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Three Desert Winds Foundation at a glance

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Three Desert Winds Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$146k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$343kHealth$244kFood & Nutrition$217kRecreation & Sports$53kAnimals$40kHousing & Shelter$38kArts & Culture$17kInternational$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCE$60,000
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE$40,000
CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC$15,000
PHOENIX RESCUE MISSION$10,000
HOMEWORTHY$10,000
RYAN HOUSE$3,000
ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY$2,000
ONE WORLD CHILDRENS FUND$2,000
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST$2,000
TWO PUPS WELLNESS FUND$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOMEWORTHY: $10k → 11%HOMEWORTHY: $10k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $63k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $2k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $52k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $52k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $50k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $12k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $5k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $3k → 11%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%GABRIELS ANGELS: $500 → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$891k · 17 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
20

Total granted

$891k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+58%

Still filing today

82%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionReligionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • RH
    RYAN HOUSE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $237k · revenue +6%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $210k · revenue +51%
  • DC
    DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
    4× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • AH
    ANDRE HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • MP
    MAGGIE'S PLACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +42%
  • CA
    Camden Area Christian Food Pantrygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +70%
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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

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3
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
4
The Arizona Pet Project

The arizona pet project creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection…

Animals
5
Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland

The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.

Animals
6
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
7
Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc

THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…

Animals
8
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

—
9
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
10
Marana Health Center Inc

Improving our community by providing exceptional, whole-person healthcare.

Health
11
Rescue Me Tucson

Rescue Me Tucson provides resources for pets and their people through its compassionate collaborative-based pet adoption model. Rescue Me Tucson opened their Rescue Me Marana pet adoption center in Sept 2021 to help area shelters and…

Animals
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Camden Area Christian Food Pantry. 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

27 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. 27 of the 39 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RYAN HOUSE: $237,000 · Human ServicesRYAN HOUSEHomeworthy: $22,000 · Human ServicesHomeworthy+3 more: $6,500 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - PHO: $120,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PA…SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCE: $60,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PA…BIKERS AGAINST CHILD ABUSE: $11,000 · OtherANDRE HOUSE: $10,000 · OtherOne World Childrens Fund: $12,000 · Other+15 more: $32,150 · Other+15 moreST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $210,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLI…+2 more: $7,000 · Food & NutritionDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $100,000 · ReligionDIOCESAN COUNCIL F…PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $62,500 · ReligionPHOENIX GOSPEL MIS…+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $53,200 · Recreation & SportsEquine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary: $15,000 · AnimalsArizona Humane Society: $11,000 · AnimalsTWO PUPS WELLNESS FUND: $4,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsOUR RESCUE: $17,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $2,000 · Arts & CultureFOCUS ON LYME FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$265,500Other$245,150Food & Nutrition$217,000Religion$163,500Recreation & Sports$53,200Animals$31,000Arts & Culture$20,000

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 budgetRYAN HOUSE: $237,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $210,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $62,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $53,200 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHomeworthy: $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEquine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary: $15,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCamden Area Christian Food Pantry: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTWO PUPS WELLNESS FUND: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStandish Food Pantry: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetArizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTHILLS ANIMAL RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGABRIELS ANGELS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% 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 Fou…Baird Foundation IncAmerican Express Foun…Jewish Community Foun…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ22.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Three Desert Winds Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Three Desert Winds Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 39 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-PF 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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