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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 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 2026.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%FOR THE LOVE OF TRAVIS: $10k → 11%GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE: $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
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 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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foster Alliance; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Desert Foundation Auxiliary Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Desert Foundation Auxiliary Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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, 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 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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