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Bbr 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.

$29k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$685kRecreation & Sports$145kEducation$96kReligion$66kYouth Development$25kPhilanthropy$24kHuman Services$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUN DEVIL CLUB$13,920
GRACE SOBER LIVING$10,000
CHILDSPLAY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
OH
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
OK
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 43 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
24

Total granted

$1.1M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+40%

Still filing today

58%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation
    6× · 2017–2022 · $82k · revenue +64%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    4× · 2018–2021 · $13k · revenue +9%
  • EC
    EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES
    4× · 2018–2021 · $11k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • MT
    MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +66%
  • ST
    ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE CHURCH AND SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • ST
    SAINT THOMAS THE APOSTLE ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
100 Club of Arizona

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.

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2
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
3
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

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.

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4
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health
5
Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health
6
Banner Health Foundation

Established in 2001, banner health foundation secures and stewards charitable contributions to advance banner health's mission, investing in facilities and programs that support advancements in care, research, medical education, patient…

Health
7
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
8
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
Greater Phoenix Economic Council

The organization's mission is to attract and grow quality businesses and advocate for greater phoenix's competitiveness.

Community Improvement
11
Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

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12
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation of Balboa Peninsula Point. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
31/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $470,400 · PhilanthropyCELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $20,100 · PhilanthropySUN DEVIL CLUB: $134,866 · OtherSUN DEVIL CLUBBROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORY: $81,000 · OtherBROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORYCITY OF PHOENIX PEDIATRIC HEALTH CARE: $75,000 · OtherCITY OF PHOENIX PEDIATRIC HEALTH CAREST THERESA'S PARISH: $35,000 · OtherST THERESA'S PARISHSAINT THOMAS THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC ROMAN PARISH: $17,400 · Other+45 more: $103,923 · Other+45 morePhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $82,190 · HealthPhoenix Child…HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANC…Grace Sober Living: $10,000 · HealthGrace Sober L…HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $7,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $4,500 · Health+4 more: $8,000 · Health+4 moreEXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES: $11,200 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $5,700 · Youth DevelopmentPOSA OUTREACH INC: $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,600 · Human ServicesST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $7,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $5,637 · International
Philanthropy$490,500Other$447,189Health$131,690Youth Development$22,400Human Services$14,600Food & Nutrition$7,000International$5,637

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $470,400 over 7y, 10% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $82,190 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES: $11,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGrace Sober Living: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $5,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $5,637 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOSA OUTREACH INC: $5,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDSPLAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX: $4,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $3,403 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $3,025 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF VISITORS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetORAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars of The United States: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA FAMILY MEAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPhoenix Animal Care Coalition PACC911: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALPORT SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONE STEP BEYOND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE IN HEALTHCARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSoldier's Wish: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds Grace Sober Living ↗
  • Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
  • Who funds POSA OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDSPLAY INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA GOLF AND LIFE SKILLS INC DBA FIRST TEE - PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF VISITORS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BALBOA PENINSULA POINT ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…Jewish Community Foun…American Express Foun…Thunderbirds CharitiesRs Hoyt Jr Family Fou…Larcher Family Founda…Kuhle Family Foundati…Monica Heaney Nackard…Moreno Family Foundat…The Kemper & Ethel Ma…Garcia Family Foundat…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ30.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · American Express Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Rs Hoyt Jr Family Foundation · Larcher Family Foundation · Kuhle Family Foundation · Monica Heaney Nackard Foundation · Moreno Family Foundation · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn · Garcia Family 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bbr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bbr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 70 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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The camps
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