· Public charity
West Valley Lutheran Thrift Shop
Operators of a thrift shop manned by volunteer workers.
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.
The 22 grants below total $310,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $347,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $266k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAVAJO EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN MISSION | $28,000 |
| WEST VALLEY COMM FOOD PANTRY | $26,000 |
| BENEVILLA | $24,000 |
| PAN DE VIDA LUTHERAN CHURCH | $24,000 |
| GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| ALOMA | $20,000 |
| APECA | $16,000 |
| DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER | $16,000 |
| HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $14,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $14,000 |
| PRISONERS OF HOPE MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $12,000 |
| NEW LIFE CENTER | $10,000 |
| MOSIAC | $10,000 |
| GRAND CANYON SYNOD | $10,000 |
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, $509k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- SCSUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC DBA BENEVILLA9× · 2017–2025 · $201k · revenue +64%
- DCDYSART COMMUNITY CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +229%
New Life Center8× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- HCHOPE CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $32k
- YLYOUNG LIFE - PEORIAone grant, 2024 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
A resource and day-center for seniors, age 55+, providing guidance and support on the PATH back to housing; and CARE supportive services to prevent a return to homelessness.
Since 1957, SRM has provided safe emergency shelter, meals, and clothing to anyone in need. All participants are experiencing homelessness and living below the federal poverty line at intake. Located in Flagstaff, we have three facilities.…
To provide emergency shelter and supportive services to victims of domestic and sexual violence.
AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.
Goldensun is a nonprofit, faith-based community serving 15 adults with developmental disabilities residing in a neighborhood on West Vista and West Orangewood near 45th Avenue in Glendale, Arizona.
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Our holistic approach prepares and embraces individuals to age independently, safely and with peace of mind.
Rooted in the values of kindness, dignity and social justice, lfsrm strenghtens communities by providing support, guidance, and resource coordination to individuals and families throughout the rocky mountain region.
It is the mission of Arizona Faith and Families to recruit foster and adoptive parents from within the Christian church, to train and license them within a biblical world view, and to equip them to serve their Savior, home, church, and…
Our mission is to love, house, and equip men, women and children. coming from chronic unemployment, recovery, or an endless cycle of homelessness, our residents experience a clean, safe home where transforming their life can begin.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest and the most unlike its peers is Dysart Community Center. 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 38 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
11 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. 11 of the 53 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
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 SUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC DBA BENEVILLA ↗
- Who funds Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds New Life Center ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds BILLY'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND ↗
- Who funds RYAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 West Valley Lutheran Thrift Shop 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.
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.
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