· Private foundation
Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k247 grants · $915k
- $10k–50k109 grants · $2.4M
- $50k–250k101 grants · $9.9M
- $250k+26 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley | $1,000,000 |
| Creighton University | $750,000 |
| Maricopa County Community College District Foundation | $750,000 |
| A New Leaf | $500,000 |
| The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix | $500,000 |
| The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix | $500,000 |
| Southwest Human Development | $500,000 |
| Child Crisis Arizona | $500,000 |
| The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) | $500,000 |
| Desert Botanical Garden | $500,000 |
| Catholic Education Arizona | $425,000 |
| Arizona Autism United | $400,000 |
| Valleywise Health Foundation | $400,000 |
| Tempe Community Action Agency Inc | $400,000 |
| Hospice of the Valley | $400,000 |
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 (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 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 +29% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CUCreighton University6× · 2020–2025 · $25M · revenue +45%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $22M · revenue +93%- DCDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX6× · 2020–2025 · $15M · revenue +63%
Funded once
- SCSeton Catholic High Schoolone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- BCBourgade Catholic High Schoolone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
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.
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…
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…
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
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.
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.
Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.
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.
Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in 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…
Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.
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,…
How this is measured
443 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. 443 of the 610 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.
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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