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Kautz 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $483k
- $50k–250k30 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UA Foundation | $600,000 |
| Literacy Connects | $300,000 |
| Carleton College | $250,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC | $200,000 |
| Community Food Bank | $191,667 |
| University of Cinncinati Foundation | $145,250 |
| STUDENTS RUN LA | $140,000 |
| Tucson Botanical Gardens | $126,645 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS | $110,000 |
| Salvation Army | $100,000 |
| ACLU Foundation of Arizona | $100,000 |
| WESTERN CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY | $100,000 |
| PEACE OVER VIOLENCE | $100,000 |
| ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION | $100,000 |
| TIME FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $725k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
- CCCARLETON COLLEGE7× · 2019–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +32%
University of Arizona Foundation7× · 2019–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +20%- LCLITERACY CONNECTS7× · 2019–2025 · $985k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- ITIntegrative Touchone grant, 2024 · $165k · revenue 0% · 26% of their budget
- BCBRILLIANT CORNERSone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -71%
- TGTHE GREGORY SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +5%
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Advocates for the rights and participation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. together with our network of members and affiliated chapters, we improve systems of support, connect families, inspire communication,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Los Ninos and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 95 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 CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds Time For Change Foundation ↗
- Who funds TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds MISSION ASSET FUND ↗
- Who funds Western Center on Law & Poverty Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION ↗
- Who funds A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PEACE OVER VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS RUN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT PROSPECT ↗
- Who funds YOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INITIATE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Homicide Survivors Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
- Who funds Program for Torture Victims ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Weingart Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The California Endowment · Arizona Community Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The California Wellness Foundation · California Community Foundation · Marshall Foundation · Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation
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 Kautz Family Foundation 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.
- Govans Ecumenical Development Corp — 28% 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.