· Public charity
Phoenix Suns Charities Inc
Phoenix suns charities was founded in 1988 with the mission to benefit organizations that assist the needs of children and families in arizona.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 68 grants below total $3,073,736 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,174,072 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $100,336 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
- Under $10k7 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $938k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NBA FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA | $125,000 |
| BANNER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH & RESOURCE CENTER | $100,000 |
| SCIENCE OF SPORT | $92,400 |
| GIRLS SCOUTS-ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL | $80,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA | $75,000 |
| PHOENIX PARKS AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $71,875 |
| NEW LIFE CENTER | $66,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $51,417 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS | $50,000 |
| PHOENIX PARKS AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.8M) 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.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 69 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NBNATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +8%
- VOValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +43%
- PPPhoenix Parks Foundation7× · 2018–2025 · $611k · revenue +220% · 70% of their budget
Funded once
- PRPHOENIX RESIDENTIAL INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT EFFORTone grant, 2020 · $2.9M · revenue -94% · 52% of their budget
- NANORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +221%
- MMMCSO MASHone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -97%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.
The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.
Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
Advocates for the rights and participation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. together with our network of members and affiliated chapters, we improve systems of support, connect families, inspire communication,…
To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.
Home matters to arizona is the first statewide home matters initiative focused on a new generation of affordable housing, connected communities, and healthier individuals, families, and economies. we add housing units while encouraging…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ABILITY360 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colten Cowell Foundation. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
207 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. 207 of the 254 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX RESIDENTIAL INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT EFFORT ↗
- Who funds Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN PHOENIX INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds MCSO MASH ↗
- Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds EARTH & SPACE EXPEDITION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ABILITY360 INC ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE THUNDERBIRDS ↗
- Who funds BACK TO SCHOOL CLOTHING DRIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lights Camera Discover ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ACCEL ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds The Marcus Graham Project ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds GAP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS ↗
- Who funds GENESIS PROGRAM INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Fiesta Events Inc · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Valley of the Sun United Way · John F Long Foundation Inc · BHHS Legacy Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Executive Council Charities · Arizona Diamondbacks Foundationinc
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 Phoenix Suns Charities 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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.