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Literary and Prologue Society of the Southwest

Celebrate contemporary literature and authors, and promote the cause of literacy in arizona.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$204kYouth Development$65kCommunity Improvement$52kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chinle Planting Hope Inc$25,000
Literacy Connects$25,000
Read Better Be Better$25,000
Make Way For Books$25,000
Valleywise Health Foundation$15,000
Elevate Phoenix$15,000
Child Crisis Arizona$5,000
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 (FY24–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%Central AZ Regional Economic Development Foundation - Achieve Pinal: $15k → 11%Gabriel's Angels: $8k → 11%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Literary and Prologue Society of the Southwest’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 75%.

Literary and Prologue Society of the Southwestlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 17% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$265k · 6 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -32% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$265k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-32%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • LC
    LITERACY CONNECTS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $56k · revenue +35%
  • RB
    READ BETTER BE BETTER
    3× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +17%
  • CP
    CHINLE PLANTING HOPE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $52k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • CA
    CENTRAL ARIZONA REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -58%
  • TO
    Three others 5K and under
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
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 Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Center for the Future of Arizona

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

Community Improvement
3
Ball Charter Schools (Val Vista)

Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.

Education
4
Arizona Next Level Basketball Found
Recreation & Sports
5
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
—
6
Education Forward Arizona

To advocate for high-quality education and training that aligns with career and workforce opportunities to advance the quality of life for all arizonans.

—
7
Genesis Program Inc

Genesis city's mission is to effect positive change in our community by empowering disadvantaged youth to acquire the education and work skills they need to become lifelong learners and productive members of their community in this and…

Human Services
8
Ball Charter Schools (Hearn)

Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.

Education
9
Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence Inc

The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.

Education
10
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
11
Arizona's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services
12
Rural Arizona Engagement

Raze mission is to educate, advocate and coordinate in rural communities so they may gain access to civic education, engagement opportunities and voter registration. continued on schedule o

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Connects; the most unlike its peers is A Stepping Stone Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LITERACY CONNECTS: $56,000 · EducationLITERACY CONNECTSREAD BETTER BE BETTER: $55,000 · EducationREAD BETTER BE BETTERMake Way For Books: $46,000 · EducationMake Way For BooksCHINLE PLANTING HOPE: $51,825 · Community ImprovementCHINLE PLANTING H…A Stepping Stone Foundation: $17,500 · OtherA Stepping Sto…Individual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual gra…Three others 5K and under: $13,000 · OtherThree others 5…VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $38,500 · HealthVALLEYWISE H…ELEVATE PHOENIX: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRAL ARIZONA REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $15,000 · Human ServicesGABRIELS ANGELS INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$157,000Community Improvement$51,825Other$45,500Health$38,500Youth Development$25,000Human Services$22,500Crime & Legal$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $56,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetREAD BETTER BE BETTER: $55,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCHINLE PLANTING HOPE: $51,825 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetMake Way For Books: $46,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $38,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetA Stepping Stone Foundation: $17,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGABRIELS ANGELS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $5,000 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.

Arizona Community Fou…Fiesta Events IncThunderbirds CharitiesNina Mason Pulliam Ch…John F Long Foundatio…American Express Foun…The Bob & Renee Parso…Valley of the Sun Uni…Virginia G Piper Char…Enterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Literary and Prologue Society of the Southwest funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Literary and Prologue Society of the Southwest. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Literary and Prologue Society of the Southwest 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 13 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 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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