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Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$610k
Granted FY2024still arriving
105
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.0MArts & Culture$33kYouth Development$32kRecreation & Sports$23kScience & Tech$9k
02FY2024 · 105 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k88 grants · $275k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $335k
$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST DAVID K-12$35,000
WILLCOX ELEMENTARY$34,109
ARIZONA ARTS ACADEMY$20,000
4-HFFA YOUTH$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
POMERENE K-8$20,000
VERITAS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$19,213
BENSON DIGITAL LEARNING CENTER$19,000
Individual grant recipient$17,600
PATAGONIA REGIONAL AQUATICS CENTER$15,889
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA SOUTH$15,000
COCHISE COLLEGE$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%WILLCOX ELEMENTARY: $34k → 15%BENSON CTE: $20k → 18%ELGIN ELEMENTARY: $20k → 19%WILLCOX MIDDLE SCHOOL: $4k → 15%BENSON ELEMENTARY: $20k → 18%WILLCOX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $3k → 15%BENSON DIGITAL LEARNING CENTER: $19k → 18%AZ YOUNG BIRDERS CAMP: $8k → 15%WILLCOX HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 15%POMERENE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $7k → 18%BENSON PRIMARY SCHOOL: $6k → 18%PATAGONIA REGIONAL AQUATICS CENTER: $16k → 19%BENSON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $4k → 18%PEARCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $3k → 18%POMERENE K-8: $20k → 18%BELLA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $2k → 18%VERITAS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $20k → 18%FIRST BAPTIST CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $19k → 18%COCHISE COLLEGE: $15k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA SOUTH: $15k → 18%COCHISE COLLEGE: $15k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA SOUTH: $15k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA SOUTH: $15k → 18%COCHISE COLLEGE: $15k → 18%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $12k → 18%UNIVERSITY SOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 18%UNIVERSITY SOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 18%UNIVERSITY SOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 18%CENTER FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS: $5k → 18%TOWN & COUNTRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $3k → 18%PUEBLO DEL SOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $2k → 18%AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $7k → 18%CORONADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $3k → 18%ARIZONA ARTS ACADEMY: $20k → 18%VERITAS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $2k → 18%HUACHUCA MOUNTAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $2k → 18%ST DAVID K-12: $35k → 18%SKILLS PRIVATE ACADEMY: $2k → 18%ST DAVID HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 18%4-HFFA YOUTH: $20k → 18%HUACHUCA CITY SCHOOL: $8k → 18%COCHISE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%SAN SIMON ELEMENTARY: $18k → 18%COCHISE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%SAN SIMON SCHOOL: $3k → 18%COCHISE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%ELFRIDA K-12 VALLEY UNION HS: $8k → 18%BOWIE ELEMENTARY: $7k → 18%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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$268k · 62 repeat orgs$849k to everyone else

62 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 89 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
131

Total granted

$268k
$311k

Still filing today

5%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $538k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA SOUTH
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k
  • CC
    COCHISE COLLEGE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k
  • US
    UNIVERSITY SOUTH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue -4%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
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
Veritas Academy of Tucson Incorporated

Private christian school

Education
2
Canyon View Academy

Operation of a private school.

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3
Arizona Cultural Academy

Academic, cultural, and religious

Education
4
Christian Academy of Prescott Inc

Non-profit christian education. cap's foremost goal, as a school, is to build competence in students through excellence in all academic disciplines and to develop a life long desire for learning. in addition to academics, cap endeavors to…

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5
Phoenix Montessori Academy

Providing education for grades kindergarten through twelfth grade and childcare for ages six months to four years.

Education
6
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
7
La Tierra Community School

To provide an active, transformative educational experience with respect for diversity, academic rigor, and a commitment to social environmental justice to approximately 140 students in kindergarten through eighth grade in prescott,…

Education
8
Telesis Center for Learning Inc

To provide students in kindergarten through twelfth grades with academic excellence through individualized instruction of a core curriculum supported by enrichment and acceleration.

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9
Cochise Community Development Corp

To be a collaborative academic community focused on scholar learning and achievement, and to set high expectations and provide each scholar with the essential tools to succeed.

Education
10
Ball Charter Schools (Val Vista)

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.

Education
11
Prescott Valley Charter School

To provide a safe, positive environment for all students with a strong focus on academic success, student leadership, parental involvement, and community partnership.

Education
12
Christian Scholarship Fund of Arizona

Provide scholarships to qualifying students at private schools.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Academic Success Inc; the most unlike its peers is Veritas Christian Community School. 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

8 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. 8 of the 283 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA SOUTH: $45,000 · OtherCOCHISE COLLEGE: $45,000 · OtherST DAVID K-12: $35,000 · OtherWILLCOX ELEMENTARY: $34,109 · Other+189 more: $804,687 · Other+189 moreCOCHISE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY SOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationAMERICAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $7,203 · EducationCENTER FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS INC: $5,450 · EducationVERITAS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $3,060 · EducationPatagonia Regional Aquatics Center: $15,889 · Public Safety & DisasterWillcox Theater and Arts Inc: $12,620 · Arts & Culture
Other$963,796Education$75,713Public Safety & Disaster$15,889Arts & Culture$12,620

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCOCHISE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY SOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPatagonia Regional Aquatics Center: $15,889 over 1y, 15% of budgetWillcox Theater and Arts Inc: $12,620 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $7,203 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS INC: $5,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERITAS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $3,060 over 4y, 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.

  • Who funds COCHISE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY SOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Patagonia Regional Aquatics Center ↗
  • Who funds Willcox Theater and Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS INC ↗

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.

The Legacy Foundation of Southeast ArizonaAZ15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 283 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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