· Public charity
Mesa Ho Ho Kam Foundation Inc
Raise and hold funds to support and contribute to youth sports in mesa, arizona
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $313,293 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $486,393 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $173,100 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $139k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO CUBS CHARITIES | $123,322 |
| MESA HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $29,000 |
| AJGA HEATHER FARR CLASSIC | $25,000 |
| MESA ASSN SPORTS FOR DISABLED | $20,000 |
| OAKLAND A'S COMMUNITY FUND | $19,938 |
| GENE LEWIS BOXING | $12,500 |
| NEPTUNE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| SAVANNAH BANANAS FOSTER | $10,133 |
| MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| AZ FLAMES TRACK CLUB | $7,500 |
| CORBINS LEGACY | $7,000 |
| BALLET ETUDES | $6,900 |
| A NEW LEAF | $6,000 |
| AZ BRAIN FOOD | $6,000 |
| MESA HIGH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +43% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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 Association4× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue +43%
- MAMESA ASSOCIATION OF SPORTS FOR THE DISABLED INC7× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +29%
- TOTHE OAKLAND ATHLETICS COMMUNITY FUND5× · 2018–2024 · $91k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- SCSeton Catholic Preparatoryone grant, 2021 · $19k
- CCCHILD CRISIS ARIZONAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +151%
- AIABILITY360 INCone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +20%
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.
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. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
Ymca of southern arizona is dedicated to improving the quality of human life and helping all people realize their fullest potential through the development of spirit, mind and body. we are a powerful association of men, women and children,…
Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.
The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.
It is the mission of asa to foster the physical, mental, and emotional growth and development of the state of arizonas youth through the sport of soccer at all levels, ages, and competition levels.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
Easterseals blake foundation is dedicated to the vision of a southern arizona community where all people live healthy, productive, and independent lives. ebf serves more than 40,000 individuals and families across 10 counties of southern…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ABILITY360 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Neptune Swimming Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 29 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.
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- Who funds MESA ASSOCIATION OF SPORTS FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND ATHLETICS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GENE LEWIS BOXING CLUB LLC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BRIDGES INC ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET ETUDES ↗
- Who funds MESA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds NEPTUNE SWIMMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MESA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD CREATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CORBINS LEGACY ↗
- Who funds Helens Hope Chest ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF ↗
- Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds BANANAS FOSTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY360 INC ↗
- Who funds ASTER AGING INC (FKA EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES INC) ↗
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: Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · Mesa Sports Association Inc · Mesa United Way Inc · United Food Bank · Kids Need to Read · Mercy Care · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Dignity Health · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Mesa Ho Ho Kam Foundation Inc 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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