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Mountain West Credit Union Foundation

The organization is operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes.

$279k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your 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 FY2017–2022.

Philanthropy$144kFood & Nutrition$100kHuman Services$77kInternational$67kHealth$50kMembership Benefit$22kHousing & Shelter$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $27,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $279,103 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $251,603 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.

$17,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CU FOUNDATION$17,500
WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS$10,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SO AZ: $25k → 15%NATIONAL CU FOUNDATION: $22k → 10%PUBLIC SERVICE CU: $5k → 3%COLUMBINE FCU: $21k → 8%COMMUNITY CHOICE CU: $17k → 10%COLORAMO FCU: $5k → 11%HAXTUN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $5k → 11%OLATHE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION: $5k → 12%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CRISIS PARTNERS: $50k → 12%WYOMING GOVERNORS RESIDENCE FOUNDAITON: $30k → 10%COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY: $5k → 14%DEER VALLEY CU: $21k → 11%UNITED WAY OF TUCSON AND SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $25k → 15%NATIONAL CU FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%CONSUMERS UNITED ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $25k → 11%NATIONAL CU FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $50k → 12%WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CUS: $17k → 10%NATIONAL CU FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%NATIONAL CU FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%NATIONAL CU FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CUS: $10k → 10%WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS: $10k → 10%WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CUS: $10k → 10%WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS: $10k → 10%WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS: $10k → 10%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 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
Gowest Credit Union Association

Provide products and services to arizona, colorado, idaho, oregon, washington and wyoming credit unions that enable credit unions to better serve their members.

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2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Elevations Credit Union

Together we create solutions for a better life.

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4
Community First Credit Union of Florida

Community first credit union of florida's mission is to provide the highest in quality financial solutions for every stage of life.

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5
Credit Unions in the State of California Sierra Central Credit Union

As your financial institution, we pledge to serve you and our community faithfully. we will be friendly, helpful, and professional, and we will provide great products and competitive rates.

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6
Credit Union of America

Provide lending, savings, and financial services for mutual purpose, including consumer loans, real estate loans, credit cards, savings and certificate accounts, investment options, and multiple methods for member access to their financial…

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7
Mountain West Credit Union Association

To protect, promote and perpetuate the credit union movement in arizona, colorado and wyoming.

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8
California Coast Credit Union

California coast credit union (credit union) is a cooperative, organized for the purpose of promoting thrift and savings among its members, creating a source of credit for them at rates of interest set by the board of directors, and…

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9
Sound Credit Union

A member owned cooperative providing financial services, including loans and share deposits to its members.

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10
Max Credit Union

Max is a state-chartered community credit union serving approximately 126,000 members in the montgomery, alabama and surrounding areas.

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11
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
12
Community Star Credit Union

To provide lending,savings, and other financial services to its qualifying members at terms generally better than available in the marketplace and with a service-based emphasis that recognizes the members status as owners.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of the Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Metro Crisis Services 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

12 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. 12 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $89,000 · OtherNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATIONWYOMING GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherWYOMING GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE FOUNDATIONCOLUMBINE FCU — $21,000 · OtherCOLUMBINE FCUDEER VALLEY CU — $20,950 · OtherDEER VALLEY CUCAMPCO FCU — $20,950 · OtherCAMPCO FCUCREDIT UNIONS CHARTERED IN THE STATE OF CO 240 COMMUNITY CHOICE CREDIT UNION — $16,760 · OtherCREDIT UNIONS CHARTERED IN THE STATE OF CO 240 COMMU…+7 more — $35,000 · Other+7 moreFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $50,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKI…Community Food Bank Inc — $25,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank In…ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $25,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK AL…WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC — $67,000 · InternationalWORLDWIDE FOUND…METRO CRISIS SERVICES INC — $50,000 · HealthMETRO CRISI…United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc — $25,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way …VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY — $25,000 · PhilanthropyVALLEY OF T…
Other$233,660Food & Nutrition$100,000International$67,000Health$50,000Philanthropy$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $89,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC — $67,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO CRISIS SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWYOMING GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREDIT UNIONS CHARTERED IN THE STATE OF CO 240 COMMUNITY CHOICE CREDIT UNION — $16,760 over 1y, 0.5% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 Mountain West Credit Union Foundation 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 20 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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