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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 FY2026(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2026
1
Organizations funded FY2025
100%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$233k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 100% of the organizations The Desert Foundation Auxiliary Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24’25
Housing & ShelterHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving2$40k100%
FY20251$50k100%
FY20242$40k100%
FY20221$15k100%
FY20212$20k0%
FY20202$20k100%
FY20192$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2026.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc$50,00012%
Miracle League of Arizona$30,0001n/a
Kid in the Corner$20,00018%
Gigis Playhouse Inc$20,0002n/a
Eldertlc Inc$20,000224%
The Joy Bus$20,00011%
The Foster Alliance$15,00010%
For the Love of Travis Inc$10,0001n/a
Azda Cares Foundation$10,0001n/a
Kids in Focus$10,00014%

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.

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

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.

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About The Desert Foundation Auxiliary Inc

How much does The Desert Foundation Auxiliary Inc give?
The Desert Foundation Auxiliary Inc reported 2 grants totaling $40,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does The Desert Foundation Auxiliary Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (29%), Housing & Shelter (24%), Human Services (17%).
Who are The Desert Foundation Auxiliary Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc ($50k), Miracle League of Arizona ($30k), Kid in the Corner ($20k).
Does The Desert Foundation Auxiliary Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Desert Foundation Auxiliary Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, American Express Foundation, BHHS Legacy Foundation.
Where is The Desert Foundation Auxiliary Inc based?
The Desert Foundation Auxiliary Inc is based in AZ.

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 10 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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