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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.

$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Arts & Culture$61kEducation$40kInternational$8kHuman Services$4kAnimals$3kFood & Nutrition$1kYouth Development$1kHealth$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
$920
Median grant
4
States reached
$910k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

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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.

area typical 11%Edward Charles Foundation: $750 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$101k · 7 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$101k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+121%
+35%

Still filing today

57%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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

  • PY
    Phoenix Youth Theatre
    3× · 2022–2024 · $46k · revenue +133%
  • TI
    TAKE IT FROM THE TOP INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +121%
  • CB
    CASA BRAZIL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • LEAD GUITAR
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +2%
  • PF
    PAWS fur a Cure
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • HB
    HOMEWARD BOUND
    one 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.

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.

1
Loft Cinema Inc Fka Tucson Cinema Foundation Inc

Building community by celebrating the art and diversity of film.

Arts & Culture
2
Cyt Phoenix

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Saguaro City Music Theatre

Using the art of musical theatre to promote diverse artistic opportunities and community involvement.

Arts & Culture
4
Foundation for Creative Broadcasting

To connect the communities of tucson and southern arizona to each other and to the world, with informative, engaging and creative community-based programming.

Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Film Society

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…

6
Monterey Peninsula Ballet Theatre Corp

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Opera Southwest

Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.

Arts & Culture
8
Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation

The fox tucson theatre enlivens tucson, fostering community growth and connections by shaping exceptional, live arts experiences in a celebrated setting.

Arts & Culture
9
Arizona Theatre Company

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.

Arts & Culture
10
The American Theatre Guild

The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.

Arts & Culture
11
Santa Fe Community Foundation

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,…

Philanthropy
12
San Carlos Childrens Theater

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

Arts & Culture

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Phoenix Youth Theatre — $45,500 · OtherPhoenix Youth TheatreHorizon High School — $20,962 · OtherHorizon High SchoolParadise Velley Unified School Dist — $18,250 · OtherParadise Velley Unified School DistIndividual grant recipient — $5,200 · Other+11 more — $12,935 · Other+11 moreLEAD GUITAR — $5,000 · Arts & CultureLEAD GUITARTAKE IT FROM THE TOP INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTAKE IT FRO…From The Heart Productions — $2,000 · Arts & CultureFrom The He…THE KRISTIN CHENOWETH ARTS AND EDUCATION FUND — $700 · Arts & CultureTHE KRISTIN…CASA BRAZIL INC — $4,760 · PhilanthropyHOMEWARD BOUND — $3,000 · Housing & ShelterUnited Food Bank — $1,065 · Food & NutritionSWIFT YOUTH FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $750 · Human ServicesTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE — $212 · Education
Other$102,847Arts & Culture$12,700Philanthropy$4,760Housing & Shelter$3,000Food & Nutrition$1,065Recreation & Sports$1,000Human Services$750Education$212

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPhoenix Youth Theatre — $45,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetLEAD GUITAR — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTAKE IT FROM THE TOP INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCASA BRAZIL INC — $4,760 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Food Bank — $1,065 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWIFT YOUTH FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KRISTIN CHENOWETH ARTS AND EDUCATION FUND — $700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE — $212 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Junior Hero?

    Find your warmest path to Junior Hero 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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