Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona
Flagstaff, AZ · EIN 81-3137336. Reported 39 grants totalling $25.6M to 25 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for health care (NTEE E12).
- How spread out its giving is. 25 distinct organizations, with 87% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 17% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $86,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $130,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $22.1M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
4 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $40,393 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Arizona Healthcare Corporation | Flagstaff, AZ | $22.3M | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Flagstaff Medical Center | Flagstaff, AZ | $745,646 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Creek Valley Health Clinic | Colorado City, AZ | $297,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Northern Arizona University Fdn Inc | Flagstaff, AZ | $237,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Arizonas Children Association | Phoenix, AZ | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Griffith Blue Heart | Glendale, AZ | $201,206 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Flagstaff Shelter Services Inc | Flagstaff, AZ | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Steps to Recovery Homes | Cottonwood, AZ | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| West Yavapai Guidance Clinic | Prescott Valley, AZ | $176,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| United Way of Northern Arizona | Flagstaff, AZ | $130,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| North Country Healthcare Inc | Flagstaff, AZ | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Red Feather Development Group | Flagstaff, AZ | $119,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Sedona Oak Creek Joint Unified School District #9 | Sedona, AZ | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Verde Valley Medical Center | Cottonwood, AZ | $96,905 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Technical Assistance Partnership of Arizona | Phoenix, AZ | $82,286 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Verde Valley Caregivers Coalition | Sedona, AZ | $54,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Manzanita Outreach | Cottonwood, AZ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| United States Veterans Initiative | Los Angeles, CA | $46,547 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Hopi Foundation Lomasuminagwtukwsiumani | Kykotsmovi, AZ | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jerry Ambrose Veterans Council of Mohave County Inc | Kingman, AZ | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Kingman Healthcare Inc | Kingman, AZ | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Flagstaff Symphony Association | Flagstaff, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop | Sedona, AZ | $19,591 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation | Tuba City, AZ | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| White Mountain Regional Medical Center | Springerville, AZ | $15,128 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
11 of 25 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Northern Arizona Healthcare Corporation
GRANTS TO SUPPORT HOSPICE HOME CARE, CARDIOLOGY RESEARCH, NATIVE AMERICAN PATIENT ASSISTANCE, CANCER CENTER, CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION, THE TAYLOR HOUSE, PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT, DIABETES EDUCATION, CRITICAL CARE, TELEMEDICINE, PATIENT ASSISTANCE AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH - Flagstaff Medical Center
GRANTS TO SUPPORT HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT INITIATIVES INCLUDING PALLIATIVE CARE, PEDIATRIC TRAUMA, CHILDREN'S HEALTH, NATIVE AMERICAN INTERPRETER PROGRAM, PANDEMIC MITIGATION AND OTHER PATIENT SUPPORT. - Northern Arizona Healthcare
GRANTS TO SUPPORT SPECIAL CARE NURSERY DEPARTMENT FAMILY INTEGRATED CARE PROGRAM AND ONE NAH SPIRITUAL CARE PROGRAM AND GRANTS TO SUPPORT HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT INITIATIVES INCLUDING PATIENT EDUCATION & NAH COLLEAGUE SUPPORT. - Northern Arizona University Foundation
CONTRIBUTION TO SUPPORT A NURSING SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM AND GRANTS TO SUPPORT NAU HEALTHCARE THEATRE PROGRAM - IMPROVING BEHAVIORAL HEALTH THROUGH STANDARDIZED PATIENTS. - Arizona's Children Association
GRANT TO SUPPORT THE EXPANSION OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN LAKE HAVASU CITY AND MOHAVE COUNTY BY LAUNCHING A NEW OUTPATIENT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES PROGRAM THAT SPECIALIZES IN THE TREATMENT AND SUPPORT OF CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES. - Flagstaff Shelter Services
GRANTS TO SUPPORT THE HOUSING AS HEALTHCARE PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 of 25 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 16 | $2,080,201 | $108,751 |
| 2021 | 9 | $530,658 | $70,000 |
| 2022 | 6 | $22.4M | $60,000 |
| 2023 | 8 | $631,431 | $86,143 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in Arizona. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $86,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Arizona.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 8 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1120 W University Street Ste 200, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001.
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