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Junior League of Phoenix Inc

The Junior League of Phoenix, Inc.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Food & Nutrition$242kYouth Development$54kPhilanthropy$20kScience & Tech$10k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Girl Scouts - Cactus Pine$15,000
Live & Learn$12,000
Arizona Science Center$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $10k → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $10k → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $10k → 11%THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $15k → 11%THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $15k → 11%THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $15k → 11%CITY OF PHOENIX: $9k → 11%Girl Scouts - Cactus Pine: $15k → 11%GIRL SCOUTS ARIZONA CACTUS PINE: $15k → 11%LIVE AND LEARN: $12k → 11%Live & Learn: $12k → 11%Arizona Science Center: $10k → 11%PHOENIX DAY HEALTH: $7k → 11%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%FRESH EXPRESS (DISCOVERY TRIANGLE): $21k → 11%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%MITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES INC DBA HARVEST COMPASSION CENTER: $15k → 11%MITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES INC DBA HARVEST COMPASSION CENTER: $15k → 11%MITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES INC DBA HARVEST COMPASSION CENTER: $15k → 11%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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 26% of Junior League of Phoenix Inc’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, 74%.

Junior League of Phoenix Inclessmore 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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$164k · 5 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$164k
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • MS
    MITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +83%
  • DC
    DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
    3× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +28%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • PG
    PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $85k · revenue +26%
  • AF
    Activate Food Arizona
    one grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue +16%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -5%
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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
3
Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health
4
Greater Phoenix Economic Council

The organization's mission is to attract and grow quality businesses and advocate for greater phoenix's competitiveness.

Community Improvement
5
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
6
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

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7
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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8
Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

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9
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona

The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…

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10
Phoenix Seminary Inc

Phoenix seminary's mission is to train men and women for christ-centered ministry for the building of healthy churches in phoenix and the world.

Education
11
Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health
12
Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Science Center; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $85,000 · ReligionPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSIONDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $45,000 · ReligionDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCEN…MITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES INC: $45,000 · PhilanthropyMITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES…VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $30,000 · PhilanthropyVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED W…LIVE AND LEARN PROGRAM: $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIVE AND LEAR…GIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS -…Girl Scouts - Cactus Pine: $15,000 · OtherGirl Scout…CITY OF PHOENIX: $9,485 · OtherCITY OF PH…PHOENIX DAY: $6,867 · OtherPHOENIX DA…Activate Food Arizona: $20,642 · Community ImprovementAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 · HealthARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Religion$130,000Philanthropy$75,000Youth Development$39,000Other$31,352Community Improvement$20,642Health$20,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $85,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE AND LEARN PROGRAM: $24,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetActivate Food Arizona: $20,642 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX DAY: $6,867 over 1y, 0.5% 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…Valley of the Sun Uni…Thunderbirds CharitiesVirginia G Piper Char…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Arizona Community FoundationAZ17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Junior League of Phoenix Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Junior League of Phoenix Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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.

    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 12 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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