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Armando & Joan Ortiz 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.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,487,565
Organizations funded a year
8 to 29
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Armando & Joan Ortiz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$2.7M67%
FY20238$120k75%
FY20228$140k75%
FY202111$101k73%
FY202025$6k20%
FY201919$4k21%
FY201829$6kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$2.6MPhilanthropy$767kPublic Safety & Disaster$164kReligion$67kYouth Development$45kArts & Culture$32kCivil Rights$31kInternational$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
NJ
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
OK
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
World Central Kitchen Inc$164,00030%
Society of the Sacred Heart United States Canada Province Inc$39,5001n/a
Focushope$30,00010%
Cranbrook Educational Community$25,25030%
First Book$20,00020%
Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver$15,00020%
Girls Who Code Inc$10,00010%
Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana Michiana Inc$10,00010%
Blue Jacket Inc$10,00010%
Fort Wayne Public Television Inc$10,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Armando & Joan Ortiz Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $164,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFocushope: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCranbrook Educational Community: $25,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Book: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Metro Denver: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGirls Who Code Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Northern Indiana Michiana Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBlue Jacket Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFort Wayne Public Television Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetColorado Women's Employment & Education Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPetsmart Charities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Bean Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Detroit Institute of Arts: $1,070 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHaven Inc: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Inc: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Macular Degeneration Goehring: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Federation of the Blind: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAARP Foundation: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConsumer Reports Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $205 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Geographic Society: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Medical Association Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Foundation for the Blind Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Armando & Joan Ortiz Foundation

How much does Armando & Joan Ortiz Foundation give?
Armando & Joan Ortiz Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $3,457,840 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Armando & Joan Ortiz Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (69%), Philanthropy (20%), Public Safety & Disaster (4%).
Who are Armando & Joan Ortiz Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: World Central Kitchen Inc ($164k), Society of the Sacred Heart United States Canada Province Inc ($40k), Focushope ($30k).
Does Armando & Joan Ortiz Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Armando & Joan Ortiz 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 Armando & Joan Ortiz Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Charities Aid Foundation America, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Armando & Joan Ortiz Foundation based?
Armando & Joan Ortiz Foundation is based in CO.

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 61 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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