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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 FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$4.6MScience & Tech$2.2MHealth$1.6MYouth Development$493kHuman Services$485kArts & Culture$416kHousing & Shelter$390kCommunity Improvement$387kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $474k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$40,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Society of St Vincent de Paul$300,000
The Phoenix Theatre Company$250,000
The Salvation Army Southwest Division$100,000
Tempe Community Action Agency Inc$100,000
Arizona Educational Foundation Inc$100,000
American Indian College Fund$100,000
ASU Foundation for a New American University$88,883
Northern Arizona University Foundation Inc$80,000
ASU Foundation For A New American University$71,500
Northern Arizona University Foundation Inc$70,000
The University of Arizona Foundation$55,000
Clarkdale Foundation Inc$50,000
Year Up United$50,000
KnowledgeWorks Foundation$50,000
SARSEF$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Agape House of Prescott: $40k → 14%Valley Of The Sun Young Mens Christian Association: $25k → 11%Valley of the Sun YMCA: $15k → 11%Valley of the Sun Young Mens Christian Association: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
NM
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.2M · 32 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
89

Total granted

$8.2M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+7%

Still filing today

84%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $831k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AS
    ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.8M · revenue +71%
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +15%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $745k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • CC
    CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +18%
  • UA
    USS ARIZONA LEGACY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +397%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Education Forward Arizona

To advocate for and act on education improvements that advance the quality of life for all arizonans.

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2
Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence Inc

The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.

Education
3
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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4
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
5
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
6
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

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7
Science Foundation Arizona

Science foundation arizona's mission is to diversify arizona's economy by investing in scientific and engineering research linked to industry needs and investing in education to create a work force with 21st centrury skills.

Philanthropy
8
Tucson Values Teachers

To elevate the teaching profession in southern arizona by empowering and celebrating prek-12 teacher excellence through community engagement and investment.

Employment
9
Arizona Center for Community College Success

To bring arizona's community colleges together to share ideas, collaborate, and drive meaningful change. we act as a statewide hub providing colleges best practices, annual convenings, and professional development.

Education
10
Arizona Forward Association

Arizona Forward brings business and civic leaders together to promote cooperative efforts to improve the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of our state and local regions.

Community Improvement
11
Southern Arizona Leadership Council Inc

To improve greater tucson and the state of arizona by bringing together resources and leadership to enhance the economic climate and quality of life in our communities.

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12
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Science Center and the most unlike its peers is Uss Arizona Legacy Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health ClinicsVeterans Service Organizati…Performing Arts Organizatio…Private School Scholarship …Youth Sports ProgramsAffordable Housing & Suppor…Family & Recovery HousingArizona Museums & Conservat…Accelerated Charter SchoolsProfessional Trade Associat…Food Banks and Hunger ReliefChild Welfare & Foster Care…University Research Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr18%37%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr11%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr12%54%35–55yr11%19%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/84
the rest of the field
14%
5,952/44,091

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.

04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 141 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/81
Grantees still filing
45/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $744,923 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT…NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $584,520 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUN…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $500,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUNDUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $393,944 · EducationUniversity of Arizona FoundationUSS ARIZONA LEGACY FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EducationUSS ARIZONA LEGACY FOUNDATIONYEAR UP INC — $150,000 · Education+20 more — $876,587 · Education+20 moreARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER — $1,800,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA SCIENCE CENT…THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY — $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHOENIX THEATRE …NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC — $138,750 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INVENTORS H…+2 more — $39,500 · Arts & CultureARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · OtherARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION …Individual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMIND Research Institute — $200,000 · OtherMIND Research InstituteYear Up Arizona — $192,647 · OtherYear Up ArizonaS AZ Research Science and Engineering Foundation — $122,500 · OtherDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $325,000 · OtherDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIET…CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA — $250,000 · OtherCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA+82 more — $1,702,740 · Other+82 morePhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $1,500,000 · HealthPhoenix Childre…+5 more — $186,000 · Health+5 moreArizona Science Teachers Association — $273,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SUN CORRIDOR INC — $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentARIZONA MAJOR EVENTS HOST COMMITTEE — $150,000 · Community ImprovementTempe Community Action Agency Inc — $100,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA — $67,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $44,000 · Community ImprovementAZ CYBER INITIATIVE INC — $16,000 · Community ImprovementUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC — $90,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterSTARDUST NON-PROFIT BUILDING SUPPLIES INC — $20,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$3,499,974Arts & Culture$2,228,250Other$3,342,887Health$1,686,000Youth Development$578,000Community Improvement$377,500Housing & Shelter$370,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER — $1,800,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $1,500,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $744,923 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $584,520 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $393,944 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $325,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetArizona Science Teachers Association — $273,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA — $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SUN CORRIDOR INC — $175,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARIZONA MAJOR EVENTS HOST COMMITTEE — $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC — $138,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON INC — $111,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetCODEORG — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTNTP INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTempe Community Action Agency Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC — $90,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER — $90,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT — $77,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetLOWELL OBSERVATORY — $75,842 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $74,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA — $67,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKnowledgeworks Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNational AfterSchool Association Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetARIZONA ECUMENICAL COUNCIL — $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetHOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetA NEW LEAF — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN FARMING EDUCATION — $47,901 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $44,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGAPE HOUSE OF PRESCOTT INC — $40,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Northern Arizona Inc — $32,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTRONG TIES — $30,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBE A LEADER FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Burton Family Foundat…Thunderbirds CharitiesVirginia G Piper Char…The Diane and Bruce H…The Foundation for Co…Helios Education Foun…Garcia Family Foundat…BHHS Legacy FoundationValley of the Sun Uni…Phoenix Suns Charitie…Community Foundation …
Arizona Community FoundationAZ65.5× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 APS Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to APS Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to APS Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 141 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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