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A & W Bolyard Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k
Granted FY2023
27
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212023.

Religion$12kHuman Services$10kHealth$4kHousing & Shelter$3kEducation$1kYouth Development$1kFood & Nutrition$1kRecreation & Sports$750Other$0
02FY2023 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Bridget Roman Catholic Church$5,525
American Cancer Society$1,055
Alzheimers Association$1,050
Save the Family$750
Society of St Vincent de Paul$750
Sunshine Acres Chldrs Home$750
Boys & Girls Club of Valley$674
Catholic Diocese of Phoenix AZ$600
Autumn House Domestic Shelter$528
Chandler Compadres$515
Child Crisis Arizona$510
Go With the Flow Inc$500
Catholic Charity Community Services AZ$500
St Vincent de Paul-St Bridget Conf$500
Aliento via ActBlue Charities$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%American Stroke Foundation: $300 → 5%Bridging AZ Furniture Bank: $500 → 11%Catholic Charities Community Services AZ: $500 → 11%Circle the City: $311 → 11%Circle the City: $100 → 11%Sunshine Acres Children's Home: $750 → 11%Sunshine Acres Chldrs Home: $750 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$25k · 16 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
10

Total granted

$25k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-6%

Still filing today

44%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionCrime & LegalFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

  • DC
    DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +24%
  • SA
    SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +44%
  • CC
    CHANDLER COMPADRES INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SB
    St Bridget Catholic Church
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • BG
    Boys Girls Club of Valley
    one grant, 2022 · $650
  • ST
    SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
2
Arizona's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services
3
Umom New Day Centers Inc

To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.

Housing & Shelter
4
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
5
Arizona Safe Baby Haven Foundation

Promotes Safe Haven education and awareness on the existing Safe Haven Law in Arizona to prevent the illegal abandonment of infants across the state.

Human Services
6
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
7
Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona

The Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona (CareAz) is a community-based organization dedicated to reducing the harmful effects of substance use disorder through comprehensive prevention, treatment, recovery, and reentry support.…

Health
8
Codac Health Recovery & Wellness

Codac provides tools, support and services to individuals, families, and communities so they may live with dignity, free from the harmful effects of mental illness, substance use disorders and trauma.

9
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
10
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
11
Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services

The children's clinics provides a family centered comprehensive medical home to meet the special needs of children and families.

Health
12
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Family Foundation of Arizona and the most unlike its peers is First Way Pregnancy Center. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

St Bridget Roman Catholic Church — $9,887 · OtherSt Bridget Roman Catholic ChurchSave the Family — $1,500 · OtherSave the FamilyAlzheimers Association — $1,350 · OtherCHANDLER COMPADRES INC — $1,339 · OtherSt Bridget Catholic Church — $1,135 · OtherAmerican Cancer Society — $1,055 · OtherGO WITH THE FLOW INC — $1,000 · Other+18 more — $8,316 · Other+18 moreSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE A…BRIDGING AZ FURNITURE BANK — $500 · Human ServicesBRIDGING A…CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC C…CIRCLE THE CITY — $411 · Human ServicesCIRCLE THE…AMERICAN STROKE FOUNDATION — $300 · Human ServicesAMERICAN S…DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $1,800 · ReligionCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA — $1,020 · Crime & LegalST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $1,000 · Food & NutritionSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA — $500 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF REFUGE INC — $415 · Housing & ShelterAmerican Heart Association Inc — $614 · HealthMESA ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION — $300 · Arts & Culture
Other$25,582Human Services$3,211Religion$1,800Crime & Legal$1,020Food & Nutrition$1,000Housing & Shelter$915Health$614Arts & Culture$300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHANDLER COMPADRES INC — $1,339 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA — $1,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $614 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGING AZ FURNITURE BANK — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF REFUGE INC — $415 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE THE CITY — $411 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST WAY PREGNANCY CENTER — $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN STROKE FOUNDATION — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMESA ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
  • Who funds SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC
  • Who funds CHANDLER COMPADRES INC
  • Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA
  • Who funds BRIDGING AZ FURNITURE BANK
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds HOUSE OF REFUGE INC
  • Who funds CIRCLE THE CITY
  • Who funds FIRST WAY PREGNANCY CENTER
  • Who funds AMERICAN STROKE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MESA ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION

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.

Thunderbirds CharitiesAZ17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Mesa United Way Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Otto & Edna Neely Foundation · Arizona Cardinals Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Dignity Health

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 A & W Bolyard 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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