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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
27
Organizations funded FY2023
41%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$500
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,525
Organizations funded a year
6 to 27
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 41% of the organizations A & W Bolyard Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Human ServicesReligionCrime & LegalFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202327$19k41%
FY202221$13k95%
FY20216$2kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget A & W Bolyard Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCatholic Charities Community Services Inc: $500 over 1y, 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 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

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

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.

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About A & W Bolyard Foundation

How much does A & W Bolyard Foundation give?
A & W Bolyard Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $18,991 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 27 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does A & W Bolyard Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Human Services (28%), Health (12%).
Who are A & W Bolyard Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix ($2k), Sunshine Acres Children's Home Inc ($2k), Chandler Compadres Inc ($1k).
Does A & W Bolyard Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does A & W Bolyard Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as A & W Bolyard Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thunderbirds Charities, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust, Arizona Community Foundation.
Where is A & W Bolyard Foundation based?
A & W Bolyard Foundation is based in AZ.

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 37 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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