Arizona · 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.
- $530k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 27
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Idealistic Cause Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $530k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $482k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $417k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $380k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ajo Center for Sustainable Agriculture | $125,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Jose's Closet Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 17% |
| Autism Science Foundation | $80,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Waste Not Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Justa Center Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Eve's Place Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tremble Clefs Arizona | $50,000 | 3 | 26% |
| Arizona Women's Recovery Center | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Read Better Be Better | $50,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary | $50,000 | 3 | 13% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($712k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Idealistic Cause Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Idealistic Cause Foundation
- How much does Idealistic Cause Foundation give?
- Idealistic Cause Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $530,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 27 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Idealistic Cause Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Health (17%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
- Who are Idealistic Cause Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Ajo Center for Sustainable Agriculture ($125k), Jose's Closet Inc ($80k), Autism Science Foundation ($80k).
- Does Idealistic Cause Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Idealistic Cause Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Idealistic Cause Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Thunderbirds Charities, Valley of the Sun United Way.
- Where is Idealistic Cause Foundation based?
- Idealistic Cause Foundation is based in AZ.
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