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Humphreys Family Foundation of Scottsdale

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.

$277k
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of HUMPHREYS FAMILY FOUNDATION OF SCOTTSDALE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k47 grants · $179k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $98k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EZ HEART & SOUL RESCUE$20,000
HAVEN$15,000
FRIEND OF TRYON CREEK$13,000
SCRIPPS INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY$10,000
THE MAYA FOUNDATION$10,000
MINDS MATTER-PORTLAND$10,000
ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN$10,000
EZ HEART & SOUL RESCUE & SANCTUARY$10,000
WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT$9,000
WILDERNESS AWARENESS SCHOOL$7,500
BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRA$5,500
MY STUFF BAGS$5,000
THE EXPLORERS CLUB$5,000
GROWING GARDENS-YOUTH GROW$5,000
THE CAMPHILL SCHOOL$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $5k → 11%ADVENTURES WITHOUT LIMITS: $3k → 8%FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY: $5k → 12%PEACE IN SCHOOLS: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
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MA
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NJ
CA
CO
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FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$84k · 9 repeat orgs$230k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$84k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+37%

Still filing today

78%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • FO
    Friends of Tryon Creek
    3× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +127%
  • WY
    Wilderness Youth Project Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +359%
  • TC
    THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE
    3× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +42%
  • SS
    SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +37%
  • HI
    HEIFER INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2021 · $1k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
2
Marine Science Institute

The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.

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3
Pacific Marine Research

The organization's mission is to promote respect and appreciation for Puget Sound by teaching principles of environmental stewardship and inspire observation of and involvement with Puget Sound. Through its Marine Science Afloat program,…

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4
Wild Orca

Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.

Animals
5
Orca Conservancy

Orca conservancy is working on behalf of orcinus orca, the killer whale, and protecting the wild places on which it depends.

Animals
6
Pacific Shellfish Institute

Fostering sustainable shellfish resources and a healthy marine environment through research and education.

Science & Tech
7
Oikonos - Ecosystem Knowledge

Oikonos studies and protects imperiled ecosystems by engaging diverse communities through innovative scientific and artistic collaborations.

Science & Tech
8
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
9
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
10
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
11
Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition

Oregon shores helps citizens and visitors learn about, enjoy and defend the oregon coast through natural history education and conservation action.

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12
South Sound Estuary Association

Environmental education with a marine/estuary focus to inspire people of all ages to protect Puget Sound. In 2025. 10,031 K-12 students and 79,363 adults took part in an environmental education opportunity focused on marine and estuary…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Maritime Center and the most unlike its peers is The Carbon Underground. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and AdoptionEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Cancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsAt-Risk Youth MentoringUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Land Conservation Organizat…Classical Music Ensembles
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,514

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.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
20/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EZ HEART & SOUL RESCUE — $25,500 · OtherEZ HEART & SOUL RESCUEMINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND INC — $10,000 · OtherMINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND INCSCRIPPS INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY — $10,000 · OtherSCRIPPS INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHYE Z HEART & SOUL RESCUE & SANCTUARY — $10,000 · OtherE Z HEART & SOUL RESCUE & SANCTUARYMAYA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherMAYA FOUNDATIONThe Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School — $7,500 · OtherANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN — $10,000 · OtherANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN+26 more — $82,000 · Other+26 moreTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL R…Earth Island Institute Inc — $5,000 · EnvironmentEarth Islan…OCEANA INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INCOceanic Preservation Society — $5,000 · EnvironmentOceanic Pre…CASCADIA WILD — $2,500 · EnvironmentCASCADIA WI…Oregon Parks Forever — $2,500 · EnvironmentOregon Park…THE CARBON UNDERGROUND — $2,500 · EnvironmentTHE CARBON …VASHON-MAURY ISLAND NATURE CENTER — $2,500 · EnvironmentVASHON-MAUR…THE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTER — $1,500 · EnvironmentHARBOR WILDWATCH — $1,500 · EnvironmentTHE SHADOW PROJECT — $7,500 · EducationTHE SHADOW …MARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE — $6,500 · EducationMARINE CONS…THE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC — $5,000 · EducationTHE CAMPHIL…MY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationMY STUFF BA…LOS ROBLES CHILDRENS CHOIR INC — $3,800 · EducationLOS ROBLES …SCHOOLHOUSE SUPPLIES INC — $2,500 · EducationSCHOOLHOUSE…+2 more — $1,500 · EducationHaven — $15,000 · AnimalsHavenMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $5,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY B…OLD DOG HAVEN — $5,000 · AnimalsOLD DOG HA…SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $1,500 · AnimalsTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $1,000 · AnimalsRETURN TO FREEDOM INC — $1,000 · Animals+1 more — $500 · AnimalsWilderness Youth Project Inc — $15,500 · Youth DevelopmentOREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentFriends of Tryon Creek — $16,000 · Recreation & SportsONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY — $5,000 · Human ServicesPEACE IN SCHOOLS — $2,500 · Human ServicesADVENTURES WITHOUT LIMITS — $2,500 · Human Services
Other$165,000Environment$33,000Education$31,800Animals$29,000Youth Development$24,000Recreation & Sports$16,000Human Services$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFriends of Tryon Creek — $16,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc — $15,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHaven — $15,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHADOW PROJECT — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE — $6,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS — $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE EXPLORERS CLUB — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE MEGAFAUNA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD DOG HAVEN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCEANA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOceanic Preservation Society — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ROBLES CHILDRENS CHOIR INC — $3,800 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSCHOOLHOUSE SUPPLIES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOregon Parks Forever — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUZUKI ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CARBON UNDERGROUND — $2,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPEACE IN SCHOOLS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVASHON-MAURY ISLAND NATURE CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGROW PORTLAND — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTURES WITHOUT LIMITS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOREGON SUZUKI INSTITUTE — $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWaterWatch of Oregon — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASHON-MAURY ISLAND HERITAGE ASSOCIATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHARBOR WILDWATCH — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Spark Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRETURN TO FREEDOM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPortland Youth Philharmonic Association — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASHON ISLAND PET PROTECTORS — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWind & Oar Boat School — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC YOUTH CHOIR — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Juan Young TrustThe Oregon Community …The Autzen FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…Rose E Tucker Charita…The Jackson FoundationThe Reser Family Foun…The Holzman FoundationRonald W Naito Md Fou…James F & Marion L Mi…The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial Trust
Juan Young TrustOR29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Juan Young Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust

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 Humphreys Family Foundation of Scottsdale 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 36%
  • Youth Rights & Justice — 81% of income from government
  • WaterWatch of Oregon — 61% of income from government
  • Adventures Without Limits — 39% of income from government
  • Grow Portland — 36% of income from government
  • The Shadow Project — 8% of income from government
  • Portland Opera Association Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Pacific Youth Choir — 1% of income from government
  • Portland Youth Philharmonic Association — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Humphreys Family Foundation of Scottsdale?

Find your warmest path to Humphreys Family Foundation of Scottsdale 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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