· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Phoenix Youth Theatre | $14,500 |
| Accents (Horizon High School) | $11,176 |
| Take It From The Top | $4,230 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,285 |
| Kristen Chenoweth Arts and Education Fund | $2,000 |
| United Food Bank | $1,000 |
| Valley Guardians | $1,000 |
| Alzheimer's Association | $500 |
| Casa De Brazil | $300 |
| Phoenix Children's Foundation | $250 |
| My AZ Recovery | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PYPhoenix Youth Theatre4× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +133%
- TITAKE IT FROM THE TOP INC3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +121%
- CBCASA BRAZIL INC3× · 2023–2025 · $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%
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.
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.
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.
Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
To ignite imagination, wonder and joy by creating strikingly original theatre and learning experiences that inspire young minds to explore and soar.
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.
Foster excellence in youth by facilitating artistic, cultural, and personal development through choral education and performance.
Building community by celebrating the art and diversity of film.
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,…
To provide financial assistance to arizona's children association.
To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.
Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.
Phoenix theatre creates exceptional theatrical experiences to articulate messages that inspire hope and understanding.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Phoenix Youth Theatre ↗
- Who funds TAKE IT FROM THE TOP INC ↗
- Who funds CASA BRAZIL INC ↗
- Who funds LEAD GUITAR ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND ↗
- Who funds THE KRISTIN CHENOWETH ARTS AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds United Food Bank ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds VALLEY GUARDIANS INC ↗
- Who funds SWIFT YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FOSTER ALLIANCE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Junior Hero funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Junior Hero. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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