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Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7.6M
Granted FY2019
20
Grants FY2019
18
Organizations funded FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$4,317,325
States reached, FY2019
10
Total assets, FY2019
$302M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
CA
UT
MO
AZ
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation$200,00011%
Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism$10,00010%
The Phoenix Theatre Company and Subsidiary$5,0001n/a
The Gray Matters Foundation Inc$2,5001n/a
Pathnorth Inc$1,00010%
Amanda Hope Rainbow Angels$1,00010%
Brophy College Preparatory$7001n/a
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$40010%
Arizona Women's Board$30010%
Kids in Focus$20910%
Head for the Cure Foundation$3210%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCenter for Excellence in Health Care Journalism: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPathnorth Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmanda Hope Rainbow Angels: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Brain Tumor Society Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Women's Board: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKids in Focus: $209 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHead for the Cure Foundation: $32 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 8.

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 FoundationAZ17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Moreno Family Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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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How do I get to Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation 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.

About Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation

How much does Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation give?
Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $7,574,767 in its FY2019 IRS filing.
What does Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2019, its largest causes are Health (86%), Education (14%), Science & Tech (0%).
Who are Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2019: Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation ($200k), Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism ($10k), The Phoenix Theatre Company and Subsidiary ($5k).
Does Ben and Catherine Ivy 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 Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, American Express Foundation, Baird Foundation Inc.
Where is Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation based?
Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation is based in AZ.

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 20 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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