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Lacygoldenstein Fund
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEDONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | $10,250 |
| THE GADEN SHARTSE CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA HEALTHCARE OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPY | $1,000 |
| SEDONA SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| THE ARTISTS FORUM | $500 |
| SEDONA SYMPHONY | $500 |
| FINE ART MUSEUM OF SEDONA | $500 |
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 (FY17–21, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Lacygoldenstein Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 3 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SISedona International Film Festival & Workshop9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +156%
- VVVERDE VALLEY SANCTUARY6× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +1%
- SSSEDONA SYMPHONY6× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +217%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
- SJST JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC PARISHone grant, 2021 · $1k
- HWHealthy World Sedonaone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +261% · 31% of their budget
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.
The mission of the organization is to operate as an active community food bank for the distribution of food and food programs thourghout the sedona area. the food bank is supported through contributions from individuals and other…
Musical performance and education.
To advocate on behalf of reptiles through Rescue, Relocation, Rehabilitation and Education
The Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory SABO is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of the birds of southeastern Arizona, their habitats and the diversity of species that share those habitats through research,…
The Sedona Community Center's mission is to enhance quality of life for people of the greater Sedona community through our award winning food programs, outstanding exercise and educational activities, and compassionate supportive services.
Unify sedona promotes diversity
Support Education Conservation and Research on Various Phoenix Preserves
To support and educate.
Providing Cultural Arts to the Community
Keep Sedona Beautiful is committed to protect and sustain the scenic beauty and natural environment of Sedona and the Verde Valley
To present world-class dance artistry onstage. We aim to make all forms of dance relevant, accessible, and inviting to the widest possible audience while maintaining financial stability. To offer artistic immersion in the most significant…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sedona Arts Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Free Soul. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
24 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. 24 of the 35 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 Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop ↗
- Who funds VERDE VALLEY SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds CORNUCOPIA COMMUNITY ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds SEDONA ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SEDONA SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds SEDONA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Gaden Sharste Cultural Foundation ↗
- Who funds PLAN B FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sedona Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SEDONA PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ORPHAN ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SEDONA CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds RED ROCKS MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds SEDONA AREA HOMELESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SEDONA ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN AZ RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FREE SOUL ↗
- Who funds Gardens for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds Healthy World Sedona ↗
- Who funds VETERANS FIRST LIMITED ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SISTERHOOD CONNECTION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEDONA RECYCLES 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: Arizona Community Foundation · The Kling Family Foundation · The Zachary Barker Chittick Foundation · John W and Clara C Higgins Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lacygoldenstein Fund 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.
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.
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