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· Private foundation
BEN AND CATHERINE IVY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$7.6M
Granted FY2019
20
Grants
10
Communities
$4.3M
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2019 · 20 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k11 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $322k
- $250k+5 grants · $7.2M
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$327M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NEURO TRIALS LLC$4,317,325
- STANFORD UNIVERSITY$1,024,920
- CITY OF HOPE MEDICAL CENTER$957,527
- MAYO CLINIC$500,000
- SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER$413,000
- DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FDN$200,000
- TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH TGE$122,304
- ARCS FOUNDATION$17,300
- CTR FOR EXCELLENCE IN HEALTHCARE JO$10,000
- PHOENIX THEATRE$5,000
- GRAY MATTERS FOUNDATION$2,500
- PATHNORTH$1,000
- WOMEN'S BOARD BARROW NEUROLOGICAL F$1,000
- AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS$1,000
- BROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORY$700
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
Banner 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
2
American Academy of Neurology
The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is the leading voice in brain health. As the world's largest association of neurologists and neuroscience professionals with more than 40,000 members, the AAN offers access to continuing education,…
Community Improvement
3
Twist Out Cancer
The mission is to provide psychosocial support to cancer survivors and their loved ones through creative arts programming. the organization is a global community that enables anyone touched by cancer to connect, create, support and inspire.
Health
4
Imagine a Cure Cancer Treatment
Health
5
Cancer Can't Inc
Philanthropy
6
Tucson Medical Center
Tucson medical center's mission is to deliver caring, personalized, quality healthcare to patients and their families in an environment that is supportive, education-focused and compassionate.
Health
7
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research
To promote and support h. lee moffitt cancer center and research institute, inc. and its subs.
Health
8
Unmc Physicians
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.
Health
9
American Society of Clinical Oncology
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality, equitable patient care.
Health
10
We Beat Cancer
Philanthropy
11
Knox Martin Foundation
The knox martin foundation for brain cancer research was created to fund the next breakthrough in brain cancer - particularly in aggressive brain cancers - giving warriors like knox martin a longer life expectancy.
Health
12
National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Nccn is dedicated to improving and facilitating quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care so all patients can live better lives.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Head for the Cure Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Phoenix Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$7,064,726Health$503,832Arts & Culture$5,000Education$1,000Youth Development$209
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.
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 FoundationAZ17.3× 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 · Moreno Family Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation BEN AND CATHERINE IVY FOUNDATION 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.5× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 462522889 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines