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Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY TO FAMILY ROMANIAN OUTREACH | $30,000 |
| FAMILY TO FAMILY ROMANIAN OUTREACH | $25,000 |
| HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MISS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| FAMILY TO FAMILY ROMANIAN OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| HOPE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| BILLY'S PLACE INC | $10,000 |
| THE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| THEATER WORKS | $8,000 |
| THEATER WORKS | $7,000 |
| CM BASEBALL LEAGUE | $6,000 |
| BILLYS PLACE INC | $6,000 |
| INGHAM OKOBOJI LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP | $6,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 10% of Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr’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. Read by recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +42% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- H4HOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL4× · 2019–2022 · $48k · revenue +57%
- HFHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +29%
- NVNORTH VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY4× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- MFMISS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SFSTARRY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +155%
- PPPeteys Playgroundone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
Wishing star foundation's mission is to provide hope and lasting memories for children who are terminal or battling a life-threatening illness.
The mission of camp korey is to honor the courage, strength, and determination of children and their families living with life-altering medical conditions by providing them with a transformational experience in a fun, safe camp environment…
Every child in the world should have access to universal spiritual social-emotional learning concepts early in life so they can make better life choices for themselves and the world around them.
None
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Arizona Inc and the most unlike its peers is Family to Family Romanian Outreach Inc. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 FAMILY TO FAMILY ROMANIAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THEATER WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CM BASEBALL LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BILLY'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DEEP WITHIN REHAB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING HEROES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Peteys Playground ↗
- Who funds THE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds REDEEMING LIFE OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE TIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH ROYAL KIDS ↗
- Who funds BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI AND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL ↗
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 · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · AbbVie Foundation · American Express Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic 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 Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.