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· Public charity

United Phoenix Fire Fighters Association Inc

To protect and improve the quality of life in our communities through community partnerships, community service programs and life safety education.

$958k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$127k
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 2023.

Health$1.0MHuman Services$142kCommunity Improvement$95kAnimals$30kInternational$25kHousing & Shelter$25kRecreation & Sports$20kEducation$18kOther$0
02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $399,633, the rows itemized in this filing. The $958,015 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $558,382 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION$127,477
CHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION$101,500
TEMPE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC$56,000
LOST OUR HOME PET RESCUE$25,000
DSQUARED HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS$25,000
TOOLBANK USA INC DBA PHOENIX COMMUNITY TOOLBANK$20,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$10,731
CHILD CRISIS OF ARIZONA$10,000
DESERT STATES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$8,000
PHOENIX LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSOCIATION CHARITIES$5,800
BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INC$5,100
ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY$5,025
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 (FY23–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DSQUARED HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS: $25k → 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 10 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$1.1M
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+67%

Still filing today

90%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthCommunity ImprovementAnimalsInternationalPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2017–2022 · $46k · revenue +33%
  • DS
    DESERT STATES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2023 · $32k · revenue +56%
  • AB
    ARIZONA BURN FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $27k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHILDRENS CANCER NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +29%
  • TC
    TEMPE COMMUNITY COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +84%
  • TC
    TEMPE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue 0%
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
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
2
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
3
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
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4
Arizona's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services
5
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
6
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
7
Banner Health

Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".

Health
8
Az Hugs
Human Services
9
The Dons of Arizona
Education
10
City Help Inc of Phoenix

Our mission is to reach in and mine the incredible potential we believe lies within the lives of at-risk youth, the homeless, and needy families of our community by restoring hope and allowing them to dream again.

Human Services
11
Arizona Chronic Care Together Inc

public charity

Health
12
Codac Health Recovery & Wellness

Codac provides tools, support and services to individuals, families, and communities so they may live with dignity, free from the harmful effects of mental illness, substance use disorders and trauma.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Those Without a Voic. 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

21 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. 21 of the 22 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)
20/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $883,381 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INCAmerican Heart Association Inc: $45,500 · Health+5 more: $57,950 · Health+5 moreCHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION: $101,500 · Public BenefitTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $56,000 · Community ImprovementPhoenix Community ToolBank Inc: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTEMPE COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $8,000 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR THOSE WITHOUT A VOIC: $40,000 · OtherFOUNDATION…ARIZONA BURN FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · OtherARIZONA BU…TEMPE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $6,000 · OtherJW ROBINSON SOCIETY: $6,000 · OtherDsquared Homes for the Homeless: $25,000 · OtherDsquared H…PHOENIX LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSOCIATION CHARITIES: $13,300 · OtherPHOENIX LA…CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $10,000 · OtherCHILD CRIS…DESERT STATES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $31,500 · PhilanthropyLost Our Home Pet Foundation: $25,000 · AnimalsArizona Humane Society: $5,025 · AnimalsBest Buddies International Inc: $25,100 · International
Health$986,831Public Benefit$101,500Community Improvement$89,000Other$127,300Philanthropy$31,500Animals$30,025International$25,100

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 budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $883,381 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION: $101,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $56,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $45,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THOSE WITHOUT A VOIC: $40,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetDESERT STATES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $31,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetARIZONA BURN FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $25,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Community ToolBank Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetDsquared Homes for the Homeless: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLost Our Home Pet Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDRENS CANCER NETWORK: $19,719 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPHOENIX LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSOCIATION CHARITIES: $13,300 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHUNKAPI PROGRAMS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,731 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARIZONA BRANCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEMPE COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTEMPE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $5,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 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…Mercy CareBurton Family Foundat…Thunderbirds CharitiesVirginia G Piper Char…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Mercy Care · Burton Family Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 United Phoenix Fire Fighters Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Phoenix Fire Fighters Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 22 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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