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Thunderbirds Charities
The THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES corporation conducts business in the state of arizona serving as the host organization for the pga tour event that is conducted annually in the phoenix metropolitan area, and through donations to arizona based organizations, (cont'd sched o) providing assistance to families, children, and others in need and…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k81 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k53 grants · $4.9M
- $250k+8 grants · $4.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY | $1,000,000 |
| KEYS TO CHANGE | $702,500 |
| NOTMYKID INC | $528,750 |
| THE PHOENIX ZOO | $500,000 |
| BANNER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $472,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA | $457,235 |
| FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION | $259,750 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $250,000 |
| BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $230,107 |
| TEEN LIFELINE | $201,930 |
| A NEW LEAF | $200,000 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL ARIZONA | $200,000 |
| ARIZONA CANCER FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $200,000 |
| UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS | $200,000 |
| ELEVATE PHOENIX | $200,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $12.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
240 repeat relationships — 128 still active in FY2025, 112 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $387k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +26%
- HSHuman Services Campus Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue ×19
- BHBanner Health Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +220%
Funded once
- PPPHOENIX PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -37%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR SENIOR LIVINGgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +36%
- TATHE ARIZONA CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIREDone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.
The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.
Advocates for the rights and participation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. together with our network of members and affiliated chapters, we improve systems of support, connect families, inspire communication,…
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
Home matters to arizona is the first statewide home matters initiative focused on a new generation of affordable housing, connected communities, and healthier individuals, families, and economies. we add housing units while encouraging…
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…
To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.
Arizona Statewide Independent Living Council, AZSILC is one of 56 Statewide Independent Living Councils, SILCs which are federally mandated under the Rehabilitation Act. There is one SILC in each state and US territory. AZSILC members are…
To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ABILITY360 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Delta Dental Plan of Arizona Charitable Foundation and Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
320 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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 320 of the 327 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds Human Services Campus Inc ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND ↗
- Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELTA DENTAL PLAN OF ARIZONA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION AND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Teen Lifeline Inc ↗
- Who funds Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds St Joseph the Worker ↗
- Who funds NOTMYKID ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ID PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC DBA BENEVILLA ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC ↗
- Who funds RYAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER WAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS OF HUMAN SERVICES LLC ↗
- Who funds SUN HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds New Pathways For Youth ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · Valley of the Sun United Way · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Fiesta Events Inc · Arizona Cardinals Foundation · William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund US Bank National Association
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 Thunderbirds Charities 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
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.