Arizona · Public charity
Mesa United Way Inc
United we fight for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in Mesa.
- $477k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $460k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $115,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Mesa United Way Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $460k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $2.7M | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $30k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $983k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $1.2M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $1.2M | 5% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $1.3M | 13% |
| FY2017 | 34 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azura Inc | $2,959,626 | 2 | 57% |
| Mesa United Way Inc | $2,307,031 | 4 | 15% |
| Helens Hope Chest | $681,599 | 1 | 53% |
| A New Leaf | $451,452 | 5 | 1% |
| Child Crisis Center | $358,883 | 4 | n/a |
| Arizona Brainfood Inc | $267,269 | 5 | 9% |
| Aster Aging Inc (Fka East Valley Adult Resources Inc) | $241,976 | 5 | 2% |
| Save the Family Foundation of Arizona | $240,605 | 4 | 1% |
| United Food Bank | $198,862 | 3 | 0% |
| Maricopa County Community College District Foundation | $146,615 | 4 | 2% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Mesa United Way Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Mesa United Way Inc
- How much does Mesa United Way Inc give?
- Mesa United Way Inc reported 3 itemized grants totaling $460,000, out of $477,366 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Mesa United Way Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (31%), Philanthropy (26%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are Mesa United Way Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Azura Inc ($3.0M), Mesa United Way Inc ($2.3M), Helens Hope Chest ($682k).
- Does Mesa United Way Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mesa United Way Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Thunderbirds Charities, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust.
- Where is Mesa United Way Inc based?
- Mesa United Way Inc is based in AZ.
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