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Western Alliance Community Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 911 DAY | $100,000 |
| GREEN OUR PLANET | $100,000 |
| CITY OF PHOENIX - FOR THE BENEFIT OF PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $35,000 |
| ACCESSITY | $25,000 |
| CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| EDDY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $10,000 |
| CIVIC COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN NEVADA REGIONAL HOUSING AUTHORITY (SNVRHA) ROSE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CASA FAMILIAR INC | $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 (FY19–24, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k 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
- AOACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT2× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +130%
- AACCESSITY2× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +34%
- PCPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation2× · 2019–2023 · $34k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -51%
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -2%- LILOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUNDone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +14%
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.
The Organizations mission is to prevent and end homelessness among individuals and families while advancing compassionate community solutions.
Habitat for humanity las vegas, inc. (habitat) a not-for-profit organization located in las vegas, nevada was established in 1990. habitat's purpose is to build low cost houses with the help of the homeowner families, which are transferred…
The mission of canyonlands healthcare is to promote healthier lives through affordable, accessible, integrated primary care.
New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.
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…
Advancing economic prosperity of the latino community.
Friendly house, inc. is dedicated to empowering arizona communities through education and human services. established in 1920, the organization has evolved into a multi-service agency addressing the diverse needs of individuals and…
Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…
S.a.f.e. house is a community based non-profit organization committed to stop abuse in the family environment by providing a comprehensive approach to end domestic violence that includes crisis intervention, safe shelter, counseling,…
The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
Providing affordable housing for low-income families in the phoenix metro area.
Svp tucson is an ever expanding community of engaged philanthropists dedicated to building the capacity, strength and impact of nonprofits in addressing social problems. we accomplish this through: thoughtful and strategic investments and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Housing Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Microcare Community Development Solutions. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
97 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. 97 of the 123 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 GREEN OUR PLANET ↗
- Who funds 911 DAY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NEVADA PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESSITY ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds Our Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING TRUST SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSN ↗
- Who funds WORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA ↗
- Who funds NEWTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CASA FAMILIAR INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HEROES LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL SPIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOME START INC ↗
- Who funds Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC ↗
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: Wells Fargo Foundation · The Zions Bancorporation Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · United Way of Southern Nevada · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Citi Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Thunderbirds Charities
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 Western Alliance Community 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.
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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