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LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION
LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION lfaf provides community and economic development programs and support to the people, businesses, and neighborhoods of communities throughout arizona.
$256k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
1
Communities
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
small businessbusiness reliefcovid smallphx sunssuns small
2021
small businessbusiness relief
2022
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CAHOKIA$30,000
- ORGS UNDER THE REPORTING THRESHOLD$14,316
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, 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.
1
Arizona Bioindustry Association Inc
Azbio supports the needs of arizona's growing life science ecosystem.
Community Improvement
2
Arizona Urban Agriculture Foundation
Food & Nutrition
3
Arizona Regional Economic Development Foundation
Arizona Regional Economic Development Foundation AREDF was incorporated in 1985 to create a thriving, sustainable economy.
Community Improvement
4
Arizona Forward Association
Arizona Forward brings business and civic leaders together to promote cooperative efforts to improve the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of our state and local regions.
Community Improvement
5
Arizona Wins
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans.
Civil Rights
6
Ymca of Southern Arizona
The ymca of southern arizona is dedicated to improving the quality of human life and to helping all people realize their fullest potential through the development of spirit, mind and body.
Human Services
7
Chandler Chamber of Commerce
Community and Economic Development for the City of Chandler, Arizona
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8
Arizona Latin-American
Unclassified
9
Invision Az
Accelerate the growth of arizona's vibrant tech ecosystem by creating, promoting, and leading the framework that allows technology, innovation, and investment to flourish.
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10
Arizona Chamber of Commerce and
A statewide advocacy organization that advances arizona business and the arizona economy. the arizona chamber of commerce and industry is commited to advancing arizona's competitive position in the global economy by advocating free market…
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11
Yuma Community Food Bank
To relieve hunger, increase self-reliance and improve the quality of life for children and families throughout southwestern arizona.
Food & Nutrition
12
Local First Arizona Foundation
Local first arizona foundation lfaf provides community and economic development programs and support to the people, businesses, and neighborhoods of communities throughout arizona.
Community Improvement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuild Superior Inc and the most unlike its peers is Imani Stepps. 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
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$9,621,870Arts & Culture$58,749Community Improvement$40,000Environment$25,000Human Services$23,021Youth Development$17,458Recreation & Sports$15,864
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.
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.
YWCA of Southern ArizonaAZ19.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: YWCA of Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION 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.
2024
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MADISON BOXING GYM.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 813903130 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MADISON BOXING GYM, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 62% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Local First Arizona Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Local First Arizona Foundation 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.
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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