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The Board of Visitors

The mission of THE BOARD OF VISITORS is to serve the healthcare needs of women, children and the elderly in the metropolitan phoenix area.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$245k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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 2025.

Health$6.9MHuman Services$630kCrime & Legal$360kYouth Development$265kHousing & Shelter$210kEducation$92kReligion$85kInternational$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $315k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $760k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BANNER HEALTH FOUNDATION-THE BIG PINK BUS$245,000
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL ARIZONA$175,000
VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
HUSHABYE NURSERY$75,000
CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA$60,000
ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION$55,000
WOMEN'S HEALTH INNOVATIONS OF ARIZONA$50,000
PHOENIX RESCUE MISSION$45,000
HOMELESS YOUTH CONNECTION$40,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$40,000
THE BOARD OF VISITORS RYAN HOUSE$35,000
OCJ KIDS$30,000
SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH & RESOURCE CENTER$30,000
ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR HEARING IMPAIRED (DBA DESERT VOICES)$25,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ARIZONA$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAVING AMY: $15k → 11%HUSHABYE NURSERY: $25k → 11%MAGGIE'S PLACE: $50k → 11%ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $55k → 11%ryan house: $50k → 11%st josephs foundation: $50k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $50k → 11%THE BOARD OF VISITORS RYAN HOUSE: $50k → 11%ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%THE BOARD OF VISITORS RYAN HOUSE: $50k → 11%THE BOARD OF VISITORS RYAN HOUSE: $50k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $40k → 11%ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%THE BOARD OF VISITORS RYAN HOUSE: $35k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $25k → 11%EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES: $25k → 11%catholic charities: $20k → 11%ASTER AGING INC: $15k → 11%ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED: $50k → 11%RAISING SPECIAL KIDS: $20k → 11%RAISING SPECIAL KIDS: $20k → 11%Raising special kids: $15k → 11%STARS: $25k → 11%STARS: $15k → 11%OCJ KIDS: $30k → 11%MISSION OF MERCY: $75k → 11%MISSION OF MERCY: $70k → 11%mission of mercy: $68k → 11%MISSION OF MERCY: $65k → 11%MISSION OF MERCY INC: $50k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $25k → 11%WOMEN'S HEALTH INNOVATIONS OF ARIZONA: $50k → 11%AUDREY'S ANGELS: $5k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $40k → 11%HUSHABYE NURSERY: $75k → 11%HUSHABYE NURSERY: $25k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR LIVING: $50k → 11%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 33 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
33

Total granted

$7.0M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+40%

Still filing today

97%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalReligionEducationOther
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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +69%
  • BH
    Banner Health Foundation
    3× · 2019–2025 · $569k · revenue +108%
  • VH
    VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $467k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • HF
    HONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $180k · revenue +41%
  • H
    HONORHEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $136k · revenue +59%
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $132k · revenue +98%
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's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services
2
Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services

The children's clinics provides a family centered comprehensive medical home to meet the special needs of children and families.

Health
3
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
4
Adelante Healthcareinc

Mission: cultivate health by supporting individuals and the community at every step of their journey. vision: lead a future in which accessible, high-quality care sets the standard for all. adelante healthcare, a federally qualified health…

Health
5
Banner Health

Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".

Health
6
Southwest Colorado Mental Health Center Inc

To make a meaningful difference through healthcare innovation and caring for the whole person.

Health
7
Northern Arizona Healthcare Corporation

Improving health, healing people.

Health
8
Foster 360

Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.

Human Services
9
The Centers for Habilitationtch

Finding creative and innovative ways to provide hope and purpose for individuals with disabilities.

Employment
10
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
11
Mikid-Mentally Ill Kids in Distress

Mikid improves the behavioral health and wellness of children and youth through a family-centered approach.

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12
Flagstaff Medical Center

Improving health, healing people.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Cerebral Palsy Association; the most unlike its peers is Leukemia Foundation for Arizonas Children. 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

70 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. 70 of the 72 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
44/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $1,319,600 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDRENBanner Health Foundation: $568,500 · HealthBanner Health FoundationVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $466,790 · HealthVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATIONBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $435,000 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATIONUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION: $276,800 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATIONBRIGHTER WAY INSTITUTE: $260,000 · HealthBRIGHTER WAY INSTITUTEHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $180,000 · HealthTECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA: $154,000 · Health+16 more: $850,410 · Health+16 moreMISSION OF MERCY INC: $328,200 · Human ServicesMISSION OF MERCY INCRYAN HOUSE: $325,000 · Human ServicesRYAN HOUSEST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $265,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATI…HUSHABYE NURSERY: $125,000 · Human ServicesHUSHABYE NURSERYMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesEncircle Families: $55,000 · Human Services+12 more: $390,000 · Human Services+12 moreSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $155,000 · OtherSOUTHWEST HU…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN PHOENIX INC: $137,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS…CENTRAL ARIZONA DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $135,000 · OtherCENTRAL ARIZ…Brain Injury Alliance of Arizona: $70,000 · OtherBrain Injury…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC: $55,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS…SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherUPWARD FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $45,000 · OtherDUET PARTNERS IN HEALTH & AGING INC: $40,000 · OtherORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED: $65,000 · OtherORAL EDUCATI…ACCEL: $35,300 · OtherADVANCE COMMUNITY: $50,000 · Other+7 more: $136,000 · Other+7 moreCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $295,000 · Crime & LegalSTREETLIGHTUSA: $215,000 · Crime & LegalHOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $108,500 · Crime & LegalDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $236,000 · ReligionPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $195,000 · ReligionNeighborhood Ministries Inc: $45,000 · ReligionHomeless Youth Connection Inc: $215,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $90,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMEWARD BOUND: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterFIRST PLACE AZ: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$4,511,100Human Services$1,558,200Other$973,300Crime & Legal$618,500Religion$476,000Youth Development$215,000Housing & Shelter$215,000

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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $1,319,600 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $568,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $466,790 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $435,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC: $328,200 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetRYAN HOUSE: $325,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $295,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION: $276,800 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $265,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBRIGHTER WAY INSTITUTE: $260,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $236,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTREETLIGHTUSA: $215,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHomeless Youth Connection Inc: $215,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $195,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $155,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA: $154,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN PHOENIX INC: $137,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHONORHEALTH: $136,410 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $132,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUSHABYE NURSERY: $125,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFEEDING MATTERS INC: $113,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $108,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetThe Devereux Foundation: $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $90,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBrain Injury Alliance of Arizona: $70,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED: $65,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND: $60,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEncircle Families: $55,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $54,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADVANCE COMMUNITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWOMENS HEALTH INNOVATIONS OF ARIZONA: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFSL PROGRAMS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUPWARD FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $45,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNeighborhood Ministries Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASTER AGING INC (FKA EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES INC): $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSaavi Services for the Blind: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDUET PARTNERS IN HEALTH & AGING INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSCOTTSDALE TRAINING & REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetACCEL: $35,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOCJ KIDS: $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Thunderbirds CharitiesArizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…BHHS Legacy FoundationPhoenix Suns Charitie…The Foundation for Co…John F Long Foundatio…Valley of the Sun Uni…American Express Foun…The Diane and Bruce H…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Fiesta Events Inc
Thunderbirds CharitiesAZ89.4× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thunderbirds Charities · Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · John F Long Foundation Inc · Valley of the Sun United Way · American Express Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Fiesta Events Inc

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 The Board of Visitors funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Board of Visitors. Bigger dots raise more.

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’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
    24report 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 72 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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