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Declaration of Trust of the Joseph and Mary Cacioppo Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $238k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $125,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $113,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $45,044 |
| PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,000 |
| WRIGHT FLIGHT | $12,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SO AZ | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE9× · 2017–2025 · $279k · revenue +42%
University of Arizona Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $193k · revenue +54%- HSHumane Society of Southern Arizona3× · 2021–2023 · $90k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAone grant, 2017 · $65k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $28k
- FOFRIENDS OF PIMA COUNTY CARE CENTERone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
Liberty Wildlife nurtures the nature of Arizona by providing quality wildlife rehabilitation, environmental education and conservation consultation services for the community.
As a no-kill cat rescue, serving our community of Fountain Hills, AZ and surrounding areas, we are dedicated to rescuing cats and kittens left homeless for whatever reason and placing them in a loving, responsible, permanent home.
Improving our community by providing exceptional, whole-person healthcare.
The mission of valley christian schools is to equip students to be culture changers for christ by delivering academic excellence, facilitating spiritual growth, and building lifelong community.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
To provide a quality education for students characterized by: a sound college preparatory curriculum; a faculty of educated, respected, encouraging and caring teachers; a safe and supportive environment for learning.
To utilize a family centric model to enlist the support of families in the education and upbringing of the whole child- academic & intellectual, recreational & cultural, character & leadership, emotional, physical & mental health- to…
We save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.
DRAZ is a non-profit law firm that assists Arizonans with disabilities to promote and protect their legal rights to independence, justice, and equality.
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wright Flight Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds JAPHET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Tucson Wildlife Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds The Leaves Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Pima Animal Care Center ↗
- Who funds TIME OUT INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Crisis Team Inc ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Declaration of Trust of the Joseph and Mary Cacioppo 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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