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United Way of Pinal County

UNITED WAY OF PINAL COUNTY is dedicated to improving the quality of life for everyone in pinal county by mobilizing resources and fostering partnerships to address critical community needs.

$411k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$92k
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, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$481kArts & Culture$183k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $230,194, the rows itemized in this filing. The $410,909 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $180,715 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 $10k10 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $92k
$5,600
Median grant
9
States reached
$679k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOLLY PARTON'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY$91,894
CENTRAL ARIZONA COLLEGE$31,300
GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY$30,800
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY$16,800
NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE$9,000
SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY$5,600
MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$5,600
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$5,600
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON$5,600
CHAMBERLAIN UNIVERSITY$5,600
DEVRY UNIVERSITY$5,600
PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY$5,600
UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN$5,600
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$5,600
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%CENTRAL ARIZONA COLLEGE: $31k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $27k → 15%NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: $36k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $6k → 12%PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $13k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $6k → 15%DOLLY PARTON'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $92k → 12%CHAMBERLAIN UNIVERISITY: $10k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN: $13k → 11%MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 19%SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 7%MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 11%CENTRAL ARIZONA COLLEGE: $30k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $9k → 15%NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: $17k → 16%DOLLY PARTON'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $64k → 12%CHAMBERLAIN UNIVERSITY: $6k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN: $10k → 11%MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 19%ELECTRO-MECH REFRIGERATION SCHOOL: $24k → 11%DOLLY PARTON'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $27k → 12%DEVRY UNIVERSITY: $6k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN: $6k → 11%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%RIO SALADO COLLEGE: $13k → 11%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 11%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%XTYLO BEAUTY COLLEGE: $10k → 11%NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $9k → 11%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $37k → 11%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $31k → 11%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
ND
IL
MA
OR
MD
AZ
TN
TX
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$493k · 8 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$493k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+184%

Still filing today

38%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $183k · revenue +14%
  • GC
    Grand Canyon University
    3× · 2023–2025 · $87k · revenue +19%
  • UO
    University of Jamestown
    3× · 2023–2025 · $29k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • NA
    NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue +184%
  • ER
    ELECTRO-MECH REFRIGERATION SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $24k
  • K(
    KJZZKBAQ (THROUGH MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGES)
    one grant, 2024 · $23k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 21 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $182,544 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIONARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $62,267 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYCENTRAL ARIZONA COLLEGE: $61,300 · OtherCENTRAL ARIZONA COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $35,668 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAELECTRO-MECH REFRIGERATION SCHOOL: $24,350 · OtherKJZZKBAQ (THROUGH MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGES): $23,334 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $18,934 · OtherNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: $16,800 · Other+8 more: $70,334 · Other+8 moreGrand Canyon University: $87,468 · EducationGrand Canyon UniversityNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $36,000 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY …University of Jamestown: $28,934 · EducationUniversity of JamestownARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY+1 more: $5,600 · Education
Other$495,531Education$168,002

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $182,544 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $87,468 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Jamestown: $28,934 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $5,600 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.

  • Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Jamestown ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Southern New Hampshire University ↗

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.

Tulsa Community Found…Folds of Honor Founda…Fidelity Investments …
Tulsa Community FoundationOK16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 United Way of Pinal County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Pinal County. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 21 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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