· Private foundation
Don Nierling Mem Fdn Tai Xxxxx6008
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $383k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN IN NEED FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $49,263 |
| REIGNING GRACE RANCH | $40,000 |
| ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $29,558 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $29,558 |
| ARIZONANS FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| Scottsdale Museum of the West | $25,000 |
| DESERT MISSION INC | $25,000 |
| Grand Canyon Council Scouting America | $25,000 |
| International Dark Sky Discovery Center | $20,000 |
| Sunshine Rescue Missions | $20,000 |
| CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S SCHOOL | $19,705 |
| PAYSON SENIOR CENTER INC | $12,500 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary | $12,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $454k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k 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
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN8× · 2018–2025 · $540k · revenue +94%- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $333k · revenue +26%
- ASARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER7× · 2018–2025 · $305k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWNone grant, 2019 · $88k
- PCPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundationone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- TCTHE CHARRO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $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.
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
Improving health, healing people.
The children's clinics provides a family centered comprehensive medical home to meet the special needs of children and families.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The garden's commitment to the community is to advance excellence in education, research, exhibition and conservation of desert plants of the world with emphasis on the sonoran desert. we will ensure that the garden is always a compelling…
AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.
To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.
Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Desert Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cochise Canine Rescue. 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 40 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) — 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 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.
35 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. 35 of the 50 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 SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Arizonans for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND ↗
- Who funds PAYSON SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CANYON STATE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds Reigning Grace Ranch ↗
- Who funds DESERT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE HOUSE OF PRESCOTT INC ↗
- Who funds REHOBOTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHARRO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BALLET ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds University of Jamestown ↗
- Who funds REID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Prescott Area Shelter Services Inc ↗
- Who funds YAVAPAI CASA FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER ↗
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 · John F Long Foundation Inc · Burton Family Foundation · Margaret T Morris Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Arizona Diamondbacks Foundationinc · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation · Otto & Edna Neely Foundation · One Az Community Foundation Inc · Pivotal 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 Don Nierling Mem Fdn Tai Xxxxx6008 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.