Arizona · 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.
- $7.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 111
- Grants FY2024
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $33,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $665,757
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 69
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $263M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Flinn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 71 | $7.7M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $6.9M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $6.8M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $5.6M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $5.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Bioindustry Association Inc | $1,168,750 | 5 | 31% |
| Barrow Neurological Foundation | $641,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Foundation of Yuma Regional Medical Center | $500,500 | 3 | 10% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $363,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Childsplay Inc | $361,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Ballet Arizona | $338,200 | 5 | 1% |
| Northern Arizona University Foundation | $332,700 | 2 | 1% |
| Arizona Opera Company | $310,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Sri International | $291,726 | 1 | 0% |
| Technical Development Corporation | $288,480 | 5 | 3% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($23M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Flinn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Flinn Foundation
- How much does Flinn Foundation give?
- Flinn Foundation reported 111 grants totaling $7,686,206 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 69 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Flinn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (43%), Education (31%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Flinn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Arizona Bioindustry Association Inc ($1.2M), Barrow Neurological Foundation ($641k), Foundation of Yuma Regional Medical Center ($501k).
- Does Flinn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Flinn 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 Flinn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust, Burton Family Foundation.
- Where is Flinn Foundation based?
- Flinn Foundation is based in AZ.
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