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McDowell Mountain Music Festival Inc

Organizing and promoting music festivals, concerts, and similar music appreciation activities among family members, and promoting music's role in the creation and definition of arizona's culture and education.

$692k
Granted FY2023
21
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$100k
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 2023.

Health$1.2MHousing & Shelter$513kRecreation & Sports$83kEducation$65kArts & Culture$50kHuman Services$30kReligion$25kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2023 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $600,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $692,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $92,000 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 · FY2023

  • $10k–50k17 grants · $243k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $358k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$100,000
PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
COWTOWN SKATE$82,500
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC$75,000
ARTLINK INC$27,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA INC$25,000
CIRCLE THE CITY$20,000
TEEN LIFELINE$20,000
SAVING AMY INC$18,000
FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA$15,000
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE$15,000
ROOSEVELT ROW COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMT CORP$12,000
MCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY$10,000
MENTORKIDS USA$10,000
HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY$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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $78k) 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%SAVING AMY INC: $18k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $20k → 12%CIRCLE THE CITY: $10k → 12%NOT MY KID INC: $10k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $10k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $10k → 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 9 repeat orgs$405k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$1.6M
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesReligionCrime & LegalFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation
    7× · 2017–2023 · $725k · revenue +64%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA
    6× · 2018–2023 · $390k · revenue +920%
  • CT
    CIRCLE THE CITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • UN
    UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +23%
  • BC
    BACKLINE CARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +66%
  • N
    NOTMYKID
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
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
Arizona's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services
2
Phoenix Children's Hospital

To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.

Health
3
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
4
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
5
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
6
Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services

The children's clinics provides a family centered comprehensive medical home to meet the special needs of children and families.

Health
7
Banner Health

Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".

Health
8
City Help Inc of Phoenix

Our mission is to reach in and mine the incredible potential we believe lies within the lives of at-risk youth, the homeless, and needy families of our community by restoring hope and allowing them to dream again.

Human Services
9
Adelante Healthcareinc

Mission: cultivate health by supporting individuals and the community at every step of their journey. vision: lead a future in which accessible, high-quality care sets the standard for all. adelante healthcare, a federally qualified health…

Health
10
Onward Hope Incorporated

We are committed to improving and assisting the successful transition of at-risk young people to independent adulthood and supporting resilient families, by connecting them to resources.

Human Services
11
Mikid-Mentally Ill Kids in Distress

Mikid improves the behavioral health and wellness of children and youth through a family-centered approach.

—
12
Creighton Community Foundation

Creighton community foundation's (ccf) core program "community works" leverages neighborhood schools to support vibrant communities in the poorest parts of urban phoenix, where neighborhoods suffer from poverty- driven disadvantage and…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Gospel Mission; the most unlike its peers is Backline Care Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $725,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital FoundationBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $355,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC+4 more: $70,000 · Health+4 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA: $390,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHER…ARTLINK INC: $27,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $25,000 · OtherTeen Lifeline Inc: $20,000 · Other+9 more: $97,000 · Other+9 moreCOWTOWN SKATE: $82,500 · Recreation & SportsCIRCLE THE CITY: $30,000 · Human ServicesHospice of the Valley: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAVING AMY INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesNOTMYKID: $10,000 · Human ServicesUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterTeach for America Inc: $40,000 · EducationDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $15,000 · ReligionMentorKids USA: $10,000 · ReligionPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $10,000 · Religion
Health$1,150,000Other$559,500Recreation & Sports$82,500Human Services$78,000Housing & Shelter$75,000Education$40,000Religion$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $725,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA: $390,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $355,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOWTOWN SKATE: $82,500 over 1y, 26% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE THE CITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTLINK INC: $27,500 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Support Community Arizona: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBACKLINE CARE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTeen Lifeline Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING AMY INC: $18,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoosevelt Row Community Development Corporation: $12,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNOTMYKID: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMentorKids USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLAGSTAFF: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCULTURAL COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKITCHEN ON THE STREET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Thunderbirds CharitiesVirginia G Piper Char…The Foundation for Co…American Express Foun…John F Long Foundatio…The Diane and Bruce H…The Board of VisitorsGarcia Family Foundat…Mc Companies - Sharin…Phoenix Suns Charitie…The Yelp Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ29.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · American Express Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · The Board of Visitors · Garcia Family Foundation · Mc Companies - Sharing the Good Life Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · The Yelp 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 McDowell Mountain Music Festival Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McDowell Mountain Music Festival Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 29 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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