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Just Communities Arizona

To create, foster, and resource new models for safety and justice outside the punishment system.

$444k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$74k
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, FY2024 to 2025.

Human Services$190kArts & Culture$96kEnvironment$74kFood & Nutrition$73kPublic Benefit$47kHousing & Shelter$34kHealth$30kYouth Development$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $421,940, the rows itemized in this filing. The $443,978 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,038 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $166k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $249k
$36,483
Median grant
1
States reached
$395k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tiger Mountain Foundation Inc$73,635
Project Roots Inc$73,000
Native American Fatherhood & Families Association$52,154
Unlimited Potential Inc$50,167
Cihuapactli Collective$45,833
BlackNet$36,483
Deep Within Rehab Center Inc$33,782
Arizonans For Rational Sex Offense Laws$17,207
Friends of The Children - Phoenix$17,188
Melabiz Community Hub$15,476
Death Penalty Alternatives for Arizona Inc$7,015
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 (FY25–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Project Roots Inc: $73k → 11%Native American Fatherhood & Families Association: $52k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$172k · 3 repeat orgs$411k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against -28% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
2

Total granted

$172k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
-28%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UP
    UNLIMITED POTENTIAL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $95k · revenue +51%
  • VC
    VOTER CHOICE ARIZONA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $47k · revenue -13%
  • AF
    ARIZONANS FOR RATIONAL SEX OFFENSE LAWS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k

Funded once

  • RY
    REFRAME YOUTH ARTS CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -28%
  • FM
    FATHER MATTERS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $42k · revenue -59%
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
Black Phoenix Organizing Collective

We prioritize the needs of Black people through two programs: Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice. We believe that supporting mental healthcare, holding and creating space for vulnerability is a piece of how we free ourselves as…

Food & Nutrition
2
Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona

The Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona (CareAz) is a community-based organization dedicated to reducing the harmful effects of substance use disorder through comprehensive prevention, treatment, recovery, and reentry support.…

Health
3
Ascending Roots

Youth Outreach

Education
4
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
5
Neighborhood Wellness Foundation

Disrupting intergenerational trauma and poverty in Del Paso Heights and surrounging areas.

Community Improvement
6
Safe Space Organization

Safe Space Organization is a community safe space that strives to change the conversation around mental health by educating, connecting and supporting others through a peer-to-peer network. Safe Space is a community hub with therapeutic…

Health
7
I Broke the Cycle

Create and help a community of fathers

—
8
Arizona Community Health Workers Association Inc

The Mission of the Arizona Community Health Outreach Workers Network AzCHOW is to provide a forum for community health workers to inform and unite culturally diverse community health workers of all disciplines, and to strengthen the…

Health
9
Haitian American Center for Social Economic Dev Az
Community Improvement
10
Native Dads Network Inc

NDN provides psychoeducation courses, counseling, advocacy support, community eventsand conferences to Indigenous / Native American communities living in California. NDN trained staff provide culturally centered substance abuse prevention…

Human Services
11
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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12
Workin Rootz

Our mission is to revitalize and re-engage the community by reconnecting to the Earth through land stewardship, food sovereignty, sustainability, and herbalism.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Father Matters Inc; the most unlike its peers is Melabiz Community Hub. 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 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. 11 of the 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNLIMITED POTENTIAL INC: $95,262 · Human ServicesUNLIMITED POTENTIAL INCPROJECT ROOTS INC: $73,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT ROOTS INCNATIVE AMERICAN FATHERHOOD & FAMILIES ASSOCIATION: $52,154 · Human ServicesNATIVE AMERICAN FATHERHOOD & FAMILIES ASSO…REFRAME YOUTH ARTS CENTER: $50,000 · Arts & CultureREFRAME YOUTH ARTS CENTERCihuapactli Collective: $45,833 · Arts & CultureCihuapactli CollectiveFATHER MATTERS INC: $42,437 · Arts & CultureFATHER MATTERS INCDEATH PENALTY ALTERNATIVES FOR ARIZONA INC: $7,015 · Arts & CultureTigerMountain Foundation Inc: $73,635 · EnvironmentTigerMountain …VOTER CHOICE ARIZONA: $47,483 · Public BenefitVOTER CHO…DEEP WITHIN REHAB CENTER INC: $33,782 · HealthARIZONANS FOR RATIONAL SEX OFFENSE LAWS: $29,646 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - PHOENIX: $17,188 · Youth DevelopmentMelabiz Community Hub: $15,476 · Community Improvement
Human Services$220,416Arts & Culture$145,285Environment$73,635Public Benefit$47,483Health$33,782Other$29,646Youth Development$17,188Community Improvement$15,476

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNLIMITED POTENTIAL INC: $95,262 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN FATHERHOOD & FAMILIES ASSOCIATION: $52,154 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetREFRAME YOUTH ARTS CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetVOTER CHOICE ARIZONA: $47,483 over 2y, 24% of budgetFATHER MATTERS INC: $42,437 over 1y, 11% of budgetDEEP WITHIN REHAB CENTER INC: $33,782 over 1y, 4.1% 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…The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Just Communities Arizona funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Just Communities Arizona. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Just Communities Arizona?

    Find your warmest path to Just Communities 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 13 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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