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Bluth Family 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.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$85kReligion$80kHuman Services$36kFood & Nutrition$34kInternational$21kHealth$15kAnimals$11kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$456k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS$30,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SAVE THE FAMILY$5,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$5,000
UNITED FOOD BANK$1,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$1,000
TONTO RIM SEARCH & RESCUE SQUAD INC$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%HUSHABYE NURSERY: $1k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $3k → 11%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$274k · 10 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$274k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+41%

Still filing today

30%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • LC
    LDS CHARITIES
    4× · 2020–2023 · $85k
  • TC
    THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $55k
  • ST
    SAVE THE FAMILY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $33k

Funded once

  • RL
    RADIANT LIFE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • HO
    Hospice of the Valleygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +41%
  • CC
    CHILD CRISIS ARIZONAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +140%
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
Waste Not Inc

Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
2
Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition
3
St Mary's Food Bank Alliance

Bridging the gap for arizona communities with nourishment for today and hope for tomorrow.

Food & Nutrition
4
Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest

We stabilize people during crisis and transition, build a foundation where people can thrive, and preserve dignity and respect for the most vulnerable.

Religion
5
Impact of Southern Arizona

Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.

Community Improvement
6
Aviva Children's Services

Aviva children's services changes the lives of more than 3,000 children in foster care each year by providing emergency resources, ongoing family support and comprehensive behavioral health services.

Human Services
7
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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8
Caring Ministries Inc

Food and clothing distribution along the arizona/mexico border and southern arizona. provide living quarters for volunteer missionaries who have no other place to live and to provide support to orphanages.

Religion
9
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
10
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
11
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
12
Arizona Humane Society

We save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kaiizen Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 24 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LDS CHARITIES: $85,000 · OtherLDS CHARITIESTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $55,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSSAVE THE FAMILY: $33,000 · OtherSAVE THE FAMILYFAMILY WATCH INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 · OtherFAMILY WATCH INTERNATIONALLDS: $20,000 · OtherLDSPHOENIX ZOO: $11,152 · OtherSOUTHWEST MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $12,700 · OtherFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $31,000 · InternationalFEED MY STAR…+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalOUR RESCUE: $7,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA: $250 · Arts & CultureHospice of the Valley: $3,000 · Human ServicesHUSHABYE NURSERY: $1,000 · Human ServicesUnited Food Bank: $2,000 · Food & NutritionMATTHEW'S CROSSING: $1,000 · Food & NutritionCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $2,000 · Crime & LegalLAUREN'S INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION: $1,000 · Health
Other$246,852International$32,000Arts & Culture$7,250Human Services$4,000Food & Nutrition$3,000Crime & Legal$2,000Health$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $31,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Food Bank: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUSHABYE NURSERY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMATTHEW'S CROSSING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAUREN'S INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA: $250 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 FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds United Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds HUSHABYE NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds MATTHEW'S CROSSING ↗
  • Who funds LAUREN'S INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds KAIIZEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds Tonto Rim Search & Rescue SQD ↗

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 FoundationAZ13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Bluth Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bluth Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bluth Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bluth Family 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.

    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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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