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Iverson Family Foundation at a glance

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Iverson Family 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$6kEducation$4kHousing & Shelter$4kHuman Services$2kArts & Culture$2kFood & Nutrition$1kInternational$500
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$141k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEN'S BELLS$2,000
ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL$2,000
BEADS OF COURAGE$1,250
TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$500
THE HAVEN$500
EXODUS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$500
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA$500
LOFT CINEMA$500
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES$300
FOX TUCSON THEATRE$250
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA$250
ARIZONA DIAPER BANK$250
SCULPTURE TUCSON$250
PATRONATO SAN XAVIER$250
POVERELLO HOUSE OF TUCSON$200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%POVERELLO HOUSE OF TUCSON: $200 → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $500 → 15%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10k · 7 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$10k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+56%

Still filing today

86%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • SM
    ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k
  • BO
    BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING
    3× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue -24%
  • EC
    Exodus Community Services Inc
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1k · revenue -35%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LEARNING COMMUNITY FOR TLC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • YO
    YOUTH ON THEIR OWNgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +56%
  • SJ
    Sister Jose Women's Centergraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +89%
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
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Tempe Community Action Agency Inc

TCAA's mission is to eliminate poverty and advance equitable communities. This mission is achieved through the delivery of comprehensive human services programs designed to improve housing stability, increase food security, improve health…

Community Improvement
3
Justa Center Inc

A resource and day-center for seniors, age 55+, providing guidance and support on the PATH back to housing; and CARE supportive services to prevent a return to homelessness.

—
4
Society of St Vincent de Paul Tucson

The mission of SSVDP is to promote the spiritual growth of its members through prayer, friendship, and service to others.

Religion
5
Old Pueblo Community Services

Established in 1996, Old Pueblo Community Services has delivered housing and support services for people facing homelessness in Pima County. The organization serves various populations, including families, veterans, youth, individuals with…

Philanthropy
6
Southeastern Arizona Behavioral Health Services Inc

Our mission is continually to improve the quality of life for the people we serve in collaboration with our diverse communities in a respectful, caring, culturally sensitive manner. The organization provides behavioral health services for…

Health
7
Pima Council on Aging

Our mission is to promote dignity and respect for aging, and to advocate for independence in the lives of Pima County's older adults and their families, now and for generations to come.

Human Services
8
Tmm Family Services Inc

TMM's mission is to provide quality affordale housing, essential education, and stabiliity for qualifying low-income seniors, single parents, and veterans within the Greater Tucson area.

—
9
Impact of Southern Arizona

Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.

Community Improvement
10
Paz De Cristo Community Center

To feed, clothe and empower those struggling with hunger, poverty homelessness in the city of Mesa, Arizona area, by serving over 70,000 hot evening meals per year. (Continued on Schedule O, Statement 2)

Food & Nutrition
11
Corazon Az

CORAZÓN-AZ's mission is to cultivate and foster a welcoming and safe community of Arizonans from vast faith traditions and beliefs, schools, and allied organizations; united in expanding our democracy, economic dignity, immigrant justice,…

Civil Rights
12
Habitat for Humanity Tucson Inc

Seeking a more compassionate and just world, Habitat for Humanity Tucson brings people together to build homes, community and hope.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Community Services; the most unlike its peers is Exodus Community Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
8/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL: $3,000 · OtherST MICHAEL'S SCHOOLTHE HAVEN: $1,000 · OtherTHE HAVENTHE LEARNING COMMUNITY FOR TLC: $1,000 · OtherTHE LEARNING COMMUNITY FOR TLCPATRONATO SAN XAVIER: $750 · OtherPATRONATO SAN XAVIERCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN AZ: $500 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN AZCASA MARIA: $500 · OtherCASA MARIAKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC: $500 · OtherKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INCInterfaith Community Services: $300 · Other+2 more: $500 · Other+2 moreBEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING: $2,150 · HealthBEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CE…BEN'S BELLS INC: $2,000 · HealthBEN'S BELLS INCTucson Interfaith HIVAIDS Network: $500 · HealthTucson Interfaith HIVAIDS N…Exodus Community Services Inc: $1,400 · Housing & ShelterExodus Communit…The Primavera Foundation Inc: $800 · Housing & ShelterThe Primavera F…Sister Jose Women's Center: $500 · Housing & ShelterSister Jose Wom…POVERELLO HOUSE OF TUCSON: $900 · Human ServicesYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $500 · Human ServicesTucson Symphony Society: $500 · Arts & CultureLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Arts & CultureSCULPTURETUCSONORG INC: $250 · Arts & CultureCommunity Food Bank Inc: $500 · Food & NutritionMOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC: $500 · Food & NutritionCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $100 · Food & NutritionArizona Diaper Bank: $250 · Religion
Other$8,050Health$4,650Housing & Shelter$2,700Human Services$1,400Arts & Culture$1,250Food & Nutrition$1,100Religion$250

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 budgetBEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING: $2,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEN'S BELLS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetExodus Community Services Inc: $1,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HAVEN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOVERELLO HOUSE OF TUCSON: $900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATRONATO SAN XAVIER: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTucson Symphony Society: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSister Jose Women's Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTucson Interfaith HIVAIDS Network: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInterfaith Community Services: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCULPTURETUCSONORG INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Diaper Bank: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $100 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.

Community Foundation …The Hs Lopez Family F…Arizona Community Fou…Jewish Community Foun…Connie Hillman Family…United Way of Tucson …Fred & Christine Arms…William and Mary Ross…Hickey Foundation IncTexas Instruments Fou…John and Helen Murphe…The Kai Family Founda…
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ40.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · William and Mary Ross Foundation · Hickey Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · John and Helen Murphey Foundation Inc · The Kai Family Foundation

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 Iverson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Iverson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Iverson Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Iverson Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 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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