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The Desert Foundation Auxiliary Inc

To raise money in support of charitible, scientific, literary and educational organizations through the presentation of young ladies from the city of scottsdale and surrounding areas

$40k
Granted FY2026still arriving
2
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192026.

Health$60kHousing & Shelter$50kHuman Services$35kRecreation & Sports$30kFood & Nutrition$20kYouth Development$10k
02FY2026 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$233k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIRACLE LEAGUE OF AZ$30,000
AZDA CARES FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KIDS IN FOCUS: $10k → 11%ROSIE'S HOUSE: $50k → 11%KID IN THE CORNER: $20k → 11%ELDERTLC: $10k → 11%ELDERTLC: $10k → 11%AZDA CARES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE: $10k → 11%GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE: $10k → 11%FOR THE LOVE OF TRAVIS: $10k → 11%THE JOY BUS: $20k → 11%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF AZ: $30k → 11%ARIZONA HELPING HANDS: $15k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Foster 360

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

Human Services
2
Pro-Choice Arizona

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…

Health
3
Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc

Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children provides social, emotional, and financial support to families managing the health and well-being of a loved one with pediatric cancer.

Public Benefit
4
Arizona Wins

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…

Civil Rights
5
Disability Rights Arizona

DRAZ is a non-profit law firm that assists Arizonans with disabilities to promote and protect their legal rights to independence, justice, and equality.

Civil Rights
6
Sports Kidz Az Inc

Sports kidz az serve communities throughout arizona by providing athletics to homeschooled families, after school athletes, and underprivileged youth. we are devoted to using athletics as a tool to reach and train the next generation,…

Youth Development
7
Free Guitars 4 Kids

FG4K provides free guitars to students who might otherwise be unable to experience the joy and tangible benefits that owning a musical instrument provides.

Arts & Culture
8
Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation

Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation creates opportunities to build self-esteem and empower children and youth in foster care by funding social, athletic and educational activities and services to enrich their life experiences and…

Human Services
9
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
Mikid-Mentally Ill Kids in Distress

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

11
Arizona Diaper Bank

We promote dignity through community partnerships by making diapers, period products, and incontinence supplies accessible.

Religion
12
Arizona Caregiver Coalition Inc

To improve the quality of life for family caregivers across arizona through collaborative partnerships, advocacy, resources, and respite support.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foster Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Eldertlc 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterRosies House A Music Academ…GIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC — $20,000 · OtherGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INCELDERTLC INC — $20,000 · OtherELDERTLC INCFOR THE LOVE OF TRAVIS INC — $10,000 · OtherFOR THE LOVE OF TRAVIS INCMIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsMIRACLE LEAGUE O…KID IN THE CORNER — $20,000 · HealthKID IN THE CORNE…AZDA CARES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthAZDA CARES FOUND…THE JOY BUS — $20,000 · Food & NutritionTHE JOY BUSTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE — $15,000 · EducationKids in Focus — $10,000 · Youth Development
Housing & Shelter$50,000Other$50,000Recreation & Sports$30,000Health$30,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Education$15,000Youth Development$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKID IN THE CORNER — $20,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetELDERTLC INC — $20,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTHE JOY BUS — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKids in Focus — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budget
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.

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ22.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Ibis Foundation of Arizona co Casey LeSueur Getz CPAs PLLC · Fiesta Events Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 The Desert Foundation Auxiliary 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.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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