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Feldman Family 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.

$12k
Granted FY2023
36
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Community Improvement$359kArts & Culture$10kYouth Development$5kCrime & Legal$5kHuman Services$2kCivil Rights$1kEnvironment$1kEducation$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 36 grants below total $9,225 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,034 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,809 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$200
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Arizona Theater Company$1,000
Arizona Center Law$1,000
Veterans Foundation-Poetry Ctr$500
Arizona Theatre Company$500
Invisible Theatre$375
Arbor Day Foundation$250
Pima Council On Aging$250
Arizona Center for Law$250
Planned Parenthood$250
U of A Foundation$250
The University of Arizona$250
Arizona Land And Water Trust$250
Arizona Legal Women and Youth Services$250
Musical Instrument Museum$250
Florence Immigration Project$250
02Your 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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14k · 8 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
19

Total granted

$14k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+37%

Still filing today

25%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’23
Crime & LegalArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationOther

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

  • AT
    Arizona Theatre Company
    2× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +38%
  • PC
    Pima Council on Aging
    2× · 2020–2023 · $1k · revenue +2%
  • IT
    INVISIBLE THEATRE
    2× · 2020–2023 · $975 · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF ARIZONA
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • CP
    CORTNEYS PLACEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $720 · revenue +110%
  • JF
    Jewish Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $500

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

03Your 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.

1
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
2
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
3
Alliance for Arizona Animal Protection

Prevention of animal cruelty and intervention on behalf of animals being abused.

Animals
4
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Sky Island Alliance

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…

Environment
7
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
8
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
9
Northern Jaguar Project

The mission of the northern jaguar project is to preserve and recover the world's northermost population of the jaguar, its unique natural habitat, and native wildlife under its protection as a flagship, keystone, and umbrella species.

Animals
10
Center for Biological Diversity Inc

The center for biological diversity inc, works to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. we do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and…

Animals
11
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
12
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Land and Water Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Amerind Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

21 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF ARIZONA — $4,720 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF ARIZONAArizona Center for Law — $2,171 · OtherArizona Center for LawArizona Center Law — $1,000 · OtherArizona Center LawU Of A Foundation — $700 · Other+31 more — $6,615 · Other+31 moreArizona Theatre Company — $7,500 · Arts & CultureArizona Theatre CompanyINVISIBLE THEATRE — $975 · Arts & CultureINVISIBLE THEATRE+1 more — $250 · Arts & CulturePima Council on Aging — $1,250 · Human ServicesCORTNEYS PLACE — $720 · Human ServicesFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC — $500 · Crime & LegalArizona Legal Women and Youth Services — $350 · Crime & LegalARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECT — $250 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $150 · Crime & LegalARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC — $450 · EnvironmentNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $400 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $110 · EnvironmentJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $560 · InternationalCommunity Food Bank Inc — $200 · Food & Nutrition
Other$15,206Arts & Culture$8,725Human Services$1,970Crime & Legal$1,250Environment$960International$560Food & Nutrition$200

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 budgetArizona Theatre Company — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPima Council on Aging — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINVISIBLE THEATRE — $975 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCORTNEYS PLACE — $720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC — $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Legal Women and Youth Services — $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECT — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTucson High Badger Foundation Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Amerind Foundation Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $50 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.

Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · The Evo and Ora Deconcini and Thu Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Feldman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Feldman 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $377k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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