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Ellen Glazer Ziegler Foundation

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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$3.7MYouth Development$2.0MHealth$646kPhilanthropy$350kArts & Culture$200kRecreation & Sports$160kHuman Services$133kScience & Tech$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $855k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
$148,012
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DRAKE UNIVERSITY$1,321,855
Individual grant recipient$223,922
CHARITABLE GIFT AMERICA$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA$148,012
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA$137,360
DRAKE UNIVERSITY$96,128
DRAKE UNIVERSITY$50,000
BARROWS NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF SCOTTSDALE: $1.5M → 11%CAMPANILLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%EISENHOWER HEALTH FDN: $250k → 11%ORT AMERICA: $500 → 17%INIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $224k → 13%PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%CHARITABLE GIFT AMERICA: $200k → 6%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $1.3M → 10%EMILY K CENTER: $100k → 11%COLORADO SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $10k → 8%LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $100k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $148k → 13%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $919k → 10%LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $100k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $137k → 13%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 10%ARCS FOUNDATION: $9k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $100k → 13%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $96k → 10%ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $50k → 13%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 10%BARROWS NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%EVERY STEP FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%BARROWS NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES: $125k → 10%BARROWS NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL IOWA: $333k → 10%BARROWS NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL IOWA: $10k → 10%BARROWS NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $3k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SCOTTSDALE: $75k → 11%ARIZONA WOMENS BOARD: $25k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SCOTTSDALE: $15k → 11%TEMPLE SOLEL: $15k → 11%TEMPLE SOLEL: $11k → 11%TEMPLE SOLEL: $7k → 11%SCOTTSDALE'S MUSEUM OF THE WEST: $100k → 11%TRENDS CHARITABLE FUND: $25k → 11%ARIZONA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100k → 11%AZ SCIENCE CENTER: $75k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHOENI: $10k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHOENI: $10k → 11%SALVATION ARMY SW: $3k → 11%TREASURE HOUSE: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
IA
CA
CO
AZ
NC
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 9 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
20

Total granted

$4.7M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+41%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $424k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterReligionOther

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

  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +1%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $919k · revenue +93%
  • BN
    BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $162k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF SCOTTSDALE
    one grant, 2020 · $1.5M
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +48%
  • EK
    EMILY K CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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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Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
2
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
3
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

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8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
American Academy of Dermatology Association Inc

To represent the interests of dermatologists and their patients. to influence and be a credible resource for public and private entities related to all policies and regulations that have the potential to affect the delivery of dermatologic…

Health
10
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
12
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Science Center and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr23%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr11%5%35–55yr23%79%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
12%
5,411/46,524

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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DRAKE UNIVERSITY — $2,516,707 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITYARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $918,720 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN…CHARITABLE GIFT AMERICA INC — $200,000 · EducationCHARITABLE GIFT AMERICA INC+1 more — $2,000 · EducationBOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF SCOTTSDALE — $1,549,769 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF SCOTTSDALEUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA — $435,372 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMAIndividual grant recipient — $223,922 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEMILY K CENTER — $100,000 · OtherArizona Jewish Historical Society — $100,000 · Other+12 more — $86,065 · OtherEisenhower Medical Center — $250,000 · HealthEisenhowe…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $200,000 · HealthBLOOD CAN…BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $162,000 · HealthBARROW NE…ARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD — $25,000 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA — $343,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER — $75,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $125,000 · PhilanthropyTrends Charitable Fund — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $4,500 · PhilanthropyDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $3,000 · Religion
Education$3,637,427Other$2,495,128Health$642,000Youth Development$433,000Arts & Culture$175,000Philanthropy$154,500Religion$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $2,516,707 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $918,720 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA — $343,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITABLE GIFT AMERICA INC — $200,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $162,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetArizona Jewish Historical Society — $100,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTrends Charitable Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREASURE HOUSE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…Robert H McKee and Ma…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Robert H McKee and Mary Ellen McKee Charitable Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Ellen Glazer Ziegler Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

    Source object · view filing

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