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Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24M
Granted FY2025still arriving
483
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$66MArts & Culture$56MHuman Services$46MHealth$42MReligion$28MYouth Development$24MHousing & Shelter$16MCommunity Improvement$4.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 483 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k247 grants · $915k
  • $10k–50k109 grants · $2.4M
  • $50k–250k101 grants · $9.9M
  • $250k+26 grants · $11M
$7,500
Median grant
23
States reached
$430M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley$1,000,000
Maricopa County Community College District Foundation$750,000
Creighton University$750,000
Southwest Human Development$500,000
A New Leaf$500,000
Child Crisis Arizona$500,000
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)$500,000
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix$500,000
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix$500,000
Desert Botanical Garden$500,000
Catholic Education Arizona$425,000
Valleywise Health Foundation$400,000
Hospice of the Valley$400,000
Arizona Autism United$400,000
Tempe Community Action Agency Inc$400,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $29.0M) 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.

area typical 10%Child & Family Resources Inc: $100k → 15%Elaine: $103k → 11%Foothills Caring Corps Inc: $100k → 11%New Life Center: $250k → 11%New Life Center: $250k → 11%New Life Center: $100k → 11%LifeStream Complete Senior Living Inc: $297k → 11%Valley of the Sun YMCA: $2.3M → 11%Valley of the Sun YMCA: $600k → 11%Valley of the Sun YMCA: $175k → 11%Valley of the Sun YMCA: $150k → 11%Friendly House Inc: $100k → 11%Benevilla: $2.0M → 11%Open Hearts: $330k → 11%Benevilla: $304k → 11%Open Hearts: $150k → 11%Benevilla: $100k → 11%Catholic Charities Community Services: $150k → 11%Benevilla: $100k → 11%Benevilla: $100k → 11%Open Hearts: $100k → 11%Catholic Charities Community Services: $100k → 11%Catholic Charities Community Services: $100k → 11%Aster Aging Inc: $135k → 11%Aster Aging Inc: $100k → 11%Catholic Charities Community Services: $4.0M → 11%Ryan House: $675k → 11%Circle the City: $180k → 11%The Beatitudes Campus: $500k → 11%Circle the City: $125k → 11%Circle the City: $100k → 11%Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc: $100k → 11%Catholic Charities Community Services: $100k → 11%Chicanos Por La Causa Inc: $1.5M → 11%Ability360: $500k → 11%Arizona Autism United: $500k → 11%Arizona Autism United: $400k → 11%Arizona Autism United: $400k → 11%Arizona Autism United: $140k → 11%Raising Special Kids: $130k → 11%Arizona Autism United: $125k → 11%Chicanos Por La Causa Inc: $125k → 11%Zion Institute: $750k → 11%Jewish Family and Children's Service: $2.0M → 11%Jewish Family and Children's Service: $500k → 11%Hospice of the Valley: $425k → 11%Hospice of the Valley: $425k → 11%Hospice of the Valley: $400k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MT
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WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
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VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$291M · 382 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

382 repeat relationships — 266 still active in FY2025, 116 since wound down; 61 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

382
155

Total granted

$291M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+6%

Still filing today

73%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CU
    Creighton University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $25M · revenue +45%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $22M · revenue +93%
  • DC
    DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15M · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • ND
    Notre Dame Preparatory High School
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • BC
    Bourgade Catholic High School
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • SC
    Seton Catholic High School
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
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
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

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4
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
5
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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6
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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7
Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health
8
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

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9
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health
10
Home Matters to Arizona

Home matters to arizona is the first statewide home matters initiative focused on a new generation of affordable housing, connected communities, and healthier individuals, families, and economies. we add housing units while encouraging…

Housing & Shelter
11
Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

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12
Arc of Arizona Inc

Advocates for the rights and participation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. together with our network of members and affiliated chapters, we improve systems of support, connect families, inspire communication,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Place Az and the most unlike its peers is Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%2%<5yr17%8%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr10%26%35–55yr12%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%1%<5yr17%2%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr10%36%35–55yr12%39%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%4/493
the rest of the field
16%
4,461/27,992

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.

04the grantee network

443 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. 443 of the 610 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.

27
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
96
Early backer (in before they grew)
436/443
Grantees still filing
285/443
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix — $11,844,000 · OtherThe Roman Catholic Diocese of PhoenixThe Salvation Army — $9,270,900 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC — $7,600,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INCWestern Spirit Scottsdale's Museum of the West — $6,278,500 · OtherWestern Spirit Scottsdale's Museum of t…+86 more — $68,614,954 · Other+86 moreCreighton University — $25,045,000 · EducationCreighton Universit…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $21,744,545 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVE…THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION — $2,197,272 · Education+9 more — $2,856,400 · Education+9 morePHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $8,171,000 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX SYMPHONY …PHOENIX ART MUSEUM — $4,920,743 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX ART MUSEU…THE HEARD MUSEUM — $4,277,755 · Arts & CultureTHE HEARD MUSEUMBALLET ARIZONA — $3,430,500 · Arts & CultureBALLET ARIZONAARIZONA OPERA COMPANY — $3,370,500 · Arts & CultureARIZONA OPERA COM…THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY — $2,680,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHOENIX THEAT…SCOTTSDALE ARTS — $2,215,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX — $2,172,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDSPLAY INC — $1,711,085 · Arts & CultureArizona Theatre Company — $1,675,000 · Arts & Culture+23 more — $10,817,647 · Arts & Culture+23 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $4,733,900 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHA…Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association — $3,190,000 · Human ServicesValley of th…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $3,125,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMIL…SUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC DBA BENEVILLA — $2,787,000 · Human ServicesSUN CITY ARE…CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC — $2,195,650 · Human ServicesCHICANOS POR…ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC — $1,815,000 · Human ServicesARIZONA AUTI…MAGGIE'S PLACE INC — $1,570,500 · Human ServicesHospice of the Valley — $1,511,500 · Human ServicesZION INSTITUTE — $1,175,000 · Human Services+23 more — $9,567,781 · Human Services+23 moreVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $6,511,500 · HealthVALLEYWISE …HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION — $3,776,000 · HealthHONORHEALTH…NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC — $3,529,900 · HealthNATIVE AMER…SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER — $3,160,638 · HealthSOUTHWEST A…A NEW LEAF — $2,585,000 · HealthA NEW LEAFFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN — $2,534,000 · HealthFOUNDATION …Banner Health Foundation — $1,502,500 · HealthADELANTE HEALTHCAREINC — $1,465,000 · Health+11 more — $4,727,742 · Health+11 moreDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $14,998,925 · ReligionPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $1,655,000 · ReligionLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST — $749,900 · Religion+3 more — $1,095,250 · ReligionUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $3,674,900 · Housing & ShelterCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC — $3,264,900 · Housing & ShelterHuman Services Campus Inc — $2,101,000 · Housing & ShelterFIRST PLACE AZ — $1,383,000 · Housing & ShelterRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc — $1,362,000 · Housing & ShelterSTARDUST NON-PROFIT BUILDING SUPPLIES INC — $553,500 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING SOUTHWEST — $452,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $170,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$103,608,354Education$51,843,217Arts & Culture$45,441,730Human Services$31,671,831Health$29,792,280Religion$18,499,075Housing & Shelter$12,961,800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCreighton University — $25,045,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $21,744,545 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $14,998,925 over 6y, 12% of budgetPHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $8,171,000 over 6y, 39% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC — $7,600,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $6,511,500 over 6y, 24% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM — $4,920,743 over 6y, 28% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $4,733,900 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $4,277,755 over 4y, 27% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION — $3,776,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $3,674,900 over 5y, 12% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC — $3,529,900 over 6y, 10% of budgetBALLET ARIZONA — $3,430,500 over 6y, 19% of budgetARIZONA OPERA COMPANY — $3,370,500 over 6y, 22% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC — $3,264,900 over 6y, 10% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC — $3,230,500 over 6y, 25% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association — $3,190,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER — $3,160,638 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $3,125,500 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SENIOR LIVING — $3,027,134 over 5y, 29% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $2,897,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED — $2,825,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC DBA BENEVILLA — $2,787,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetTHE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY — $2,680,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA — $2,663,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetA NEW LEAF — $2,585,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN — $2,534,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,515,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC — $2,339,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSCOTTSDALE ARTS — $2,215,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION — $2,197,272 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC — $2,195,650 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX — $2,172,500 over 5y, 23% of budgetHuman Services Campus Inc — $2,101,000 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC — $1,815,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDSPLAY INC — $1,711,085 over 5y, 23% of budgetArizona Theatre Company — $1,675,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $1,655,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE INC — $1,570,500 over 6y, 31% of budgetHospice of the Valley — $1,511,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBanner Health Foundation — $1,502,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetADELANTE HEALTHCAREINC — $1,465,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFIRST PLACE AZ — $1,383,000 over 6y, 21% of budget1N10 INC — $1,370,500 over 6y, 23% of budgetRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc — $1,362,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetZION INSTITUTE — $1,175,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA — $1,145,053 over 6y, 18% of budgetDUET PARTNERS IN HEALTH & AGING INC — $1,131,000 over 6y, 28% of budget
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 Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA OPERA COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC ↗
  • Who funds Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR LIVING ↗
  • Who funds MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC DBA BENEVILLA ↗
  • Who funds THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds A NEW LEAF ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds SCOTTSDALE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds Human Services Campus 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.

Thunderbirds CharitiesArizona Community Fou…The Foundation for Co…BHHS Legacy FoundationNina Mason Pulliam Ch…Valley of the Sun Uni…The Diane and Bruce H…John F Long Foundatio…Phoenix Suns Charitie…Burton Family Foundat…Mercy CareFiesta Events Inc
Thunderbirds CharitiesAZ237.1× affinity135 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thunderbirds Charities · Arizona Community Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Valley of the Sun United Way · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Burton Family Foundation · Mercy Care · Fiesta Events Inc

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 Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    82report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 610 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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