Arizona · Nonprofit
VALLEYLIFE
VALLEYLIFE (Arizona) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $442,361 to it, the largest being THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES ($55,967). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $442k
- Net assets
- $12M
What Valleylife does
Mission
To enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential services - Valleylife owns or leases residential group homes in the northwest area of maricopa county. Each home can accommodate up to six (6) developmentally disabled residents. Basic living skills are taught and self-sufficiency is encouraged and maintained. During the year, 92 clients were served.
$11,022,846 spentof which $586,836 as grants$11,761,065 earned by the program73% of program spendingDay services - day services provides a curriculum to developmentally disabled individuals that is exceptionally diverse, concentrating on activities which will increase and maintain independent functioning of each participant. Programs are designed to optimize each individual's community living skills and to refine their personal and social skills. During the year, 113 clients were served.
$2,373,763 spentof which $56,957 as grants$2,761,285 earned by the program16% of program spendingVocational services - provides job readiness training, paid work training, support to maintain employment, and job placement for individuals with a variety of disabilities and barriers to employment. During the year, 292 clients were served.
$950,426 spentof which $18 as grants$868,003 earned by the program6% of program spendingHcbs services - provide respite, attendant care, housekeeping, companion care, and habilitation services to clients in their homes to assist or relieve the primary care giver. During the year, 21 members were served.
$767,784 spent$742,531 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,114,819.
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 $11M to $15M (+31%).
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 2% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2021 17% · 2022 10% · 2023 20% · 2024 9% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of VALLEYLIFE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Cletus Thiebeau
President/CEO
Board chair
Steve Mckamey
Board chair (thru 2/25)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $21k → $59k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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: $87k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Valleylife Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money VALLEYLIFE raised.
From the IRS filings of VALLEYLIFE’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
VALLEYLIFE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 VALLEYLIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 21% · 2019 40% · 2020 24% · 2021 29% · 2022 24% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
47% of VALLEYLIFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
79% of VALLEYLIFE's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
VALLEYLIFE is better cushioned than half of the 290 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 290 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like VALLEYLIFE
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Valleylife Foundation · exempt
- Valley of the Sun School Properties One · exempt
- Valley of the Sun School Properties Two · exempt
- Valley of the Sun School Properties Three · exempt
- Valley of the Sun School Properties Four · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VALLEYLIFE: 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 VALLEYLIFE?
- VALLEYLIFE (Arizona) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $442,361 to it, the largest being THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES ($55,967). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALLEYLIFE have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $442,361 in grants to VALLEYLIFE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALLEYLIFE?
- THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES is the largest funder on record, with $55,967 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALLEYLIFE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing