· Private foundation
Alberta B Farrington Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA | $75,000 |
| VILLE DE MARIE ACADEMY | $60,000 |
| BANNER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,100 |
| CAREER CONCEPTS FOR YOUTH | $35,000 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SISTERS OF ST BENEDICT | $29,000 |
| ST MARY OF THE ANGELS | $25,000 |
| ST MARYS FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| ALTERNATIVE INTERVENTION RESEARCH CLINIC | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC | $17,975 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PHOENIX | $12,500 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -51% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VDVille de Marie Academy Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $309k · revenue +75%
- JGJUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +61%
- BHBanner Health Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- LOLIGHT OF THE WORLD FUNDone grant, 2022 · $25k
- SGSOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SKSOUTHWEST KIDS CANCER CENTERone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The university of arizona foundation is committed to supporting and enhancing the vision, mission and values of the university of arizona through the development and management of private support.
Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To advance arizona state university by enriching the lives of alumni, students and friends and fostering their lifelong connections all while continuing to provide services and programs to alumni.
Arizona's catholic tuition support organization (ctso) promotes education by providing tuition assistance to k-12 students in private schools using funds generated by the arizona tax credit programs.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The arcs foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering, and medical research.
Academic opportunity of arizona is a school tuition organization. as a local 501c3 non-profit, we provide scholarships and support for k-12th grade children living with disabilities and low-income hardships. our 360 degree approach…
To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.
The arizona cpa foundation for education and innovationin coordination with the arizona society of cpas supports programs and initiatives in education and practice which enhance excellence and innovation in the profession of accountancy.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Education Arizona and the most unlike its peers is St Dominic Savio Academy Inc Dba Story Autism Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 51 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Ville de Marie Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAREER CONCEPTS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Catholic Community Foundation for the Diocese of Phoenix ↗
- Who funds SUN ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR GOLF UNIVERSITY DBA PING JUNIOR INTERCLUB ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds PARELLI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UPWARD FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Arizona Academic Decathlon Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds University of the Pacific ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST DOMINIC SAVIO ACADEMY INC DBA STORY AUTISM CENTER ↗
- Who funds MCKENNA YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · The Thunderbirds · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Alberta B Farrington 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.
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.
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