· Private foundation
Don Bennett Moon Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Arizona Foundation | $120,000 |
| The Hazeltine Theatre | $20,000 |
| La Paz County Fair Association | $19,586 |
| The Launch Pad | $12,500 |
| Patronato San Xavier | $11,660 |
| Imago Dei Middle School | $10,000 |
| Prescott Meals on Wheels | $6,000 |
| Prescott Farmers Market Inc | $5,000 |
| Arizona Center for Law in the Publi | $5,000 |
| Prescott Unified School Foundation | $5,000 |
| Grand Canyon Trust | $5,000 |
| Coalition for Compassion and Justic | $5,000 |
| Miami AZ Downtown Economic Resurgen | $5,000 |
| Freedom of the Press Foundation | $5,000 |
| Arizona Justice Project | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 28% of Don Bennett Moon Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
University of Arizona Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +109%- TLThe Launch Pad Teen Center7× · 2018–2024 · $594k · revenue +134% · 95% of their budget
- PSPATRONATO SAN XAVIER4× · 2018–2024 · $268k · revenue +62% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +82%
- KBKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue +29%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECHgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +41%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Animal Relief Fund Inc. 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 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 74 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 University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Launch Pad Teen Center ↗
- Who funds PATRONATO SAN XAVIER ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHARLOT HALL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AZ ↗
- Who funds LA PAZ COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH ↗
- Who funds WOODHULL FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESCOTT FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR COMPASSION & JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGO DEI MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PRESCOTT MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Camp Colley Foundation ↗
- Who funds PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
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 · Frankel Family Foundation · Margaret T Morris Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Yavapai Community Hospital Association Dba Yavapai Regional Medical Center · The Joe Kalt and Judy Gans Family Foundation Inc · Perry and Sandy Massie Foundation · United Way of Yavapai County Inc · Jw Kieckhefer Foundation · Miter Charitable Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance
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 Don Bennett Moon Foundation Inc 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.