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Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative Inc

Provide safe, reliable, and affordable service to our members.

$290k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$107kYouth Development$106kCommunity Improvement$77kArts & Culture$51kEducation$38kInternational$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$15k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $72,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $289,538 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $216,788 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

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$376M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SKY ISLANDS REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP$30,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SIERRA VISTA INC$16,500
COCHISE FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC DBA LORI'S PLACE$15,000
SCCFRA FOUNDATION INC$6,000
FMWR$5,250
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 (FY25–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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%COCHISE FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC DBA LORI'S PLACE: $15k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 88%.

Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$388k · 8 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$388k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+31%

Still filing today

50%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club of Sierra Vista Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +128%
  • TC
    Tucson Conquistadores Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $54k · revenue +48%
  • WT
    Willcox Theater and Arts Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • ME
    MCNEAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • MJ
    MESCAL J6 FIRE DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • SS
    SULPHUR SPRINGS VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +31%
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 Railroad Historical Society
Arts & Culture
2
Prescott Valley Chamber of Commerce

To develop, promote and preserve the general business and community interests served by the organization.

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3
San Bernardino Valley Concert Association
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4
San Luis Valley Rural Electric Cooperative Inc

Sales of Electric power to Members. We had 13,355 meters in place at the end of 2024.

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5
The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Colter Pass Cooke City Silver Gate Chamber of Commerce

Chamber of commerce - to promote the city and surrounding area by providing customers with information about the city and surrounding areas

Community Improvement
7
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
8
San Pasqual Athletic Booster Assoc
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9
Bisbee Council on the Arts and Humanities

Through the operation of museums and support of historic preservation we will attempt to interpret and conserve our historical and cultural heritage. Through the presentation and support of cultural and educational programs we will attempt…

Arts & Culture
10
Spokane Turbine Center Dba Parkwater Foundation
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11
Tri State Rodeo Association Shelby W Bearden
Recreation & Sports
12
Copper Valley Electric Association Commu
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Sierra Vista Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SKY ISLANDS REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP: $101,068 · OtherSKY ISLANDS REGIONAL PARTNERSHIPCOCHISE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $37,700 · OtherCOCHISE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONWHERE THEY BUCK: $30,851 · OtherWHERE THEY BUCKCIVIL VISION INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · OtherCIVIL VISION INTERNATIONAL INCMCNEAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20,000 · OtherMCNEAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICTIFMWRF COMMERCIAL SPONSORSHIP: $15,250 · OtherMESCAL J6 FIRE DISTRICT: $15,000 · OtherSULPHUR SPRINGS VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION INC: $14,400 · OtherPOSITIVE IMAGE SPORTS MARKETING & PROMOTIONS: $11,308 · Other+4 more: $23,000 · Other+4 moreBoys and Girls Club of Sierra Vista Inc: $107,990 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Club of Si…Tucson Conquistadores Inc: $54,250 · Community ImprovementTucson Conqu…Willcox Theater and Arts Inc: $21,160 · Arts & CultureCOCHISE FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC dba LORIS PLACE: $15,000 · Human Services
Other$288,577Youth Development$107,990Community Improvement$54,250Arts & Culture$21,160Human Services$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys and Girls Club of Sierra Vista Inc: $107,990 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetSKY ISLANDS REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP: $101,068 over 8y, 10% of budgetTucson Conquistadores Inc: $54,250 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWillcox Theater and Arts Inc: $21,160 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSULPHUR SPRINGS VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION INC: $14,400 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSanta Cruz County Fair Rodeo Assoc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 Boys and Girls Club of Sierra Vista Inc ↗
  • Who funds SKY ISLANDS REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Tucson Conquistadores Inc ↗
  • Who funds Willcox Theater and Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds COCHISE FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC dba LORIS PLACE ↗
  • Who funds SULPHUR SPRINGS VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Santa Cruz County Fair Rodeo Assoc ↗
  • Who funds REX ALLEN DAYS 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The Legacy Foundation of Southeast ArizonaAZ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona

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 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    2report 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 17 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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