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Absolon Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$168k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$346kEducation$299kArts & Culture$201kHousing & Shelter$128kHuman Services$116kCommunity Improvement$68kCrime & Legal$53kPhilanthropy$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON$55,000
SOUTHERN AZ CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$50,000
COMMUNITY GARDENS OF TUCSON$25,000
ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN$25,000
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$12,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 10%CASA DE LA LUZ FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%HANDI-DOGS: $3k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $500 → 15%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$752k · 11 repeat orgs$660k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
31

Total granted

$752k
$547k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+36%

Still filing today

91%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • University of Arizona Foundation
    3× · 2017–2023 · $144k · revenue +109%
  • TC
    TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON
    3× · 2019–2024 · $130k · revenue +58%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $115k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2018 · $120k
  • AD
    Arizona Diaper Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +81%
  • SS
    SUN SOUNDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $43k · revenue -17% · 69% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
2
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
3
Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health
4
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights
5
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
6
Aclu Foundation of Arizona

The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.

Civil Rights
7
Startup Tucson

Working to transform the region's economy through entrepreneurship and innovation.

Community Improvement
8
Arizona Theatre Company

ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.

Arts & Culture
9
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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10
Environmental Fund for Arizona Inc Dba Efaz

Efaz serves, preserves and improves az's environment by raising awareness, volunteers and finanical support through workplace giving campaigns.

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11
Startupaz Foundation

The mission of startupaz is to build a local community of entrepreneurs that want to make a positive impact in arizona.

Community Improvement
12
Arizona Technology Council

To connect and strengthen arizona's technology industry and community, promote state and federal policies that enhance arizona's technology industry, deliver quality content and events to educate those working in arizona's expanding…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Humane Society of the Wt Mtns. 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

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 49 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $120,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYTMC FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherTMC FOUNDATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $25,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMINI TIME MACHINE MUSEUM: $20,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ARIZONA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20,000 · OtherPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · OtherAngel Charity for Children Inc: $25,000 · OtherAngel Charity for Children IncYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $15,000 · OtherTHERAPEUTIC RANCH FOR ANIMALS AND KIDS: $36,000 · OtherTHERAPEUTIC RANCH FOR ANIMALS AND …COMMUNITY GARDENS OF TUCSON INC: $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY GARDENS OF TUCSON INC+15 more: $81,280 · Other+15 moreUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $144,340 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Fou…LITERACY CONNECTS: $50,500 · EducationLITERACY CONNECTSSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $40,000 · EducationSouthern AZ Research Scie…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $36,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY …SCHOLARSHIPSA Z: $28,000 · EducationSCHOLARSHIPSA ZSouthern Methodist University: $12,500 · EducationEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $11,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $115,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD AR…CHILDREN'S CLINICS FOR REHABILITATIVE SERVICES: $94,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S CLINICS FO…TMC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $63,500 · HealthTMC HEALTH FOUNDATION+2 more: $5,500 · HealthTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON: $130,000 · Arts & CultureTUCSON CHILDRE…SUN SOUNDS FOUNDATION: $43,000 · Arts & CultureSUN SOUNDS FOU…ACT ONE: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $55,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $30,000 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyArizona Diaper Bank: $75,000 · ReligionSOUTHERN AZ CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CTR INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalStep Up To Justice: $2,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$447,280Education$322,340Health$278,000Arts & Culture$181,000Philanthropy$100,500Religion$75,000Crime & Legal$52,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $144,340 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON: $130,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $115,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S CLINICS FOR REHABILITATIVE SERVICES: $94,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetArizona Diaper Bank: $75,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $55,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $50,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSOUTHERN AZ CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CTR INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSUN SOUNDS FOUNDATION: $43,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $40,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC RANCH FOR ANIMALS AND KIDS: $36,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $36,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOLARSHIPSA Z: $28,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY GARDENS OF TUCSON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetAngel Charity for Children Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Tucson Leadership Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetACT ONE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetARIZONA GRANTMAKERS FORUM: $6,880 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTUCSON PARKS FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE WT MTNS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoots & Roads Community Hospice Foundation: $2,600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHANDI-DOGS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIntegrative Touch: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Hs Lopez Family F…Connie Hillman Family…Jewish Community Foun…United Way of Tucson …Arizona Community Fou…Marshall FoundationMartin & Hildegard Gl…Vance FoundationMulcahy FoundationThomas R Brown Family…Margaret E Mooney Fou…
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ55.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Marshall Foundation · Martin & Hildegard Gluck Foundation · Vance Foundation · Mulcahy Foundation · Thomas R Brown Family Foundation · Margaret E Mooney Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Absolon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Absolon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Absolon Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Absolon Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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