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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 FY2024still arriving
111
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$666k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$14MEducation$10MArts & Culture$3.6MCommunity Improvement$2.1MScience & Tech$1.0MEnvironment$279kAnimals$268kPhilanthropy$262kOther$0
02FY2024 · 111 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $833k
  • $50k–250k43 grants · $3.8M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.0M
$33,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$263M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ARIZONA OPERA$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HATTIE B BLACK WOMEN IN PROGRESS: $3k → 18%CIRCLE THE CITY: $2k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
MA
NV
OH
PA
CA
VA
AZ
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 69 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
52

Total granted

$29M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+35%

Still filing today

58%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AB
    ARIZONA BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +3% · 31% of their budget
  • BN
    BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $641k · revenue +54%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $364k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • AF
    ASU FOUNDATION FOR NEW AMER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $666k
  • TA
    The Arizona Republic
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • AA
    ARIZONA APPAREL FOUNDATION-FABRIC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
3
Arizona Wins

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…

Civil Rights
4
Arizona Technology Council

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…

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5
Pro-Choice Arizona

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…

Health
6
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights
7
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
8
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.

—
9
Arizona Regional Economic Development Foundation

Preservation and strengthening of the regional economy through initiatives focused on industry recruitment, expansion and development. The mission is accomplished by providing consulting services, promotion of special events, and leasing…

Community Improvement
10
Arizona Solar Energy Industries Assoc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health
12
Aia Arizona the American Institute of Architects

To advance the knowledge and abilities of organization members in the field of architecture through seminars, networking, and member services.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Az Impact for Good; 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.
04the grantee network

85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/85
Grantees still filing
49/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $5,928,238 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYUA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE PHOENIX: $4,189,859 · OtherUA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE PHOENIXUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $3,652,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY: $1,100,000 · OtherNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: $1,006,000 · OtherUA SCHOLARSHIPS & FINANCIAL AID: $965,250 · Other+76 more: $7,640,245 · Other+76 moreCHILDSPLAY INC: $361,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDSPLAY…BALLET ARIZONA: $338,200 · Arts & CultureBALLET ARI…ARIZONA OPERA COMPANY: $310,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA OP…Museum of Northern Arizona Inc: $283,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of …CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX: $258,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S…THE HEARD MUSEUM: $233,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HEARD …PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $225,000 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX SY…ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $193,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA-SO…ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $193,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA SC…PHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $193,000 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX AR…THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY: $138,000 · Arts & CultureTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC: $133,000 · Arts & CultureSCOTTSDALE ARTS: $113,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $115,750 · Arts & CultureARIZONA BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,168,750 · Community ImprovementTechnical Development Corporation: $288,480 · Community ImprovementGREATER PHOENIX ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $220,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $129,370 · Community Improvement+7 more: $91,491 · Community ImprovementBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $641,000 · HealthFoundation of Yuma Regional Medical Center: $500,500 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $137,500 · HealthCRITICAL PATH INSTITUTE: $85,000 · Health+7 more: $82,750 · HealthARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $363,500 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $332,700 · EducationGrand Canyon University: $100,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $60,000 · EducationMatthew House AZ Inc: $35,000 · Education+8 more: $33,388 · EducationMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $235,346 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $39,500 · PhilanthropyArt State Arizona: $20,000 · PhilanthropySRI INTERNATIONAL: $291,726 · Science & Tech+1 more: $1,130 · Science & Tech
Other$24,481,842Arts & Culture$3,086,950Community Improvement$1,898,091Health$1,446,750Education$924,588Philanthropy$374,846Science & Tech$292,856

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARIZONA BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,168,750 over 5y, 31% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $641,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFoundation of Yuma Regional Medical Center: $500,500 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $363,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDSPLAY INC: $361,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetBALLET ARIZONA: $338,200 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $332,700 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetARIZONA OPERA COMPANY: $310,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSRI INTERNATIONAL: $291,726 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTechnical Development Corporation: $288,480 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetMuseum of Northern Arizona Inc: $283,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX: $258,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $235,346 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM: $233,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $225,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER PHOENIX ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $220,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $199,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $193,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $193,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $193,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION: $163,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY: $138,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $137,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC: $133,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $129,370 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCOTTSDALE ARTS: $113,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRITICAL PATH INSTITUTE: $85,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST PLACE AZ: $75,150 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAZ IMPACT FOR GOOD: $45,991 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $39,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew House AZ Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetARTLINK INC: $33,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetEquality Health Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINDIJ PUBLIC MEDIA: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBanner Alzheimer's Foundation: $23,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetACT ONE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMESA ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPRESCOTT COLLEGE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArt State Arizona: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetArizona Theatre Company: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA GRANTMAKERS FORUM: $17,124 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $12,888 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION ↗

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…Burton Family Foundat…The Foundation for Co…Thunderbirds CharitiesThe Diane and Bruce H…Community Foundation …Jewish Community Foun…BHHS Legacy FoundationPhoenix Suns Charitie…The Kemper & Ethel Ma…Garcia Family Foundat…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ69× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Flinn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Flinn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 144 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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