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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…

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
150
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$17MHuman Services$13MYouth Development$11MHousing & Shelter$8.7MEducation$6.1MRecreation & Sports$3.2MFood & Nutrition$1.9MArts & Culture$1.7MOther$0
02FY2025 · 150 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k81 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k53 grants · $4.9M
  • $250k+8 grants · $4.2M
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ELEVATE PHOENIX$200,000
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL ARIZONA$200,000
ARIZONA CANCER FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN$200,000
UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS$200,000
A NEW LEAF$200,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDHELP USA: $117k → 11%BENEVILLA: $158k → 11%BENEVILLA: $97k → 11%INTERFAITH COMMUNITY CARE DBA BENEVILLA: $87k → 11%BENEVILLA: $77k → 11%NOTMYKID INC: $529k → 11%NOTMYKID INC: $128k → 11%NEW LIFE CENTER: $250k → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $265k → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $260k → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $215k → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $200k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $100k → 11%BENEVILLA SUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC: $77k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $200k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $151k → 11%ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $101k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICE: $100k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $100k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $90k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $77k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $75k → 11%CHRYSALIS SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $106k → 11%CHRYSALIS SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $100k → 11%CHRYSALIS SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $75k → 11%HUSHABYE NURSERY: $100k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA: $121k → 11%ABILITY 360: $120k → 11%ABILITY 360: $116k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $260k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $125k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $119k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $105k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $250k → 11%GENESIS CITY: $82k → 11%DESERT MISSION INC: $100k → 11%HUSHABYE NURSERY: $100k → 11%ZION INSTITUTE: $100k → 11%ZION INSTITUTE: $80k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $150k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE: $100k → 11%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $100k → 11%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $100k → 11%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $100k → 11%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $100k → 11%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $75k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$67M · 240 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

240
71

Total granted

$67M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+27%

Still filing today

97%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $387k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +26%
  • HS
    Human Services Campus Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue ×19
  • BH
    Banner Health Foundation
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +220%

Funded once

  • PP
    PHOENIX PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -37%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +62%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR LIVINGgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +36%
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
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
2
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
3
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
4
Foster 360

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

Human Services
5
Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence Inc

The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.

Education
6
Arc of Arizona Inc

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,…

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7
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

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8
Home Matters to Arizona

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Adelante Healthcareinc

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…

Health
10
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

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.

—
11
Statewide Independent Living Council

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…

Human Services
12
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ABILITY360 Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

320 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. 320 of the 327 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
107
Early backer (in before they grew)
309/320
Grantees still filing
231/320
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $1,035,000 · Human ServicesValley of the Sun You…NOTMYKID: $955,217 · Human ServicesNOTMYKIDSUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC DBA BENEVILLA: $775,536 · Human ServicesSUN CITY AREA INTERFA…FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $708,000 · Human ServicesFRESH START WOMEN'S F…RYAN HOUSE: $615,136 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $475,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $471,034 · Human ServicesDelivering Dreams of Arizona: $435,402 · Human Services+40 more: $7,178,758 · Human Services+40 moreBanner Health Foundation: $1,782,530 · HealthBanner Health Foun…A NEW LEAF: $1,312,540 · HealthA NEW LEAFPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $1,281,371 · HealthPhoenix Children's…BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $1,152,115 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICA…VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $890,000 · HealthVALLEYWISE HEALTH …BRIGHTER WAY INSTITUTE: $553,075 · HealthNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC: $550,000 · HealthSUN HEALTH SERVICES: $548,331 · HealthSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $495,000 · Health+17 more: $2,540,610 · Health+17 moreHuman Services Campus Inc: $2,158,007 · Housing & ShelterHuman Service…HOMEWARD BOUND: $1,734,204 · Housing & ShelterHOMEWARD BOUN…UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $1,694,500 · Housing & ShelterUMOM NEW DAY …SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $582,500 · Housing & ShelterSAVE THE FAMI…ARIZONA HOUSING INC: $300,000 · Housing & ShelterTREASURE HOUSE: $281,978 · Housing & Shelter+6 more: $929,820 · Housing & Shelter+6 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC: $1,678,374 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INCSt Joseph the Worker: $975,832 · OtherCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $1,774,761 · OtherCHILD CRISIS ARIZONADELTA DENTAL PLAN OF ARIZONA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION AND TRUST: $1,076,365 · OtherTeen Lifeline Inc: $1,043,918 · Other+82 more: $17,646,170 · Other+82 moreORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED: $800,066 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $742,216 · EducationARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT: $338,272 · EducationTREASURES 4 TEACHERS INC: $335,000 · EducationTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $313,401 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $250,277 · EducationPHOENIX PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $225,000 · EducationJobs for Arizona's Graduates: $212,942 · EducationTHE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationCAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Education+5 more: $432,500 · EducationDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $1,174,959 · ReligionPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $950,630 · ReligionHOMELESS ID PROJECT INC: $795,000 · ReligionFAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX: $495,000 · ReligionMentorKids USA: $203,500 · ReligionNeighborhood Ministries Inc: $170,000 · ReligionSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC: $2,631,084 · Recreation & SportsARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX: $206,260 · Recreation & SportsMIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA: $203,764 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $137,233 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$12,649,083Health$11,105,572Housing & Shelter$7,681,009Other$24,195,420Education$4,249,674Religion$3,789,089Recreation & Sports$3,178,341

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC: $2,631,084 over 9y, 16% of budgetHuman Services Campus Inc: $2,158,007 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $1,782,530 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $1,774,761 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND: $1,734,204 over 7y, 16% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $1,694,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC: $1,678,374 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetA NEW LEAF: $1,312,540 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $1,281,371 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $1,174,959 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $1,152,115 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetDELTA DENTAL PLAN OF ARIZONA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION AND TRUST: $1,076,365 over 8y, 20% of budgetTeen Lifeline Inc: $1,043,918 over 8y, 19% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $1,035,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSt Joseph the Worker: $975,832 over 7y, 12% of budgetNOTMYKID: $955,217 over 9y, 14% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $950,630 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $890,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED: $800,066 over 9y, 9.7% of budgetHOMELESS ID PROJECT INC: $795,000 over 9y, 30% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $788,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC DBA BENEVILLA: $775,536 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION: $750,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $742,216 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $708,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $689,643 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetRYAN HOUSE: $615,136 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $582,500 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetELEVATE PHOENIX: $560,955 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetBRIGHTER WAY INSTITUTE: $553,075 over 4y, 12% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC: $550,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCAMPUS OF HUMAN SERVICES LLC: $550,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSUN HEALTH SERVICES: $548,331 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth: $507,750 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $495,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX: $495,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetArizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc: $475,655 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $475,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $471,034 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDelivering Dreams of Arizona: $435,402 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetUnited Food Bank: $432,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $415,200 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS: $408,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetBE A LEADER FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetNOURISHPHX: $395,565 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $392,500 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN PHOENIX INC: $374,500 over 3y, 4.5% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Virginia G Piper Char…Arizona Community Fou…John F Long Foundatio…Valley of the Sun Uni…The Diane and Bruce H…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…BHHS Legacy FoundationPhoenix Suns Charitie…The Foundation for Co…Fiesta Events IncArizona Cardinals Fou…William & Ruth Pendle…
Virginia G Piper Charitable TrustAZ237.1× affinity135 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Thunderbirds Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thunderbirds Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
87report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 327 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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