Arizona · Nonprofit
Northwest Valley Connect
Northwest Valley Connect (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,353 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($195,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $444k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $522k
- Net assets
- $125k
What Northwest Valley Connect does
Mission
To provide free or low-cost transportation services to seniors, adults with disabilities and veterans who have no other means of transportation.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Since 2014 Northwest Valley Connect has assisted low-income seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities who do not have access to, or cannot afford, transportation. Serving the cities of Peoria, El Mirage, Sun City, Sun City West, Surprise and Youngtown, our mission is to provide mobility options empowering the people we serve to take care of their healthcare needs, maintain independence, and participate more fully in community life. More than 60 percent of NVCs clients have an annual income less than $30,000 and 80 percent of our clients are over the age of 65. Over the past year, the new administration has guided NVC and its board of directors through a comprehensive organizational assessment, making appropriate modifications to increase ridership and better meet the transportation needs in our community. Through the assessment, we gleaned invaluable insights into our strengths, challenges, and areas for improvement. After conducting a series of one-on-one interviews with key stakeholders and a thorough examination of our programs, people, finances and systems, we have put key strategies in place for enhancing our sustainability and impact, while being more scrupulous in how…
$532,152 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $532,152.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $335k to $125k (−63%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 30% · 2019 24% · 2020 65% · 2021 44% · 2022 50% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Northwest Valley Connect’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Debbie Gross
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $75k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $13k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arizona Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Northwest Valley Connect raised.
From the IRS filings of Northwest Valley Connect’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Northwest Valley Connect leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Northwest Valley Connect.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 52% · 2022 50% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
78% of Northwest Valley Connect's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $253 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Northwest Valley Connect's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,056 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Northwest Valley Connect
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Northwest Valley Connect: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Northwest Valley Connect?
- Northwest Valley Connect (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,353 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($195,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Northwest Valley Connect have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $522,353 in grants to Northwest Valley Connect, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northwest Valley Connect?
- Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $195,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northwest Valley Connect find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing