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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.

$548k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$314kHuman Services$301kCommunity Improvement$295kEnvironment$200kHealth$200kPhilanthropy$142kInternational$135kEducation$77kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
911 DAY$100,000
GREEN OUR PLANET$100,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA$50,000
CITY OF PHOENIX - FOR THE BENEFIT OF PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$50,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$35,000
ACCESSITY$25,000
CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA$15,000
EDDY HOUSE$10,000
THE EMPOWERMENT CENTER$10,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION$10,000
SOUTHERN NEVADA REGIONAL HOUSING AUTHORITY (SNVRHA) ROSE FOUNDATION$10,000
HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA$10,000
FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA$10,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PARTNERS$10,000
CIVIC COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EARN TO LEARN: $8k → 15%THE EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $10k → 10%HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10k → 13%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $15k → 11%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 12%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 13%WORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI: $15k → 10%TMC DEVELOPMENT WORKING SOLUTIONS: $10k → 10%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $15k → 11%SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC: $8k → 11%EARN TO LEARN: $25k → 15%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $8k → 10%RYAN HOUSE: $10k → 11%SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC: $5k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $10k → 11%CASA FAMILIAR INC: $10k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 11%CASA FAMILIAR INC: $10k → 11%MESQUITE WORKS INC: $5k → 13%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC: $15k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%FRESH START WOMENS FOUNDATION: $9k → 11%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $10k → 13%SOCIAL SPIN FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$809k · 25 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
82

Total granted

$809k
$775k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+28%

Still filing today

92%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AO
    ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
    2× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +130%
  • A
    ACCESSITY
    2× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +34%
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation
    2× · 2019–2023 · $34k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -51%
  • LI
    LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +14%
  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -2%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Arizona Shelter Services Inc

The Organizations mission is to prevent and end homelessness among individuals and families while advancing compassionate community solutions.

Housing & Shelter
2
Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas

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…

Housing & Shelter
3
Canyonlands Community Health Center

The mission of canyonlands healthcare is to promote healthier lives through affordable, accessible, integrated primary care.

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4
New Vista Ranch Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Tempe Community Action Agency Inc

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…

Community Improvement
6
Mi Casa Resource Center

Advancing economic prosperity of the latino community.

Human Services
7
Friendly House Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Mercy House Living Centers

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Safe House Inc

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,…

Human Services
10
Usvets - Arizona

The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.

Housing & Shelter
11
Community Housing Partnership Inc

Providing affordable housing for low-income families in the phoenix metro area.

Housing & Shelter
12
Social Venture Partners Tucson

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…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Housing Resources Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

97 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/97
Grantees still filing
74/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF PHOENIX - FOR THE BENEFIT OF PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50,000 · OtherCITY OF PHOENIX - FOR THE BENEFIT OF PHOENIX…Our Family Services Inc: $27,500 · Other911 DAY: $100,000 · Other911 DAYNEVADA PARTNERS INC: $35,000 · Other+59 more: $517,500 · Other+59 moreLIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN: $32,500 · Human ServicesLIVE THE SOLUTIO…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSN: $25,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOU…WORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI: $25,000 · Human ServicesWORKING SOLUTION…CASA FAMILIAR INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCASA FAMILIAR IN…CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHICANOS POR LA …YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $15,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN DIEG…Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $15,000 · Human ServicesValley of the Su…SOCIAL SPIN FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL SPIN FOUN…SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesCIRCLE THE CITY: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesRYAN HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesHELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10,000 · Human Services+6 more: $38,575 · Human Services+6 moreLOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterLOW INCOME IN…HOUSING TRUST SILICON VALLEY: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING TRUST…UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $22,500 · Housing & ShelterUMOM NEW DAY …SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $22,500 · Housing & ShelterSAVE THE FAMI…NEWTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterNEWTOWN COMMU…HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $18,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING SOLUT…FAMILY HOUSING RESOURCES INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY HOUSIN…FLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC: $12,500 · Housing & ShelterFLAGSTAFF SHE…COMMUNITY SERVICES OF NEVADA: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter+4 more: $18,000 · Housing & Shelter+4 moreGREEN OUR PLANET: $200,000 · EnvironmentGREEN OUR PL…+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $40,000 · Community ImprovementACCION OPP…ACCESSITY: $35,000 · Community ImprovementACCESSITYLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INIT…ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementALLIES FOR…CIVIC COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementCIVIC COMM…CPLC NEVADA INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCPLC NEVAD…Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center: $10,000 · Community ImprovementRenaissanc…PACIFIC COAST REGIONAL SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPACIFIC CO…CDC SMALL BUSINESS FINANCE CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCDC SMALL …+2 more: $7,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican Heart Association Inc: $35,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $33,500 · HealthNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC: $25,000 · HealthCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $20,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PARTNERS: $10,000 · HealthCARE FUND: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $75,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50,000 · International
Other$730,000Human Services$273,575Housing & Shelter$228,500Environment$201,000Community Improvement$177,000Health$136,000International$125,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREEN OUR PLANET: $200,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budget911 DAY: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACCESSITY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEVADA PARTNERS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $33,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN: $32,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetOur Family Services Inc: $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSN: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING TRUST SILICON VALLEY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $22,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEWTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCASA FAMILIAR INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY HOUSING RESOURCES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIAL SPIN FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHOME START INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIC COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetA NEW LEAF INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE THE CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCPLC NEVADA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRYAN HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PARTNERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF NEVADA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetACE CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARE FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPACIFIC COAST REGIONAL SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRELLIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Wells Fargo FoundationThe Zions Bancorporat…NV Energy Charitable …Arizona Community Fou…Washington Federal Fo…Mufg Union Bank Found…United Way of Souther…The Diane and Bruce H…Mgm Resorts FoundationCiti FoundationThe Foundation for Co…Thunderbirds Charities
Wells Fargo FoundationMN48.2× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Western Alliance Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western Alliance Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    35report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Western Alliance Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Western Alliance Community 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 123 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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