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Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr

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.

$693k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$177kHuman Services$97kReligion$85kHealth$74kEducation$60kRecreation & Sports$34kArts & Culture$32kYouth Development$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $322k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $285k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL$75,000
HOPE CHURCH$60,000
HOPE CHURCH$50,000
FAMILY TO FAMILY ROMANIAN OUTREACH$50,000
THEATER WORKS$50,000
FAMILY TO FAMILY ROMANIAN OUTREACH$45,000
HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION$30,000
FAMILY TO FAMILY ROMANIAN OUTREACH$30,000
THE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT$25,000
BILLYS PLACE INC$25,000
THEATER WORKS$20,000
HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
NORTH VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$20,000
FRIENDS OF OHANA$20,000
CM BASEBALL LEAGUE$15,000
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 (FY23–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES: $5k → 7%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES: $4k → 7%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%FOSTERING HEROES FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%FOSTERING HEROES FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%FOSTERING HEROES FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%FRIENDS OF OHANA: $20k → 11%DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 11%BILLYS PLACE INC: $25k → 11%BILLY'S PLACE INC: $10k → 11%BILLYS PLACE INC: $6k → 11%BILLYS PLACE INC: $3k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MN
IL
WI
IA
UT
AZ
NM
TX
FL
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 10% of Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 80%.

Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Trlessmore 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 27 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
13

Total granted

$1.2M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
-12%

Still filing today

67%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthReligionInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • H4
    HOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2019–2025 · $123k · revenue +57%
  • TW
    THEATER WORKS INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $107k · revenue +42%
  • HF
    HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $95k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • MF
    MISS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • PW
    PARTNERS WITH PAWS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

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,…

Human Services
2
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

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,…

Health
3
Onward Hope Incorporated

We are committed to improving and assisting the successful transition of at-risk young people to independent adulthood and supporting resilient families, by connecting them to resources.

Human Services
4
Child Crisis Arizona

To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.

Crime & Legal
5
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
6
Arizona's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services
7
Shield of Faith Missions

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.

Religion
8
Ability Kc

Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.

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9
Childsafe Colorado Inc

Mission: our mission is to break the cycle and heal the childhood trauma resulting from abuse and neglect with specialized treatment, education and community outreach. we believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem…

Crime & Legal
10
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
11
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
12
Mount St Vincent Home Inc

As part of intermountain health, mount saint vincent partners with children and families to heal beyond trauma into a healthy and hopeful future.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Arizona Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dysart Community Center. 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

30 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. 30 of the 47 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
15/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE CHURCH: $179,000 · OtherHOPE CHURCHTHE SALVATION ARMY: $92,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT: $35,000 · OtherTHE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECTINGHAM OKOBOJI LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP: $22,500 · OtherCM BASEBALL LEAGUE: $41,000 · OtherCM BASEBALL LEAGUEUTAH ROYAL KIDS: $17,250 · Other+17 more: $88,700 · Other+17 moreFAMILY TO FAMILY ROMANIAN OUTREACH INC: $239,000 · ReligionFAMILY TO FAMILY ROMA…+2 more: $8,000 · ReligionHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $95,000 · HealthHONORHEALTH …American Heart Association Inc: $19,000 · HealthAmerican Hea…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $17,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH …DEEP WITHIN REHAB CENTER INC: $8,000 · HealthDEEP WITHIN …STARRY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $3,000 · HealthBILLY'S PLACE INC: $43,500 · Human ServicesBILLY'S PLA…The MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support: $25,000 · Human ServicesThe MISS Fo…FRIENDS OF OHANA: $20,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF …DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $19,000 · Human ServicesDYSART COMM…FOSTERING HEROES FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING H…LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES FUND: $9,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN CH…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $123,000 · InternationalHOPE 4 KIDS…+2 more: $7,000 · International+2 moreTHEATER WORKS INC: $107,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER W…NORTH VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $65,000 · EducationBEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI AND FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationTHE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education
Other$475,450Religion$247,000Health$147,500Human Services$135,500International$130,000Arts & Culture$107,000Education$77,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY TO FAMILY ROMANIAN OUTREACH INC: $239,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetHOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $123,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHEATER WORKS INC: $107,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $65,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBILLY'S PLACE INC: $43,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCM BASEBALL LEAGUE: $41,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetThe MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support: $25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $19,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH ROYAL KIDS: $17,250 over 2y, 25% of budgetSOUTHWEST DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFOSTERING HEROES FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES FUND: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDEEP WITHIN REHAB CENTER INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI AND FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARRY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREDEEMING LIFE OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSUN VALLEY LODGE: $1,000 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…Virginia G Piper Char…Thunderbirds CharitiesThrivent Charitable I…AbbVie FoundationAmerican Express Foun…Natl Christian Charit…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ37.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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