· Private foundation
Flinn Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $833k
- $50k–250k43 grants · $3.8M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONMAYO | $665,757 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $643,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $552,750 |
| MARICOPA COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS OFFICE | $504,000 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $334,000 |
| SRI INTERNATIONAL | $291,726 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $220,000 |
| ARIZONA BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION | $207,000 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $175,124 |
| YUMA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $170,500 |
| BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $162,000 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - PHOENIX CAMPUS | $125,000 |
| MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION | $117,173 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $114,125 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
69 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ABARIZONA BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +3% · 31% of their budget
- BNBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $641k · revenue +54%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2024 · $364k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- AFASU FOUNDATION FOR NEW AMER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $666k
- AAARIZONA APPAREL FOUNDATION-FABRICone grant, 2020 · $150k
- TAThe Arizona Republicone grant, 2020 · $150k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To connect and strengthen arizona's technology industry and community, promote state and federal policies that enhance arizona's technology industry, deliver quality content and events to educate those working in arizona's expanding…
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.
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…
One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans
Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.
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…
To advance the knowledge and abilities of organization members in the field of architecture through seminars, networking, and member services.
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.
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.
AriSEIAs mission is to develop and support policies that create opportunities to advance Arizonas economy through solar energy and storage. AriSEIA advocates for sustainable job creation in deployment of solar and complementary…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artlink Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hattie B Bwip. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
85 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. 85 of the 144 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ARIZONA BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foundation of Yuma Regional Medical Center ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDSPLAY INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SRI INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Technical Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds Museum of Northern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHOENIX ECONOMIC COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Burton Family Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Thunderbirds Charities · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn · Garcia Family 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 Flinn 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.
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.