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Lisherness Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Food & Nutrition$56kArts & Culture$55kEducation$46kCivil Rights$41kPhilanthropy$32kReligion$24kHuman Services$13kHealth$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$622k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation$12,000
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK$12,000
Iranian American Society of AZ$11,000
The Simpatico Foundation$7,000
ASU Foundation$5,000
Arizona Dance Coalition Inc$5,000
NEW SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$5,000
Ballet Arizona$4,000
American Heart Association$3,750
CHILD CRISIS CENTER$3,500
Scottsdale Center for the Arts$3,000
Phoenix World Art Collective$600
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: $2k → 11%MAYO CLINIC: $2k → 9%Jawahir Dance: $2k → 11%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%The Arizona Community Foundation Inc: $12k → 11%Musical Instrument Museum: $2k → 11%The Arizona Community Foundation Inc: $11k → 11%MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: $2k → 11%The Arizona Community Foundation Inc: $9k → 11%Arizona Dance Coalition Inc: $5k → 11%Arizona Dance Coalition Inc: $3k → 11%Arizona Dance Coalition Inc: $2k → 11%Arizona Dance Coalition Inc: $2k → 11%Ballet Arizona: $4k → 11%Ballet Arizona: $3k → 11%ST MARY'S FOOD BANK: $12k → 11%ST MARY'S FOOD BANK: $12k → 11%ST MARY'S FOOD BANK: $12k → 11%ST MARY'S FOOD BANK: $12k → 11%ST MARY'S FOOD BANK: $8k → 11%Scottsdale Center for the Arts: $3k → 11%Scottsdale Center for the Arts: $3k → 11%Scottsdale Center for the Arts: $3k → 11%ISLAMIC SPEAKERS BUREAU OF AZ: $2k → 11%Scottsdale Center for the Arts: $2k → 11%ISLAMIC SPEAKERS BUREAU OF AZ: $2k → 11%Scottsdale Center for the Arts: $2k → 11%ISLAMIC SPEAKERS BUREAU OF AZ: $2k → 11%Scottsdale Center for the Arts: $2k → 11%Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation: $12k → 11%ASU Foundation: $5k → 11%Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation: $5k → 11%NEW SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 11%American Heart Association: $4k → 11%NEW SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $4k → 11%Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation: $3k → 11%ISLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTER OF TEMPE: $3k → 11%NEW SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $3k → 11%Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation: $3k → 11%NEW SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $2k → 11%ISLAMIC SPEAKERS BUREAU OF AZ: $2k → 11%ISLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTER OF TEMPE: $2k → 11%The Simpatico Foundation: $7k → 11%HERBERGER THEATER CENTER: $2k → 11%The Simpatico Foundation: $5k → 11%Islamic Center of NE Scottsdale: $3k → 11%Islamic Center of North East Valley: $2k → 11%Islamic Center of North East Valley: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$241k · 18 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
9

Total granted

$241k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+86%

Still filing today

39%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHealthReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +31%
  • MC
    MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +108%
  • NS
    New School for the Arts
    7× · 2018–2024 · $18k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • HT
    HERBERGER THEATER CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • AS
    ARIZONA SCHOOL OF CLASSIC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Center for the Future of Arizona

Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.

Community Improvement
2
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
3
Arizona Educational Foundation Inc

To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.

4
Phoenix Conservatory of Music

The organization is committed to unleashing the power of music by providing high-quality music education and experiences that are affordable and accessible. its vision is to be a leader in music education with a focus on creative youth…

Arts & Culture
5
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
6
Amda Inc (American Musical and Dramatic Academy)

Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…

7
Arizona Opera Company

Arizona opera elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music - cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home.

Arts & Culture
8
Ballet Arts Foundation

Ballet tucson is dedicated to bringing iconic, world-class dance performances and rising star artists to tucson and to sharing explorative experiences that inspire hope and excitement in our community.

Arts & Culture
9
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
10
Santa Fe Institute

The santa fe institute is a transdisciplinary research community that expands the boundaries of scientific understanding. its aim is to discover, comprehend, and communicate the common fundamental principles in complex physical,…

Science & Tech
11
Arizona Christian University

Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.

Education
12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ballet Arizona and the most unlike its peers is The Simpatico Foundation 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Iranian American Society of AZ — $40,500 · OtherIranian American Society of AZScottsdale Center for the Arts — $15,500 · OtherScottsdale Center for the ArtsCHILD CRISIS CENTER — $13,000 · OtherCHILD CRISIS CENTERARIZONA DANCE COALITION INC — $11,000 · OtherARIZONA DANCE COALITION INCISLAMIC SPEAKERS BUREAU OF AZ — $7,500 · OtherISLAMIC SPEAKERS BUREAU OF AZISLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTER OF TEMPE — $7,000 · OtherISLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTER OF TEMPEIndividual grant recipient — $5,500 · OtherIslamic Center of NE Scottsdale — $4,500 · Other+12 more — $17,100 · Other+12 moreST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $56,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK A…ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $32,000 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOU…MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $22,500 · PhilanthropyMARICOPA COUNTY COMMU…THE SIMPATICO FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SIMPA…BALLET ARIZONA — $7,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET AR…MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM — $4,500 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL I…New School for the Arts — $17,600 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationAmerican Heart Association Inc — $8,750 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $1,500 · HealthPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $1,000 · Religion
Other$121,600Food & Nutrition$56,000Philanthropy$54,500Arts & Culture$23,500Education$22,600Health$10,250Religion$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $56,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew School for the Arts — $17,600 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SIMPATICO FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $8,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET ARIZONA — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
  • Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds New School for the Arts
  • Who funds THE SIMPATICO FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds BALLET ARIZONA
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds REGGIE SANDERS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Lisherness 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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