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Bootheel 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLCOX UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $16,300 |
| LORDSBURG MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS | $12,319 |
| BISBEE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $8,902 |
| SAN SIMON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,158 |
| SILVER CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS | $5,050 |
| ANIMAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $4,194 |
| TOMBSTONE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $3,443 |
| COBRE CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL | $2,830 |
| BOWIE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,422 |
| COCHISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $2,210 |
| ELFRIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,395 |
| PEARCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,267 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WAWreaths Across America4× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +63%
- HMHIDALGO MEDICAL SERVICES5× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +7%
- WTWillcox Theater and Arts Inc2× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- DUDOUGLAS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $6k
- WNWESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Supports initiatives that promote healthy living in Cochise County.
Through the operation of museums and support of historic preservation we will attempt to interpret and conserve our historical and cultural heritage. Through the presentation and support of cultural and educational programs we will attempt…
Our mission is continually to improve the quality of life for the people we serve in collaboration with our diverse communities in a respectful, caring, culturally sensitive manner. The organization provides behavioral health services for…
To provide affordable housing to low income persons and to collect and sell second hand merchandise in its thriftstore
To provide education, awareness and prevention information throughout the communities of Lea County and services such as forensic exams and advocacy, for victims/survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, strangulation, child injury,…
Rescue, care and placement of unwanted, abused and homeless animals. Help with elimination of pet overpopulation in Mohave County AZ
Animal shelter and adoption center
365 days of residential care, housing food etc, for recovering clients
Operates a domestic violence shelter and a rape crisis counseling and assistance team
The mission of bisbee hospital association inc d/b/a copper queen community hospital ("cqch") is to maintain and support access to primary healthcare throughout southern cochise county by providing leadership and vision to address…
To provide services to the elderly and disabled in the form of congregate and home delivered meals, housekeeping services, in-home nursing care, home health aides, and other services.
Our focus is to work with groups and individuals who are in the arts, humanities, education and historic preservation with goals designed to enhance Bisbees unique place in the history of the Southwest, the contribution made to Bisbees…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Bisbee Arizona and the most unlike its peers is Douglas Area Food Bank Inc Same. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds HIDALGO MEDICAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Willcox Theater and Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF GRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN COCHISE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COCHISE FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC dba LORIS PLACE ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EL REFUGIO ↗
- Who funds SILVER REGIONAL SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Bisbee Arizona ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Community Food Bank Inc · Arizona Food Bank Network · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · 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 organization Bootheel 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.
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 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.
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