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Mesa United Way Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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 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 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $460,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $477,366 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,366 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 · 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

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 (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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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 Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
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.

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3
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
4
Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
5
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
6
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
7
Azcend

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

Human Services
8
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
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
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.

—
11
Usvets - Arizona

The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.

Housing & Shelter
12
Arizona's Children Association

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

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 53 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
33/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetResurrection Street Ministry Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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…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

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 Mesa United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mesa United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    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 53 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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