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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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 2022.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $27,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $279,103 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $251,603 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.
$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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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CUS: $10k → 10%WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS: $10k → 10%NATIONAL CU FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS: $10k → 10%WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CUS: $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
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 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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of the Rockies; 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 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. 12 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Mountain West Credit Union Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mountain West Credit Union Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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 20 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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