstaff Medical Center: $1,702,257 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVerde Valley Medical Center: $1,244,181 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $448,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWEST YAVAPAI GUIDANCE CLINIC INC: $321,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHLAND HOSPICE: $302,059 over 3y, 11% of budgetCREEK VALLEY HEALTH CLINIC: $297,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC: $295,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSTEPS TO RECOVERY HOMES: $252,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY HEALTHCARE INC: $251,522 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $239,933 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $202,500 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetGriffith Blue Heart: $201,206 over 2y, 57% of budgetCOCONINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetRED FEATHER DEVELOPMENT GROUP: $119,500 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $105,958 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVERDE VALLEY CAREGIVERS COALITION: $104,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetTHE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUKWSIWMANI: $85,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA: $82,286 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $76,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetManzanita Outreach: $50,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetSedona International Film Festival & Workshop: $50,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK: $47,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FLAGSTAFF: $47,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $46,547 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUBA CITY REGIONAL HEALTH CARE CORPORATION: $44,533 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVAJO HOPI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $43,864 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetFLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetNORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER: $37,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCancer Support Community Arizona: $35,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetJerry Ambrose Veterans Council of Mohave County: $35,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE POORE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $32,135 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetKINGMAN HEALTHCARE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHOZHONI FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADULT COMMUNITY CENTER of SEDONA SEDONA COMMUNITY CENTER: $17,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWhite Mountain Regional Medical Center: $15,128 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NARBHA INSTITUTE INC: $12,334 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFlagstaff Chamber of Commerce Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCIVITAN FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERDE VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…The Narbha Institute …Molly and Joseph Herm…Burton Family Foundat…The Foundation for Co…United Way of Norther…Geile Charitable Foun…Forest Highlands Foun…Del E Webb FoundationThe Diane and Bruce H…Virginia G Piper Char…Geofamily Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ77.9× affinity49 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 · Burton Family Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · United Way of Northern Arizona Inc · Geile Charitable Foundation · Forest Highlands Foundation · Del E Webb Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Geofamily 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 Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona?

    Find your warmest path to Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 64 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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