· Private foundation
Idealistic Cause Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $450k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AJO CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULT | $50,000 |
| ENCIRCLE FAMILIES | $30,000 |
| PROJECT LEMONADE | $30,000 |
| SOUND EQUINE OPTIONS HORSE RESCUE | $20,000 |
| KISMET FARMS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $20,000 |
| TREMBLE CLEFS OF ARIZONA | $20,000 |
| SAVETS | $20,000 |
| ZEBS WISH EQUINE SANCTUARY | $20,000 |
| ESTACADA FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| CLUB EMU | $20,000 |
| OUT TO PASTURE ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $20,000 |
| WHAM ARTS | $20,000 |
| SUPERIOR WILDLIFE REHAB CENTER | $20,000 |
| HULL FOUNDATION AND LEARNING CENTER | $20,000 |
| RECORDED RECREATIONAL READNG FOR BL | $20,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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 +4% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k 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
- ASAUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $80k · revenue +113%
- WNWaste Not Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +20%
- JCJUSTA CENTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $50k
- TDTHE DIAPER BANK OF CENTRAL AZone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CCCLOUD COVERED STREETSone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -15%
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.
Prevention of animal cruelty and intervention on behalf of animals being abused.
To provide resources to children in AZ DCS Custody
The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.
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…
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.
Our mission is to help as many families as possible with individualized supports. The Organization's vision is to help families statewide with comprehensive support services for all ages. In carrying out its mission, the Organization's…
AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foster Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Arizona Railroad Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 55 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 AJO CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE ↗
- Who funds Jose's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Waste Not Inc ↗
- Who funds EVE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds READ BETTER BE BETTER ↗
- Who funds Tremble Clefs Arizona ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA WOMEN'S RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds ASTER AGING INC (FKA EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES INC) ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE FOSTER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HULL FOUNDATION AND LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERED TAILS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEMONADE INC ↗
- Who funds Encircle Families ↗
- Who funds GABRIELS ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds CLOUD COVERED STREETS ↗
- Who funds OUT TO PASTURE ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
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 · Thunderbirds Charities · Valley of the Sun United Way · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund US Bank National Association · Sundt Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc
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 Idealistic Cause 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
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.