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J A Unruh Family Foundation at a glance

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J A Unruh 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.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$458kScience & Tech$249kYouth Development$130kReligion$26kHuman Services$25kArts & Culture$2kCivil Rights$1kPhilanthropy$1k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTA$30,000
ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SCOTTSDALE INC$25,000
ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION$20,000
SJB CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS$10,000
GIRLS INC OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST$10,000
ATHLETES FOR KIDS$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SCOTTSDALE INC: $25k → 11%FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $50k → 22%SJB CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS: $10k → 8%AVID CENTER: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $10k → 14%EXPLORIT SCIENCE CENTER: $1k → 16%GLOBAL BRIGADES INC: $1k → 19%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $1k → 16%GOTEN INC: $1k → 15%YOUTH ENTREPRENEURS INC: $10k → 16%GIRLS INC OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $15k → 8%MUSICAL FAMILY TREE INC: $1k → 16%ATHLETES FOR KIDS: $10k → 9%URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL INC: $55k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN: $25k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SCOTTSDALE INC: $10k → 11%FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $50k → 22%CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 8%GIRLS INC OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: $5k → 12%HUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTA: $30k → 8%ATHLETES FOR KIDS: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN: $25k → 11%VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $25k → 11%FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $28k → 22%THE TECH INTERACTIVE: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN: $25k → 11%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $15k → 22%THE TECH INTERACTIVE: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN: $25k → 11%ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $15k → 22%THE TECH INTERACTIVE: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN: $15k → 11%ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $8k → 22%THE TECH INTERACTIVE: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN: $5k → 11%FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $5k → 22%THE TECH INTERACTIVE: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $25k → 8%THE TECH INTERACTIVE: $25k → 8%THE TECH INTERACTIVE: $15k → 8%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

NH
WA
ND
NY
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
AZ
KS
OK
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$666k · 10 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$666k
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+28%

Still filing today

90%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentScience & TechReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TF
    THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +31%
  • UO
    University of Jamestown
    5× · 2018–2023 · $120k · revenue +104%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC
    2× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • UI
    URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $55k · revenue +21%
  • VP
    VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • SF
    SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -38%
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
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
2
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
4
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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8
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
11
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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12
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Greater Scottsdale Inc; the most unlike its peers is Athletes for Kids. 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

23 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. 23 of the 26 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $170,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTETHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $165,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH INTERACTIVE+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $140,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHHUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTA: $30,000 · OtherHUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE …VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherVALLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHSJB Child Development Centers: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $6,000 · OtherUniversity of Jamestown: $120,000 · EducationUniversity of JamestownARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCI…Youth Entrepreneurs Inc: $10,000 · EducationCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $10,000 · Education+3 more: $3,250 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentATHLETES FOR KIDS: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentURBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL: $54,505 · InternationalSUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesMentorKids USA: $10,000 · ReligionGOTEN INC: $1,000 · Religion
Arts & Culture$337,000Other$211,000Education$198,250Youth Development$65,000International$54,505Human Services$15,000Religion$11,000

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 budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $170,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $165,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Jamestown: $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetURBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL: $54,505 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetATHLETES FOR KIDS: $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMentorKids USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSJB Child Development Centers: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExplorit Science Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICAL FAMILY TREE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOTEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL BRIGADES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVID CENTER: $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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Thunderbirds CharitiesCharities Aid Foundat…Verizon FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA13.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report 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.
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Find your warmest path to J A Unruh 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 26 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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