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Hartzell Family Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Hartzell Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Arizona Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Hartzell Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $22k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k23 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catholic Diocese of Pheonix | $10,000 |
| JW Ministry | $1,500 |
| Poore Medical Clinic | $1,000 |
| San Francisco de Asis | $1,000 |
| Coconino Coalition for Children You | $1,000 |
| Cancer Support Community-AZ | $1,000 |
| Flagstaff Community Foundation | $1,000 |
| United Way of Northern Arizona | $1,000 |
| Coco-Op | $600 |
| Museum of Northern Arizona | $500 |
| NAU Foundation | $500 |
| The Salvation Army Flagstaff Corps | $500 |
| KNAU | $500 |
| Children's Action Alliance | $500 |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul | $200 |
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 (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Hartzell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- CSCancer Support Community Arizona2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +3%
- NANORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue +337%
- MSMIDLAND SCHOOL CORPORATION4× · 2017–2020 · $900 · revenue +5%
Funded once
- ACACTBLUE CHARITIES INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -99%
DIRECT RELIEFgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +94%- CCCoconino Community Collegeone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
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…
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
Improving health, healing people.
CORAZÓN-AZ's mission is to cultivate and foster a welcoming and safe community of Arizonans from vast faith traditions and beliefs, schools, and allied organizations; united in expanding our democracy, economic dignity, immigrant justice,…
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
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 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.
To promote and facilitate the development and delivery of affordable and accessible primary healthcare for everyone in arizona through advocacy, education and technical assistance.
To build a thriving southern arizona through philanthropy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern Arizona Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cocoop. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 32 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds THE POORE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Northern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds COCONINO COALITION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Cancer Support Community Arizona ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds Sunshine Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds COCOOP ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FLAGSTAFFS FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
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 · Molly and Joseph Herman Foundation · The Narbha Institute Inc · Geofamily Foundation · Geile Charitable Foundation · Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Forest Highlands Foundation · United Way of Northern Arizona Inc · Mc Companies - Sharing the Good Life Foundation · American Express 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 Hartzell Family 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.
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