Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersMostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →
Plinth

· Public charity

West Valley Mavericks Foundation

The WEST VALLEY MAVERICKS FOUNDATION aims to develop and support programs that serve to improve the quality and future of our community.

$202k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of WEST VALLEY MAVERICKS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $80,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $201,519 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $121,519 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC$55,000
HOPEKIDS INC$15,000
DAVID GLASSER FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $44k) 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.

area typical 9%DRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX: $8k → 11%BILLY'S PLACE INC: $7k → 11%NEW LIFE CENTER: $13k → 11%NEW LIFE CENTER: $8k → 11%DELIVERING DREAMS OF ARIZONA: $10k → 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.

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$509k · 12 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$509k
$169k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

75%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $130k · revenue +5%
  • RB
    READ BETTER BE BETTER
    4× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +314%
  • TA
    THE ARIZONA AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FFA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2024 · $44k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF PHOENIX MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $49k · revenue 0% · 42% of their budget
  • MO
    MEALS OF JOY
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -94%
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +52%

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
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Az Hugs
Human Services
3
The Dons of Arizona
Education
4
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
—
5
Laced With Love

To provide resources to children in AZ DCS Custody

Human Services
6
Four Angels Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Dream Foundation Arizona
Employment
8
Phoenix Rising Hope Foundation
Philanthropy
9
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
10
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
11
Arizona Sunshine Angels

Arizona sunshine angels supports approximately 700 children living in residential group homes across 11 agencies in maricopa county by providing clothing, hygiene products, food assistance, mentoring, and birthday, holiday, and academic…

Human Services
12
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.

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Arizona Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arizona Safe Baby Haven Foundation. 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

22 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. 22 of the 25 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/22
Grantees still filing
11/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAKE-A-WISH OF ARIZONA — $113,395 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH OF ARIZONACITY OF PHOENIX MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION INC — $48,500 · OtherCITY OF PHOENIX MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION…THE ARIZONA AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FFA FOUNDATION — $43,500 · OtherTHE ARIZONA AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FFA FOUNDATI…FIGHTER COUNTRY PARTNERSHIP INC — $25,500 · OtherFIGHTER COUNTRY PARTNERSHIP INCMEALS OF JOY — $20,000 · OtherMEALS OF JOYBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN PHOENIX INC — $16,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN PHOENIX INC+3 more — $18,600 · Other+3 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC — $130,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARI…HOPEKIDS INC — $21,000 · HealthHOPEKIDS INCPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $20,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital F…TEAMSMILE INC — $7,500 · HealthANGELS ON PATROL INC — $24,500 · Human ServicesANGELS ON PAT…New Life Center — $20,050 · Human ServicesNew Life Cent…ARIZONA SAFE BABY HAVEN FOUNDATION — $14,000 · Human ServicesARIZONA SAFE …Delivering Dreams of Arizona — $10,000 · Human ServicesDelivering Dr…DRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX — $7,500 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUC…BILLY'S PLACE INC — $6,500 · Human ServicesBILLY'S PLACE…READ BETTER BE BETTER — $52,000 · EducationARIZONANS FOR THE PROTECTION OF EXPLOITED CHILDREN AND ADULTS — $17,500 · Crime & LegalBRIDGES REENTRY INC — $15,000 · Crime & LegalARIZONA ASSISTANCE IN HEALTH CARE INC — $31,800 · Housing & ShelterTHE UNITED GOODYEAR FIREFIGHTER CHARITIES — $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DAVID GLASSER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$285,495Health$178,500Human Services$82,550Education$52,000Crime & Legal$32,500Housing & Shelter$31,800Philanthropy$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC — $130,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetREAD BETTER BE BETTER — $52,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCITY OF PHOENIX MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION INC — $48,500 over 1y, 42% of budgetTHE ARIZONA AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FFA FOUNDATION — $43,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetARIZONA ASSISTANCE IN HEALTH CARE INC — $31,800 over 4y, 20% of budgetFIGHTER COUNTRY PARTNERSHIP INC — $25,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetANGELS ON PATROL INC — $24,500 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew Life Center — $20,050 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS OF JOY — $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONANS FOR THE PROTECTION OF EXPLOITED CHILDREN AND ADULTS — $17,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN PHOENIX INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGES REENTRY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetDelivering Dreams of Arizona — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION FREEDOM BIRD — $7,500 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetTEAMSMILE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBILLY'S PLACE INC — $6,500 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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 CharitiesJohn F Long Foundatio…Arizona Community Fou…BHHS Legacy FoundationNina Mason Pulliam Ch…Fiesta Events IncPhoenix Suns Charitie…United Way WorldwideAmerican Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Thunderbirds CharitiesAZ24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thunderbirds Charities · John F Long Foundation Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Fiesta Events Inc · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Mavericks Foundation 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to West Valley Mavericks Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to West Valley Mavericks Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 25 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home
    State money flows
    the interactive map of money crossing state lines