· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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How this is measured
193 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. 193 of the 256 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- 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 ↗
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- Who funds SOLARI INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Valley of the Sun United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Valley of the Sun United Way. Bigger dots raise more.
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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