· Private foundation
Dye Family 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 $10k6 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Nature Conservancy | $20,000 |
| Desert Botanical Gardens | $15,000 |
| Phoenix Art Museum | $8,500 |
| The Grand Canyon Conservancy | $7,500 |
| Voices for CASA Children | $6,000 |
| Munds Park Trail Stewards Inc | $5,000 |
| Tucson Audobon Society | $5,000 |
| The Terra Foundation | $3,000 |
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 26% of Dye Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 93%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DBDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +72%
- VFVOICES FOR CASA CHILDREN INC7× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +3%
- AWARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD4× · 2017–2021 · $42k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- BNBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +44%
- SMScottsdale Museum of Contemporary Aone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ACAZ Corona Virus Relief Fundone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
We work to connect people, wildlife, and lands across the u.s.-mexico border through the use of science, advocacy, educational activities, community engagement, and on-the-ground conservation initiatives. our main activities include…
Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide.
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
We are a community oasis where reverence for the cultural and natural ecology of the sonoran desert region inspires responsible stewardship so that future generations may thrive.
Tucson botanical gardens connects people with plants and nature through art, science, history and culture.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 18 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CASA CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tucson Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds THE TERRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds WILD AT HEART 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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dye Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dye Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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