· Private foundation
AWH FOUNDATION co ROBERT W GILLETT
Its FY2023 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of AWH FOUNDATION co ROBERT W GILLETT’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k13 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| SPL SPORTS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SIMON YOUTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LAKELAND UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| UNIV OF MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER | $20,000 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF TUCSON | $15,000 |
| PRIMAVERA FOUNDATION | $10,200 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $10,000 |
| ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
50 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2023, 33 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
University of Arizona Foundation7× · 2017–2023 · $403k · revenue +109%- SGSPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN6× · 2018–2023 · $75k · revenue +20%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- HCHILLSDALE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2022 · $50k
- NCNAVIGANT CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $32k
- FSFIRST STEP SPECIAL KIDS SPORTSone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.
To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.
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…
Our mission is to provide exceptional health care with compassion.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest and the most unlike its peers is Hertog Foundation Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 125 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 University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN ↗
- Who funds Angel Charity for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds GABRIELS ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TUCSON FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds SPL SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC ↗
- Who funds Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ↗
- Who funds TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HERTOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Tucson Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · The Stocker Foundation · Hillsdale County Community Foundation · Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona · Fiesta Events Inc
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 AWH FOUNDATION co ROBERT W GILLETT 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.