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Mesa United Way Inc

United we fight for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in Mesa.

$477k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

International$3.0MPhilanthropy$2.5MHuman Services$1.8MHealth$716kFood & Nutrition$562kHousing & Shelter$409kEducation$298kYouth Development$189kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $460,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $477,366 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,366 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

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$115,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AZURA INC$300,000
FOSTER360$115,000
La Mesa Ministries$45,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $3.7M) 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.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY ABUSE: $8k → 11%ARIZONA REFUGEE EMERGENCY FUND: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY ABUSE: $5k → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $6k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS - GRAND CANYON CHAPTER: $7k → 11%FOSTERING HEROES FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%AZURA INC: $2.7M → 11%AZURA INC: $300k → 11%FOSTER360: $115k → 11%EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES: $54k → 11%ASTER AGING INC (FKA EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES INC): $50k → 11%ASTER AGING INC: $50k → 11%EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES: $47k → 11%MARC CENTER OF MESA INC: $43k → 11%EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES: $42k → 11%MARC COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $28k → 11%OAKWOOD CREATIVE CARE INC: $8k → 11%MARC COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $8k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $11k → 11%MARC COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $8k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6k → 11%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS: $30k → 11%MESA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $45k → 11%MESA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $11k → 11%MESA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $5k → 11%EAST VALLEY FIREFIGHTERS CHARITIES FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES: $53k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES: $23k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES: $10k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES: $7k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.4M · 33 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
18

Total granted

$8.4M
$898k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+6%

Still filing today

94%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

  • AN
    A NEW LEAF
    5× · 2017–2021 · $451k · revenue +144%
  • AB
    ARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $267k · revenue +39%
  • AA
    ASTER AGING INC (FKA EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES INC)
    5× · 2017–2021 · $242k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • HH
    Helens Hope Chest
    one grant, 2021 · $682k · revenue +6% · 53% of their budget
  • FH
    FOSTERING HEROES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • AT
    AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

—
2
Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health
3
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
4
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
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. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
6
100 Club of Arizona

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.

—
7
Family Promise - Greater Phoenix

Enable families on the precipice of homelessness, or currently experiencing homelessness, to sustain or gain employment, independent housing and self-sufficiency.

Religion
8
Central Arizona Shelter Services Inc

The Organizations mission is to prevent and end homelessness among individuals and families while advancing compassionate community solutions.

Housing & Shelter
9
Against Abuse Inc

To provide services, support, and education to all who experience the effects of family dysfunction and/or violence, past and present.

Human Services
10
Christian Care Mesa Iii

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve

Housing & Shelter
11
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
12
Azcend

AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf and the most unlike its peers is College Bound. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVeterans Service Organizati…Animal Rescue and Shelter S…Children's Health & Wellnes…Charter School NetworksJewish Community Organizati…Arizona Advocacy & Leadersh…Community Health & Support …Donor-Advised Funds & Famil…Senior Residential CarePrivate School Tuition Scho…Family Support & Youth Serv…Food Access & Hunger ReliefHomeless & At-Risk Support …
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%9%<5yr17%2%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr14%9%20–35yr10%27%35–55yr10%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%34%<5yr17%1%5–10yr20%39%10–20yr14%1%20–35yr10%20%35–55yr10%6%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 34% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/53
the rest of the field
17%
2,922/17,000

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 53 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AZURA INC — $2,959,626 · Human ServicesAZURA INCASTER AGING INC (FKA EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES INC) — $241,976 · Human ServicesASTER AGING INC (FKA EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOUR…+14 more — $607,168 · Human Services+14 moreMESA UNITED WAY INC — $2,307,031 · PhilanthropyMESA UNITED WAY INCHelens Hope Chest — $681,599 · PhilanthropyHelens Hope ChestCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC — $164,882 · PhilanthropyMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $146,615 · Philanthropy+1 more — $8,352 · PhilanthropyARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC — $267,269 · Food & NutritionUnited Food Bank — $198,862 · Food & NutritionPaz De Cristo Community Center — $88,277 · Food & NutritionJOHN 1334 MINISTRIES — $50,735 · Food & NutritionCHILD CRISIS CENTER — $358,883 · OtherCHILD CRI…St Joseph the Worker — $73,006 · OtherSt Joseph…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC — $57,964 · OtherBOYS & GI…THE SALVATION ARMY — $29,133 · OtherGRAND CANYON COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $28,265 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA — $42,084 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC — $30,323 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST — $69,168 · OtherLUTHERAN …COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES — $41,543 · Other+8 more — $67,488 · Other+8 moreA NEW LEAF — $451,452 · HealthCOMMUNITY BRIDGES INC — $27,100 · HealthHacienda Inc — $25,464 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN — $20,859 · Health+1 more — $13,000 · HealthSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA — $240,605 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF REFUGE INC — $95,621 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $8,000 · Housing & ShelterMesa Public Schools Foundation — $94,514 · EducationKIDS NEED TO READ — $25,016 · EducationCollege Bound — $22,547 · Education
Human Services$3,808,770Philanthropy$3,308,479Food & Nutrition$605,143Other$797,857Health$537,875Housing & Shelter$344,226Education$142,077

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAZURA INC — $2,959,626 over 2y, 57% of budgetMESA UNITED WAY INC — $2,307,031 over 4y, 15% of budgetHelens Hope Chest — $681,599 over 1y, 53% of budgetA NEW LEAF — $451,452 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC — $267,269 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetASTER AGING INC (FKA EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES INC) — $241,976 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA — $240,605 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUnited Food Bank — $198,862 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC — $164,882 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $146,615 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetFOSTER 360 — $115,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $97,762 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSE OF REFUGE INC — $95,621 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMesa Public Schools Foundation — $94,514 over 4y, 15% of budgetOAKWOOD CREATIVE CARE INC — $88,835 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPaz De Cristo Community Center — $88,277 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetMARC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $86,124 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Joseph the Worker — $73,006 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST — $69,168 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMESA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK INCORPORATED — $60,279 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC — $57,964 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJOHN 1334 MINISTRIES — $50,735 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA — $42,084 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES — $41,543 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC — $30,323 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTERING HEROES FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetAID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA — $29,875 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGRAND CANYON COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $28,265 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY BRIDGES INC — $27,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHacienda Inc — $25,464 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS — $25,238 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKIDS NEED TO READ — $25,016 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCollege Bound — $22,547 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetCIRCLE THE CITY — $21,674 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN — $20,859 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAST VALLEY FIREFIGHTER CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC — $20,204 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY ABUSE — $13,050 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHEAL THE HERO FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA — $10,680 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY — $8,352 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR RESCUE — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResurrection Street Ministry Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $7,452 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association — $6,138 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $5,537 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALTERED TAILS — $5,522 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Arizona Community Fou…Thunderbirds CharitiesVirginia G Piper Char…Valley of the Sun Uni…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…United Food BankSt Mary's Food Bank A…Otto & Edna Neely Fou…Phoenix Suns Charitie…The Foundation for Co…Arizona Cardinals Fou…The Diane and Bruce H…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ53.8× affinity29 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 · Valley of the Sun United Way · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · United Food Bank · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · Otto & Edna Neely Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Arizona Cardinals Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle 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 organization Mesa United Way 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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