Arizona · Private foundation
Acair 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.
- $195k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Acair Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $190k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $220k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $214k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $207k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $222k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $192k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $122k | 62% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $76k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cure International Inc | $128,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Phoenix Country Day School | $94,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Phoenix Seminary Inc | $82,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Valley Presbyterian Church | $70,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Translational Genomics Research Institute Foundation | $68,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Arizona Science Center | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jefferson Scholars Foundation | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($413k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Acair Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
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About Acair Foundation
- How much does Acair Foundation give?
- Acair Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $195,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Acair Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Public Benefit (20%), Health (12%).
- Who are Acair Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cure International Inc ($129k), Phoenix Country Day School ($94k), Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc ($85k).
- Does Acair Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Acair 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 Acair Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Acair Foundation based?
- Acair Foundation is based in AZ.
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