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Valley Kids Foundation

The VALLEY KIDS FOUNDATION is a non-profit organization created and managed by the valley of the sun active 20-30 club.

$151k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Youth Development$328kHealth$95kHuman Services$65kPhilanthropy$13kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $135,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $150,800 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,800 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.
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$28k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FOSTER ALLIANCE$25,000
CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA$20,000
CHILDREN'S CANCER NETWORK$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE$20,000
AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS$20,000
MAKE-A-WISH ARIZONA$10,000
RYAN HOUSE$10,000
MIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA$10,000
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 (FY22–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RYAN HOUSE: $30k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $25k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $10k → 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.
$408k · 7 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$408k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+62%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’25
HealthPhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesHousing & 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

  • AH
    AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +13%
  • CC
    CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $78k · revenue +18%
  • BD
    BALLER DREAM FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • Best Buddies International Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +43%
  • MS
    MITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +67%
  • HI
    HOPEKIDS INCgraduated
    2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +62%
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
Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc

Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children provides social, emotional, and financial support to families managing the health and well-being of a loved one with pediatric cancer.

Public Benefit
3
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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4
Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services

The children's clinics provides a family centered comprehensive medical home to meet the special needs of children and families.

Health
5
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
6
Pediatric Specialty Group Inc

Pediatric specialty group, inc. (d/b/a nicklaus children's pediatric specialists ("ncps")) is a physician-directed, multi-specialty pediatric group with a regional, national, and international presence in providing pediatric-centric care…

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7
Kids Beating Cancer Inc

Organization - kids beating cancer, inc., (kbc) is a nonprofit, nonstock florida corporation formed in 1992. kbc provides access to life-saving treatments through the science of cellular therapy and advancing pediatric innovative, novel,…

Human Services
8
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Colorado

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
9
Aviva Children's Services

Aviva children's services changes the lives of more than 3,000 children in foster care each year by providing emergency resources, ongoing family support and comprehensive behavioral health services.

Human Services
10
Make-a-Wish Foundation of America

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

—
11
Make-a-Wish Nevada

The make-a-wish foundation of nevada creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Human Services
12
Make-a-Wish Foundation of San Diego

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Arizona Inc; the most unlike its peers is Love Society. 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

14 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS: $85,000 · HealthAMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELSBALLER DREAM FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthBALLER DREAM FOUNDATIONMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $10,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA…HOPEKIDS INC: $10,000 · HealthHOPEKIDS INCTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $93,370 · EducationTHE FOSTER ALLIANCECHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $77,500 · Crime & LegalCHILD CRISIS ARIZ…RYAN HOUSE: $65,000 · Human ServicesRYAN HOUSEGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC: $20,000 · OtherGIGIS PLAYHOUSE…CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $20,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRA…Best Buddies International Inc: $20,000 · OtherBest Buddies In…MIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA: $10,000 · OtherMIRACLE LEAGUE …BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyMITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES INC: $12,500 · PhilanthropyHOMEWARD BOUND: $22,500 · Housing & Shelter
Health$150,000Education$93,370Crime & Legal$77,500Human Services$65,000Other$70,000Philanthropy$32,500Housing & Shelter$22,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $93,370 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS: $85,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $77,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRYAN HOUSE: $65,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBALLER DREAM FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND: $22,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Thunderbirds CharitiesArizona Community Fou…Phoenix Suns Charitie…Fiesta Events IncAmerican Express Foun…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Thunderbirds CharitiesAZ17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thunderbirds Charities · Arizona Community Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Fiesta Events Inc · American Express Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Valley Kids Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Valley Kids Foundation. 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%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 14 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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