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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.

$4.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$7.7MHuman Services$2.2MHealth$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.7MCivil Rights$1.5MFood & Nutrition$1.5MCrime & Legal$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $483k
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TIME FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION$100,000
A NEW WAY OF LIFE$100,000
WESTERN CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY$100,000
PEACE OVER VIOLENCE$100,000
ACLU Foundation of Arizona$100,000
Salvation Army$100,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARA LOS NINOS: $30k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $30k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $25k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $10k → 14%ST LUKE'S HOME: $50k → 15%PROGRAM FOR TORTURE VICTIMS: $50k → 14%PROGRAM FOR TORTURE VICTIMS: $50k → 14%PROGRAM FOR TORTURE VICTIMS: $50k → 14%PROGRAM FOR TORTURE VICTIMS: $50k → 14%Homicide Survivors INc: $65k → 15%Homicide Survivors INc: $30k → 15%Homicide Survivors INc: $30k → 15%Homicide Survivors INc: $30k → 15%Homicide Survivors INc: $30k → 15%Homicide Survivors INc: $30k → 15%Homicide Survivors INc: $25k → 15%Youth on their Own: $25k → 15%Youth on their Own: $25k → 15%Youth on their Own: $25k → 15%Youth on their Own: $25k → 15%Youth on their Own: $25k → 15%Youth on their Own: $10k → 15%Youth on their Own: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
MD
AZ
DC
AL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 72 repeat orgs$735k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
17

Total granted

$22M
$575k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+5%

Still filing today

65%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +32%
  • University of Arizona Foundation
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +20%
  • LC
    LITERACY CONNECTS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $985k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • IT
    Integrative Touch
    one grant, 2024 · $165k · revenue 0% · 26% of their budget
  • AW
    A WAY OF LIFE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +5%
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 Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
2
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
3
Arizona Wins

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…

Civil Rights
4
Augustana College

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…

Education
5
Pro-Choice Arizona

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…

Health
6
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

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7
Valle Del Sol Inc

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.

Health
8
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
9
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
11
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
12
Arc of Arizona Inc

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,…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Los Ninos; 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.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 95 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
44/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Cinncinati Foundation: $2,029,500 · OtherUniversity of Cinncinati FoundationUC Foundation: $776,000 · OtherUC FoundationTime For Change Foundation: $500,000 · OtherPEACE OVER VIOLENCE: $430,000 · OtherJewish Community Foundation: $400,000 · OtherPRO PUBLICA INC: $395,000 · OtherTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $493,645 · OtherMISSION ASSET FUND: $475,000 · Other+56 more: $6,262,000 · Other+56 moreCARLETON COLLEGE: $1,900,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGEUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $1,763,215 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foun…LITERACY CONNECTS: $985,000 · EducationLITERACY CONNECTSBRIGHT PROSPECT: $260,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $250,000 · Education+6 more: $302,500 · Education+6 moreSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $325,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $325,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $320,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC: $260,000 · Youth DevelopmentCASA DE LOS NINOS: $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys to Men Tucson Inc: $132,500 · Youth DevelopmentCommunity Food Bank Inc: $1,458,335 · Food & NutritionWestern Center on Law & Poverty Inc: $475,000 · Crime & LegalTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $450,000 · Crime & LegalINITIATE JUSTICE: $250,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $7,500 · Crime & LegalA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $450,000 · HealthWESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $310,000 · HealthIntegrative Touch: $165,000 · HealthSPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $160,000 · HealthSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $515,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyOld Pueblo Community Services: $157,500 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyDignity and Power Now: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$11,761,145Education$5,460,715Youth Development$1,497,500Food & Nutrition$1,458,335Crime & Legal$1,182,500Health$1,085,000Philanthropy$1,072,500

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 budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $1,900,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $1,763,215 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $1,458,335 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $985,000 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $515,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTime For Change Foundation: $500,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $493,645 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetMISSION ASSET FUND: $475,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetWestern Center on Law & Poverty Inc: $475,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $450,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $450,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPEACE OVER VIOLENCE: $430,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $395,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $325,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $325,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $320,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetWESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $310,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $280,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $265,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC: $260,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetBRIGHT PROSPECT: $260,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetINITIATE JUSTICE: $250,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER: $250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $245,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetHomicide Survivors Inc: $240,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $230,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $200,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetProgram for Torture Victims: $200,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetInterfaith Community Services: $170,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetOur Family Services Inc: $165,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetIntegrative Touch: $165,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA: $162,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetSPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $160,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetOld Pueblo Community Services: $157,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $140,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCASA DE LOS NINOS: $135,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBoys to Men Tucson Inc: $132,500 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $132,500 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetArchaeology Southwest: $125,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSaguaro City Music Theatre: $117,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Lukes in the Desert Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetJOB PATH INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION ↗
  • Who funds PEACE OVER VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTS RUN AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
  • 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 YOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT PROSPECT ↗
  • Who funds INITIATE JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds Homicide Survivors Inc ↗
  • Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
  • Who funds Program for Torture Victims ↗

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…Weingart FoundationUnited Way of Tucson …The California Endowm…Arizona Community Fou…Connie Hillman Family…Jewish Community Foun…The California Wellne…California Community …Marshall FoundationFrederick Gardner Cot…
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ43× affinity19 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Govans Ecumenical Development Corp: 28% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 95 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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