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· Public charity
KIDS NEED TO READ
Providing books to children and organizations that serve children, especially disadvantaged children.
$696k
Granted FY2025
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01What you fund
01FY2025
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $695,649.
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Median grant
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States reached
$805k
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Arizona Latino Leaders in Education
We exist to ensure that individuals from the communities most impacted by education inequities are the ones making decisions for all students
Education
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Lead Charter Schools
Educate students by operating an arizona charter school.
Education
3
Arizona School Boards Association Inc
Promoting community volunteer governance of public education and continuous improvement of student success by providing leadership and assistance to public school governing boards.
Education
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Ball Charter Schools (Val Vista)
Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.
Education
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Catholic Education Arizona
We provide scholarships to underserved children to change lives, serve (cont. on sch o)
Education
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Arizona Language Preparatory
The schools mission is to provide a quality education using a tri-lingual curriculum forkingergarten through 6th grade students.
Education
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Arizona Association for the Education of
AzAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate and work on…
Education
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Vista Charter Public Schools Inc
At vista, students master core subjects through the power of applying knowledge in a real-world context. in addition to rigorous academics, our schools focus on increased proficiency in crucial areas such as critical thinking, problem…
Education
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Ball Charter Schools(Dobson)
Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.
Education
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International School of Arizona
Opening doors to success in a constantly changing world
Education
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Leading Edge Academy Queen Creek
Educational services to students in queen creek, az and surrounding communities.
Education
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Arizona Community Foundation
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foster Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Amanecer Community Counseling Service. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%5/196
the rest of the field
11%
206,160/1,819,369
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
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.
Arizona Community FoundationAZ50.6× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Arizona Food Bank Network · Arizona Diamondbacks Foundationinc · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · United Food Bank · A for Arizona · Fiesta Events Inc · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust
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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Kids Need to Read?
Find your warmest path to Kids Need to Read through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines