Arizona · Private foundation
APS Foundation Inc
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.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 66%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 47
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $48M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 66% of the organizations APS Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 | 36 | $2.2M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $2.7M | 66% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $1.9M | 54% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $2.2M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $2.0M | 96% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $950k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Science Center | $1,800,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation | $1,500,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $744,923 | 5 | 0% |
| Northern Arizona University Foundation | $584,520 | 4 | 1% |
| American Indian College Fund | $500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Arizona Foundation | $393,944 | 5 | 0% |
| Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix | $325,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Arizona Educational Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Arizona Science Teachers Association | $273,000 | 2 | 54% |
| Child Crisis Arizona | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
APS Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Burton Family Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Helios Education Foundation · Garcia Family Foundation · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
How this is measured
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About APS Foundation Inc
- How much does APS Foundation Inc give?
- APS Foundation Inc reported 43 grants totaling $2,259,225 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 47 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does APS Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Science & Tech (18%), Health (13%).
- Who are APS Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Arizona Science Center ($1.8M), Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ($1.5M), Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University ($745k).
- Does APS Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 66% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does APS Foundation Inc 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 APS Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Burton Family Foundation, Thunderbirds Charities.
- Where is APS Foundation Inc based?
- APS Foundation Inc is based in AZ.
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