· Private foundation
Declaration of Trust of the Joseph and Mary Cacioppo Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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 · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Declaration of Trust of the Joseph and Mary Cacioppo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Declaration of Trust of the Joseph and Mary Cacioppo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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