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Hartzell Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$22k
Granted FY2020
24
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

18
’17
14
’18
16
’19
17
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$25kHealth$7kInternational$7kHuman Services$5kArts & Culture$5kEducation$3kFood & Nutrition$2kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2020 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k23 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Catholic Diocese of Pheonix$10,000
JW Ministry$1,500
Cancer Support Community-AZ$1,000
United Way of Northern Arizona$1,000
San Francisco de Asis$1,000
Poore Medical Clinic$1,000
Coconino Coalition for Children You$1,000
Flagstaff Community Foundation$1,000
Coco-Op$600
Museum of Northern Arizona$500
The Salvation Army Flagstaff Corps$500
KNAU$500
Children's Action Alliance$500
NAU Foundation$500
Society of St Vincent de Paul$200
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Coconino Coalition for Children You: $1k → 16%Coconino Coalition for Children You: $500 → 16%Coconino Coalition for Children You: $500 → 16%Coconino Coalition for Children You: $500 → 16%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Hartzell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Hartzell Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39k · 25 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
4

Total granted

$39k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-6%

Still filing today

68%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureReligionFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CS
    Cancer Support Community Arizona
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +3%
  • NA
    NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue +337%
  • MS
    MIDLAND SCHOOL CORPORATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $900 · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • AC
    ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -99%
  • DIRECT RELIEFgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +94%
  • CC
    Coconino Community College
    one grant, 2018 · $500
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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
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
3
Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition
4
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
—
5
Flagstaff Medical Center

Improving health, healing people.

Health
6
Corazon Az

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,…

Civil Rights
7
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

—
8
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
9
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
10
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

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.

—
11
Arizona Association of Community Health Centers Inc

To promote and facilitate the development and delivery of affordable and accessible primary healthcare for everyone in arizona through advocacy, education and technical assistance.

Health
12
Community Foundation for Southern Arizona

To build a thriving southern arizona through philanthropy.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern Arizona Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Catholic Diocese of Pheonix: $10,000 · OtherCatholic Diocese of PheonixFlagstaff Community Foundation: $4,000 · OtherFlagstaff Community FoundationSan Francisco de Asis: $3,500 · OtherSan Francisco de AsisJW Ministry: $2,000 · OtherJW MinistryThe Salvation Army Flagstaff Corps: $2,000 · OtherThe Salvation Army Flagstaff CorpsCHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $1,500 · OtherKNAU: $1,500 · Other+11 more: $5,800 · Other+11 moreARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,448 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FO…UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHE…ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC: $1,050 · PhilanthropyACTBLUE CHARITIES IN…THE POORE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $4,000 · HealthTHE POORE MED…Cancer Support Community Arizona: $2,300 · HealthCancer Suppor…American Heart Association Inc: $400 · HealthAmerican Hear…Museum of Northern Arizona Inc: $3,000 · Arts & CultureFLAGSTAFF ARTS COUNCIL INC: $200 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,300 · EducationMIDLAND SCHOOL CORPORATION: $900 · EducationCOCOOP: $600 · EducationCOCONINO COALITION FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 · Human ServicesSunshine Rescue Mission: $800 · ReligionDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $800 · Religion
Other$30,300Philanthropy$10,498Health$6,700Arts & Culture$3,200Education$2,800Human Services$2,500Religion$1,600

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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,448 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POORE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMuseum of Northern Arizona Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOCONINO COALITION FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCancer Support Community Arizona: $2,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIDLAND SCHOOL CORPORATION: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGSTAFF ARTS COUNCIL INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FLAGSTAFFS FUTURE: $200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $100 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.

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…Molly and Joseph Herm…The Narbha Institute …Geofamily FoundationGeile Charitable Foun…Health First Foundati…The Diane and Bruce H…The Foundation for Co…Forest Highlands Foun…United Way of Norther…Mc Companies - Sharin…American Express Foun…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ28.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hartzell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hartzell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hartzell Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hartzell 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.

    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 32 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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