· Private foundation
Abbett Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $344k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $160,000 |
| ASU FOUNDATION | $121,316 |
| ASU GAMMAGE FOUNDATION | $63,000 |
| ST MARYS FOOD BANK | $35,000 |
| THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $2,000 |
| EPIC DISABILITY ADVOCACY | $1,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YOYOUTH ON THEIR OWN6× · 2019–2025 · $584k · revenue +54%
- AAARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC2× · 2017–2018 · $450k · revenue +678%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2025 · $447k · revenue +196%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $15k
- CECOLINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $12k
- MHMHC HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
To elevate the teaching profession in southern arizona by empowering and celebrating prek-12 teacher excellence through community engagement and investment.
Goodwill Industries of Southern Arizona works toward ensuring that all people have the opportunity to reach their potential and contribute to our community. Through quality, evidence-based, workforce development programs; Goodwill…
To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.
To advocate for and act on education improvements that advance the quality of life for all arizonans.
Creighton community foundation's (ccf) core program "community works" leverages neighborhood schools to support vibrant communities in the poorest parts of urban phoenix, where neighborhoods suffer from poverty- driven disadvantage and…
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Tucson Conquistadores Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Abbett Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abbett Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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