· Public charity
Kiwanis Club of Carefree Benefit Fd
To serve the children of the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $666,345 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,372,980 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $706,635 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
- $250k+1 grant · $261k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cave Creek Unified Education Found | $260,502 |
| Foothills Community Foundation | $71,691 |
| Annuciation Catholic Elementary Sch | $35,054 |
| Foothills Food Bank | $31,000 |
| Sonoran Arts League Inc | $25,815 |
| Desert Foothills Family YMCA | $25,000 |
| Jubilate Conservatory of Music | $22,238 |
| Foothills Caring Corps Inc | $20,274 |
| Neighbors in Need AZ | $20,000 |
| Our Lady of Joy Catholic Church | $17,500 |
| Desert Foothills Theater | $15,600 |
| Reigning Grace Ranch | $15,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club Greater Scottsd | $14,700 |
| Cave Creek Rodeo Days | $11,000 |
| Arizona Friends of Foster Children | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $718k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VOValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association7× · 2019–2025 · $464k · revenue +32%
- FCFOOTHILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2025 · $197k · revenue +33%
- JCJUBILATE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC6× · 2020–2025 · $173k · revenue +31% · 56% of their budget
Funded once
- DHDesert Hills Community Sch of Musicone grant, 2024 · $73k
- STSONORAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL PTOone grant, 2023 · $65k · revenue -75% · 54% of their budget
- FAFoothills Academyone grant, 2019 · $48k · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Canyons School District Education Foundation works in tandem with community and business partners to build support for public schools and to advance Canyons School Districts mission to help every student become college- and career-ready…
Provide youth football and cheer programs
The Queen Creek Education Foundation (QCSEF) parners with the communty and businesses to promote excellence through leadership in education. We encourage responsible citizenship by supplementing financial support for growth and learning…
Building a Legacy in Fountain Hills and the surrounding communities.The Fountain Hills Community Foundation is a 501 C3 investing in nonprofit organizations whose work improves the lives of our youth seniors families and community. FHCF…
To provide youth opportunities to explore the natural world, giving them outdoor experiences that will sustain and enrich their physical and mental well-being throughout their lives.
The Verde Valley Trail Fund (VVTF) was established as an Arizona non-profit corporation in 2021 by local citizens recognizing trail maintenance and enhancements are critical to the protection of our precious trails.
The primary purpose of this Arizona non-profit corporation is to receive, disburse and administer funds for charitable, civic and educational purposes which will promote the ideals of Rotary International.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoran Arts League Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carefree Cave Creek Chamber Foundation. 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.
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 18 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 59 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILATE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Foothills Caring Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds Sonoran Arts League Inc ↗
- Who funds Foothills Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SONORAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds Cave Creek Museum ↗
- Who funds Foothills Academy ↗
- Who funds SCOTT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCULLY LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rancho Milagro Foundation ↗
- Who funds DESERT FOOTHILLS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TENDER LITTLE HEARTS MINI TALES ↗
- Who funds CAVE CREEK RODEO DAYS ↗
- Who funds FLEDGING YOUTH LLC ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Retreat Center At Carefree Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds PURSE-IMPRESSIONS ↗
- Who funds Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAREFREE CAVE CREEK CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPRINTS OF HONOR ↗
- Who funds DESERT FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Reigning Grace Ranch ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Auxiliary of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale ↗
- Who funds Desert Foothills Choral Foundation ↗
- Who funds RANCHO TIERRA MADRA CORP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Robert D Fisher Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation · Irving & Arline Gordon Memorial Fdn · The Jack Ingebritson Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc
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 Kiwanis Club of Carefree Benefit Fd 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.
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.
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