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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
37
Itemized grants FY2023
29
Organizations funded FY2023
72%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$9k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$200
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 29
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
4
Total assets, FY2023
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 72% of the organizations Feldman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23
Crime & LegalArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202329$9k72%
FY202026$15k100%
FY20181$5kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Feldman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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 budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Justice Project: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusical Instrument Museum: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTucson High Badger Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Amerind Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Arizona: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Geographic Society: $120 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 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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 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

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.

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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.

About Feldman Family Foundation

How much does Feldman Family Foundation give?
Feldman Family Foundation reported 37 itemized grants totaling $9,375, out of $12,184 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Feldman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Community Improvement (64%), Arts & Culture (2%), Youth Development (1%).
Who are Feldman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Arizona Theatre Company ($8k), Pima Council on Aging ($1k), Invisible Theatre ($975).
Does Feldman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Feldman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Feldman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Donald Pitt Family Foundation, Arizona Community Foundation.
Where is Feldman Family Foundation based?
Feldman Family Foundation is based in AZ.

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 49 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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