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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.

$62M
Granted FY2025still arriving
98
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$45M
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$400MHuman Services$95MCrime & Legal$58MYouth Development$38MHousing & Shelter$15MHealth$14MCommunity Improvement$11MPublic Benefit$7.0MOther$0
02FY2025 · 98 grants

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
$71,324
Median grant
5
States reached
$100M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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.

area typical 10%Year Up Inc: $147k → 16%Child & Family Resources: $3.1M → 15%Chicanos Por La Causa Inc: $643k → 11%Chicanos Por La Causa Inc: $560k → 11%Aid To Adoption Of Special Kids: $148k → 11%Chicanos Por La Causa Inc: $411k → 11%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $180k → 11%CHANDLER CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $400k → 11%Chandler Christian Community Center: $398k → 11%CHANDLER CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $385k → 11%CHANDLER CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $333k → 11%CHANDLER CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $564k → 11%Dysart Community Center: $133k → 11%New Life Center: $152k → 11%Friendly House Inc: $529k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $496k → 11%Valley Of The Sun YMCA: $324k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $303k → 11%Friendly House Inc: $282k → 11%Human Services Campus LLC: $282k → 11%Valley Of The Sun YMCA: $273k → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $256k → 11%Valley Of The Sun YMCA: $243k → 11%Friendly House Inc: $225k → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $196k → 11%Friendly House Inc: $165k → 11%MAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $137k → 11%Friendly House Inc: $133k → 11%Child & Family Resources: $1.9M → 11%Child & Family Resources: $1.9M → 11%Child & Family Resources: $1.8M → 11%CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES: $1.7M → 11%CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES: $1.7M → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICE: $219k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICE: $159k → 11%Easter Seals Blake Foundation: $2.5M → 11%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $2.1M → 11%Easter Seals Black Foundation: $2.1M → 11%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $1.8M → 11%Easter Seals Black Foundation: $1.8M → 11%Easter Seals Blake Foundation: $1.7M → 11%Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley: $446k → 11%DESERT MISSION INC: $223k → 11%DESERT MISSION INC: $222k → 11%Foundation for Blind Children: $136k → 11%Jobs for Arizona Graduates: $135k → 11%Labors Community Service Agency: $216k → 11%Labors Community Service Agency: $173k → 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

IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$653M · 193 repeat orgs$49M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

193
51

Total granted

$653M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

75%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & 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

  • SH
    SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED
    8× · 2017–2025 · $24M · revenue +14%
  • EB
    EASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +11%
  • CF
    CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $12M · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • SC
    Senior Connect Meals-Various Partners
    one grant, 2022 · $892k
  • TE
    TOLLESON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT #17
    one grant, 2021 · $343k
  • SR
    School Readiness Kits - Various Schools
    one 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.

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
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
3
Foster 360

Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.

Human Services
4
Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health
5
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.

—
6
Statewide Independent Living Council

Arizona Statewide Independent Living Council, AZSILC is one of 56 Statewide Independent Living Councils, SILCs which are federally mandated under the Rehabilitation Act. There is one SILC in each state and US territory. AZSILC members are…

Human Services
7
Arizona Youth Partnership

Arizona youth partnership, (azyp), empowers youth to harness their strengths to live healthy and purposeful lives.

Health
8
Arizona Center for Community College Success

To bring arizona's community colleges together to share ideas, collaborate, and drive meaningful change. we act as a statewide hub providing colleges best practices, annual convenings, and professional development.

Education
9
Dress for Success Arizona

Our mission is to empower women to achieve economic mobility by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.

Human Services
10
Tempe Community Action Agency Inc

TCAA's mission is to eliminate poverty and advance equitable communities. This mission is achieved through the delivery of comprehensive human services programs designed to improve housing stability, increase food security, improve health…

Community Improvement
11
Arizona Legal Women and Youth Services

No cost legal services provided to vulnerable young people and trafficking survivors to help eliminate barriers to safety, stability, and opportunity. Specializing in family law, criminal history repair, vital document collection, and…

Crime & Legal
12
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
53
Early backer (in before they grew)
182/193
Grantees still filing
133/193
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FTF Quality First Scholarships to Providers: $381,930,922 · OtherFTF Quality First Scholarships to ProvidersDIRECT DESIGNATIONS TO VARIOUS AGENCIES: $61,240,914 · OtherDIRECT DESIGNATIONS TO VARIOUS AGENCIESIndividual grant recipient: $45,070,430 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCandelen Inc: $33,573,437 · OtherCandelen IncSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $23,786,828 · Other+98 more: $60,154,019 · Other+98 moreEASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $12,163,577 · Human ServicesCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $12,118,495 · Human ServicesAZCEND: $2,959,397 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $2,486,589 · Human ServicesCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $2,159,611 · Human ServicesValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $1,515,803 · Human Services+25 more: $8,862,519 · Human ServicesADELANTE HEALTHCAREINC: $5,688,483 · HealthA NEW LEAF: $2,569,088 · HealthNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC: $2,129,443 · HealthSOLARI INC: $1,308,810 · HealthSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $978,392 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $881,481 · HealthEMPACT-SUICIDE PREVENTION CENTER: $713,092 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $634,759 · Health+9 more: $1,055,828 · HealthCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: $3,543,342 · Housing & ShelterUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $3,523,782 · Housing & ShelterHuman Services Campus Inc: $2,500,998 · Housing & ShelterARIZONA HOUSING INC: $2,189,713 · Housing & ShelterHOMEWARD BOUND: $1,765,602 · Housing & ShelterSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $1,034,510 · Housing & ShelterSTARDUST NON-PROFIT BUILDING SUPPLIES INC: $871,217 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $341,200 · Housing & ShelterPENDERGAST ELEMENTARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,908,153 · EducationMake Way For Books: $2,030,362 · EducationJobs for Arizona's Graduates: $1,404,424 · EducationREAD BETTER BE BETTER: $814,840 · Education+17 more: $2,196,647 · EducationBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA: $1,911,878 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $1,880,120 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $1,709,833 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $826,113 · Youth DevelopmentARIZONA KIDS THINK TOO: $711,798 · Youth DevelopmentICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS: $707,795 · Youth DevelopmentHomeless Youth Connection Inc: $637,328 · Youth Development+6 more: $1,188,390 · Youth DevelopmentPhoenix Community ToolBank Inc: $5,488,274 · Community ImprovementTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $1,813,597 · Community ImprovementHELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS: $337,275 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA: $310,013 · Community Improvement+3 more: $423,063 · Community Improvement
Other$605,756,550Human Services$42,265,991Health$15,959,376Housing & Shelter$15,770,364Education$13,354,426Youth Development$9,573,255Community Improvement$8,372,222

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCandelen Inc: $33,573,437 over 9y, 63% of budgetSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $23,786,828 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetEASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $12,163,577 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $12,118,495 over 7y, 14% of budgetPENDERGAST ELEMENTARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,908,153 over 4y, 81% of budgetADELANTE HEALTHCAREINC: $5,688,483 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetPhoenix Community ToolBank Inc: $5,488,274 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: $3,543,342 over 9y, 13% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $3,523,782 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC: $2,995,910 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetAZCEND: $2,959,397 over 9y, 7.7% of budgetA NEW LEAF: $2,569,088 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHuman Services Campus Inc: $2,500,998 over 7y, 29% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $2,486,589 over 9y, 7.5% of budgetHope Ignites Phoenix: $2,420,882 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,355,228 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetARIZONA HOUSING INC: $2,189,713 over 9y, 10.0% of budgetCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $2,159,611 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC: $2,129,443 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetMake Way For Books: $2,030,362 over 3y, 30% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $2,010,015 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA: $1,911,878 over 9y, 13% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $1,880,120 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $1,813,597 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND: $1,765,602 over 9y, 12% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $1,709,833 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $1,525,974 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $1,515,803 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetJobs for Arizona's Graduates: $1,404,424 over 9y, 29% of budgetSOLARI INC: $1,308,810 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth: $1,274,545 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetNeighborhood Ministries Inc: $1,149,164 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetUnited Food Bank: $1,149,014 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA: $1,129,909 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $1,034,510 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $978,392 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $881,481 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetArouet Foundation: $871,522 over 6y, 52% of budgetSTARDUST NON-PROFIT BUILDING SUPPLIES INC: $871,217 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetLODESTAR DAY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $870,586 over 2y, 23% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $826,113 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetREAD BETTER BE BETTER: $814,840 over 9y, 26% of budgetBE A LEADER FOUNDATION: $785,108 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetPHOENIX DAY: $782,963 over 2y, 36% of budgetSt Joseph the Worker: $769,284 over 9y, 10.0% of budgetDESERT MISSION INC: $752,514 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $715,195 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetEMPACT-SUICIDE PREVENTION CENTER: $713,092 over 9y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 CharitiesAZ154.9× affinity79 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
66report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 256 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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