Arizona · Private foundation
Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $16M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $315M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $16M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $13M | 58% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $14M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $15M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $16M | 65% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $15M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph's Foundation | $7,908,660 | 3 | 70% |
| Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix | $2,130,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Johns Hopkins Hospital | $1,397,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation | $860,000 | 6 | 1% |
| University of Michigan | $846,800 | 3 | 93% |
| Phoenix Police Foundation Inc | $719,675 | 1 | 32% |
| University of New Mexico | $600,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Swedish Health Services | $600,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $600,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $597,184 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($72M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation
- How much does Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation give?
- Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $16,470,559 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (83%), Public Safety & Disaster (6%), Employment (5%).
- Who are Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Joseph's Foundation ($7.9M), Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix ($2.1M), The Johns Hopkins Hospital ($1.4M).
- Does Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- 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, Thunderbirds Charities.
- Where is Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation based?
- Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation is based in AZ.
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