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Donald Pitt Family Foundation at a glance

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Donald Pitt Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$251kPhilanthropy$231kFood & Nutrition$60kArts & Culture$47kEnvironment$19kHuman Services$8kHealth$8kHousing & Shelter$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITERACY CONNECTS$13,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION COOPER CENTER$10,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA POETRY CENTER$2,500
JACKALOPE SCIENCE INC$2,000
BLAINE FOOD BANK$2,000
TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$2,000
ARIZONA LUMINARIA$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PRIMAVERA FOUNDATION$1,000
ARIZONA DAILY STAR SPORTMANS FUND$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION STEELE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTER$1,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$1,000
TUCSON HIGH BADGER FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $750 → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $750 → 11%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $500 → 15%HANDMAKER FOUNDATION: $4k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
MO
VA
AZ
DC
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$317k · 26 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
40

Total granted

$317k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+26%

Still filing today

73%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +109%
  • LC
    LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $45k · revenue +55%
  • LC
    LITERACY CONNECTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • MC
    MONTEREY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • HF
    HANDMAKER FOUNDATION DBA THE SANDRUBY COMMUNITY FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -83%
  • AC
    ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +1%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
3
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
4
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
5
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona

The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…

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6
Arizona Forward Association

Arizona Forward brings business and civic leaders together to promote cooperative efforts to improve the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of our state and local regions.

Community Improvement
7
Southern Arizona Leadership Council Inc

To improve greater tucson and the state of arizona by bringing together resources and leadership to enhance the economic climate and quality of life in our communities.

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8
Pro-Choice Arizona

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…

Health
9
The Dons of Arizona
Education
10
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
11
Aclu Foundation of Arizona

The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.

Civil Rights
12
Tucson Investigative Reporting Center Inc

The Tucson Investigative Reporting Center educates and informs Southern Arizonans about the community challenges & unique culture of our borderlands through independent local journalism.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Felicia's Farm Fka Izi Azi Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/62
Grantees still filing
46/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $175,620 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONACOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $35,150 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZON…United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizon…+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $51,325 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Found…LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $45,000 · EducationLAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF …LITERACY CONNECTS: $37,000 · EducationLITERACY CONNECTSTUCSON COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $20,150 · EducationTUCSON COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC+5 more: $4,575 · EducationMONTEREY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $50,000 · OtherMONTEREY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRIC…JACKALOPE SCIENCE INC: $18,000 · OtherJACKALOPE SCIENCE INCBLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $15,335 · OtherBLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATIONUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA - POETRY CENTER: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA - POETRY…UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION COOPER CENTER: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATI…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY+43 more: $52,991 · Other+43 moreCommunity Food Bank Inc: $44,625 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $100 · Food & NutritionTucson Symphony Society: $18,000 · Arts & CultureArizona Theatre Company: $3,250 · Arts & CultureINVISIBLE THEATRE: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTucson Girls Chorus Association Inc: $1,500 · Arts & CultureArizona Local Post: $1,000 · Arts & CultureLive Theatre Workshop: $1,000 · Arts & CultureLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $1,840 · Arts & CultureTUCSON VALUES TEACHERS: $6,500 · EmploymentThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $5,500 · Housing & ShelterCommunity Home Repair Projects of Arizona: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$227,770Education$158,050Other$171,326Food & Nutrition$44,725Arts & Culture$29,590Employment$6,500Housing & Shelter$6,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $175,620 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $51,325 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $44,625 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $37,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $35,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTUCSON COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $20,150 over 7y, 16% of budgetTucson Symphony Society: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $15,335 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON VALUES TEACHERS: $6,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTucson High Badger Foundation Inc: $5,400 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPTA Arizona Congress of Parents & Sam Hughes PTA: $4,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetHANDMAKER FOUNDATION DBA THE SANDRUBY COMMUNITY FUND: $4,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $3,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona: $3,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Theatre Company: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Daily Star Sportsmens Fund Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINVISIBLE THEATRE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTucson Girls Chorus Association Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $1,180 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DE LOS NINOS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Local Post: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLive Theatre Workshop: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCEANA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Home Repair Projects of Arizona: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Diaper Bank: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Center for Collaborative Learning: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPima Council on Aging: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Whatcom County: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTucson Medical Center: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Family Services Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING CORP: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Hs Lopez Family F…Jewish Community Foun…Arizona Community Fou…United Way of Tucson …Connie Hillman Family…Marshall FoundationThe Stocker FoundationThe Gordon FoundationThe David and Lura Lo…Arts Foundation for T…Fred & Christine Arms…
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ66.5× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Marshall Foundation · The Stocker Foundation · The Gordon Foundation · The David and Lura Lovell · Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Donald Pitt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald Pitt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Donald Pitt Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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