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United Way of Northern Arizona Inc

Improving lives by mobilizing communities to create lasting changes in community conditions.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$69k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$1.0MHealth$721kCrime & Legal$574kHousing & Shelter$513kFood & Nutrition$449kHuman Services$397kEducation$249kPublic Safety & Disaster$106kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $487,524, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,222,861 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $735,337 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $256k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
$11,752
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER$68,544
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$61,200
CANDELEN$34,272
FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER$29,376
FLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES$29,376
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FLAGSTAFF$29,376
TYNKERTOPIA INC$24,480
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$24,480
HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZO$23,204
VICTIM WITNESS SERVICES$19,584
QUALITY CONNECTION$15,668
THE LITERACY CENTER$14,688
FRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON$11,752
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY$9,972
THE SALVATION ARMY FLAGSTAFF$9,792
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 (FY18–25, $754k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%PAGE REGIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $11k → 16%PAGE REGIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $10k → 16%ALICES PLACE: $7k → 26%ALICES PLACE: $7k → 26%CHICANOS POR LAS CAUSA INC: $8k → 11%CHICANOS POR LAS CAUSA INC: $8k → 11%ALICES PLACE: $7k → 26%CHICANOS POR LAS CAUSA INC: $8k → 11%CHICANOS POR LAS CAUSA INC: $8k → 11%CHANGEPOINT INTEGRATED HEALTH: $7k → 26%QUALITY CONNECTION: $21k → 16%QUALITY CONNECTION: $21k → 16%HOZHONI FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%QUALITY CONNECTION: $16k → 16%QUALITY CONNECTION: $16k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $63k → 16%HOZHONI FOUNDATION: $14k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $62k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $61k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $52k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $50k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $33k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $33k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $31k → 16%HOZHONI FOUNDATION: $9k → 16%VICTIM WITNESS SERVICES: $24k → 16%VICTIM WITNESS SERVICES: $23k → 16%VICTIM WITNESS SERVICES: $23k → 16%VICTIM WITNESS SERVICES: $20k → 16%VICTIM WITNESS SERVICES: $20k → 16%VICTIM WITNESS SERVICES: $17k → 16%VICTIM WITNESS SERVICES: $14k → 16%YMCA: $12k → 16%HOZHONI FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%HOZHONI FOUNDATION: $7k → 16%YMCA: $5k → 16%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 37 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
12

Total granted

$4.2M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-2%

Still filing today

81%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • NF
    NORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $603k · revenue +89%
  • FF
    FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $442k · revenue +422%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $385k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • NH
    NEW HOPE RANCH
    2× · 2018–2019 · $13k
  • SH
    SAGE HOME INC
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue -8% · 41% of their budget
  • University of Arizona Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue -2%
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
Nazcare Inc

To provide behavioral health consumer-operated support, education, training services, and housing support to mental health consumers of arizona

Health
2
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

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3
Central Arizona Shelter Services Inc

The Organizations mission is to prevent and end homelessness among individuals and families while advancing compassionate community solutions.

Housing & Shelter
4
Navajoland Nursing Homes Inc Chinle Nursing Homes

To continue to provide the best home like care facility for our Navajo elders and others with optium resources and professionalism.

Human Services
5
Our Family Services Inc

Our Family's mission is to eliminate homelessness and strengthen our community. We do this by providing stability in times of crisis, linking people to support and resources, supporting social connectedness, engaging our neighbors to…

—
6
Azcend

AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.

Human Services
7
Canyonlands Community Health Center

The mission of canyonlands healthcare is to promote healthier lives through affordable, accessible, integrated primary care.

—
8
Horizon Health and Wellness Inc

Horizon health and wellness inc's mission is to provide strength-based, culturally sensitive integrated health services by partnering with families and individuals to manage challenges and support their recovery. hhw developed an (cont'd…

Health
9
Southeastern Arizona Behavioral Health Services Inc

Our mission is continually to improve the quality of life for the people we serve in collaboration with our diverse communities in a respectful, caring, culturally sensitive manner. The organization provides behavioral health services for…

Health
10
Flagstaff Medical Center

Improving health, healing people.

Health
11
Southeastern Arizona Community Unique Services

To provide services to the elderly and disabled in the form of congregate and home delivered meals, housekeeping services, in-home nursing care, home health aides, and other services.

Health
12
Child & Family Services of Yuma Inc

Child & Family Services provides a wide continuum of outpatient services for children and thier families with behavioral/mental health needs, in aspiration of fulfilling the family's individualized goals. Right Turn provides transitional…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association; the most unlike its peers is Sage Home 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

37 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. 37 of the 49 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/37
Grantees still filing
22/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLAGSTAFF: $485,614 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLAGSTAFFFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER: $441,520 · OtherFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTERCandelen Inc: $110,457 · OtherCandelen IncAMERICAN RED CROSS: $77,386 · OtherNORTH COUNTRY HEALTHCARE INC: $76,499 · OtherNATIVE AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $68,261 · OtherDNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC: $68,167 · OtherFRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON INC: $105,160 · OtherFRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON INC+19 more: $441,588 · Other+19 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $385,080 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES COM…Victim Witness Services For Coconino County: $139,886 · Human ServicesVictim Witness Service…NORTHLAND HOSPICE: $89,862 · Human ServicesNORTHLAND HOSPICEQuality Connections Inc: $72,708 · Human ServicesQuality Connections In…HOZHONI FOUNDATION INC: $57,759 · Human ServicesHOZHONI FOUNDATION INCCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $32,102 · Human Services+4 more: $65,986 · Human Services+4 moreNORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER: $603,209 · Crime & LegalNORTHLAND FAMILY…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FLAGSTAFF: $169,422 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $78,317 · Youth DevelopmentHomeless Youth Connection Inc: $15,832 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,706 · Youth DevelopmentTynkertopia Inc: $123,980 · EducationLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF COCONINO COUNTY INC: $98,903 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $28,222 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $11,312 · EducationFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC: $241,305 · Housing & ShelterSUNNYSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $139,034 · Community ImprovementSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $16,616 · Community Improvement
Other$1,874,652Human Services$843,383Crime & Legal$603,209Youth Development$269,277Education$262,417Housing & Shelter$241,305Community Improvement$155,650

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 budgetNORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER: $603,209 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLAGSTAFF: $485,614 over 8y, 15% of budgetFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER: $441,520 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $385,080 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC: $241,305 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FLAGSTAFF: $169,422 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetVictim Witness Services For Coconino County: $139,886 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetSUNNYSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $139,034 over 8y, 34% of budgetTynkertopia Inc: $123,980 over 5y, 18% of budgetCandelen Inc: $110,457 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON INC: $105,160 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF COCONINO COUNTY INC: $98,903 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetNORTHLAND HOSPICE: $89,862 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $78,317 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY HEALTHCARE INC: $76,499 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetQuality Connections Inc: $72,708 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATIVE AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $68,261 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC: $68,167 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA: $61,749 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetHOZHONI FOUNDATION INC: $57,759 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGRAND CANYON COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $43,244 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $32,102 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $28,222 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $23,612 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE AMERICA INC: $20,938 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetAlices Place Inc: $20,406 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGRAND CANYON YOUTH INC: $19,792 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $17,656 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHomeless Youth Connection Inc: $15,832 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY INFORMATION & REFERRAL: $13,418 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAGE HOME INC: $11,860 over 1y, 41% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $11,312 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChangePoint Integrated Health: $6,986 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCuddle Outreach Ministry: $5,706 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetSOLARI INC: $5,665 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Support Community Arizona: $5,600 over 1y, 0.3% 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 NORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLAGSTAFF ↗
  • Who funds FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds FLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FLAGSTAFF ↗
  • Who funds Victim Witness Services For Coconino County ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Tynkertopia Inc ↗
  • Who funds Candelen Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF COCONINO COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLAND HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTRY HEALTHCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Quality Connections Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds HOZHONI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND CANYON COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Alices Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds GRAND CANYON YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Homeless Youth Connection Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INFORMATION & REFERRAL ↗
  • Who funds SAGE HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Arizona 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.

Arizona Community Fou…Molly and Joseph Herm…Geile Charitable Foun…The Narbha Institute …Forest Highlands Foun…Health First Foundati…Geofamily FoundationValley of the Sun Uni…The Foundation for Co…Burton Family Foundat…The Diane and Bruce H…Phoenix Suns Charitie…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ54.7× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Molly and Joseph Herman Foundation · Geile Charitable Foundation · The Narbha Institute Inc · Forest Highlands Foundation · Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona · Geofamily Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Burton Family Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities 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 United Way of Northern Arizona Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Northern Arizona Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 49 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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