· Public charity
Valley of the Sun United Way
Improves lives by mobilizing community, corporate and nonprofit partners to reach bold goals for maricopa county in the areas of health, housing and homelessness, education and workforce development.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $903k
- $50k–250k54 grants · $5.2M
- $250k+9 grants · $56M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $45,070,430 |
| Direct Designations to Various Agencies | $5,026,755 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,019,094 |
| A New Leaf Inc | $762,435 |
| Arizona Community Foundation DBA Read On Arizona | $734,400 |
| Chicanos Por La Causa Inc | $642,895 |
| Make Way for Books | $373,878 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley | $373,284 |
| Community Bridges Inc | $331,358 |
| St Mary's Food Bank | $228,144 |
| School Readiness Kits - Various Partners | $224,973 |
| UMOM New Day Centers Inc | $175,657 |
| Southwest Human Development | $154,077 |
| Solari Inc | $150,000 |
| Child Crisis Arizona | $147,652 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $41.1M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
193 repeat relationships — 86 still active in FY2025, 107 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SHSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2025 · $24M · revenue +14%
- EBEASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +11%
- CFCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $12M · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SCSenior Connect Meals-Various Partnersone grant, 2022 · $892k
- TETOLLESON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT #17one grant, 2021 · $343k
- SRSchool Readiness Kits - Various Schoolsone grant, 2019 · $227k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf and the most unlike its peers is Haitian American Center for Social Economic Dev Az. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
193 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 193 of the 256 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Candelen Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds PENDERGAST ELEMENTARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE HEALTHCAREINC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Community ToolBank Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds AZCEND ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF ↗
- Who funds Human Services Campus Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Ignites Phoenix ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Make Way For Books ↗
- Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds Tempe Community Action Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds Jobs for Arizona's Graduates ↗
- Who funds SOLARI INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Thunderbirds Charities · Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · BHHS Legacy Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · John F Long Foundation Inc · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · Burton Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Valley of the Sun United Way funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.