· Private foundation
Junior Hero
JUNIOR HERO IS A NON-PROFIT 501(C)3 THAT MAKES IT FUN FOR FOR STUDENTS, PARENTS, AND TEACHERS TO SERVE THEIR COMMUNITY AND THOSE AROUND THEM.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Horizon High School | $17,550 |
| Phoenix Youth Theatre | $16,500 |
| Take It From The Top | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| United Food Bank | $1,065 |
| Accents (Horizon High School) | $920 |
| Casa Brazil | $800 |
| Kristen Chenoweth Arts and Education Fund | $700 |
| Swift Youth Foundation | $500 |
| Arizona Cancer Society | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $232 |
| The Foster Alliance | $212 |
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 (FY23–23, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +121% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- PYPhoenix Youth Theatre3× · 2022–2024 · $46k · revenue +133%
- TITAKE IT FROM THE TOP INC2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +121%
- CBCASA BRAZIL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +41%
Funded once
LEAD GUITARone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +2%- PFPAWS fur a Cureone grant, 2023 · $3k
- HBHOMEWARD BOUNDone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -76%
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.
Building community by celebrating the art and diversity of film.
Cyt phoenix continues to serve families educating the youth through musical theater. our education first philosophy allows us to develop character one stage at a time while preparing children for leadership.
Using the art of musical theatre to promote diverse artistic opportunities and community involvement.
To connect the communities of tucson and southern arizona to each other and to the world, with informative, engaging and creative community-based programming.
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
Fostering the passion and development of local youth through the performing arts, where talents and life skills may grow in an inspiring and nurturing environment.
Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.
The fox tucson theatre enlivens tucson, fostering community growth and connections by shaping exceptional, live arts experiences in a celebrated setting.
ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
San carlos children's theater is a non-profit organization committed to educating youth on all aspects of theater production while nurturing creative expression, teamwork and appreciation for the arts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Kristin Chenoweth Arts and Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Casa Brazil Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 Phoenix Youth Theatre ↗
- Who funds LEAD GUITAR ↗
- Who funds TAKE IT FROM THE TOP INC ↗
- Who funds CASA BRAZIL INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds United Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SWIFT YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE KRISTIN CHENOWETH ARTS AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE FOSTER ALLIANCE ↗
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.
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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 Junior Hero 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.
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