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Livingston 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIPLOMATIC CORPS OF ARIZONA | $4,000 |
| ACT ONE | $3,500 |
| CHILDSPLAY THEATRE | $2,000 |
| TEMPE COMMUNITY COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN | $1,500 |
| FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVIC | $1,000 |
| KJZZ 915 FM | $1,000 |
| ASU FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF PHOENIX | $850 |
| BALLET ARIZONA | $800 |
| ARIZONA OPERA | $750 |
| ARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD | $600 |
| K-LOVE | $500 |
| VALLEY LEADERSHIP | $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 (FY18–20, $1k) 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 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 +33% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SDSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY7× · 2017–2023 · $32k · revenue +195%
- DBDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC6× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +72%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +196%
Funded once
- SCSeton Catholic Preparatoryone grant, 2021 · $8k
- DHDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -89%
- GVGRETCHEN V & SAMUEL M FELDMAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -20%
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.
ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The tucson museum of art and historic block connects art to life through meaningful and engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
To inspire, educate and engage curious minds through science.
Tucson botanical gardens connects people with plants and nature through art, science, history and culture.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Leadership Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private 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.
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.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 97 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 SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds ACT ONE ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF PHOENIX INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THEATER WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CALA Alliance ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GRETCHEN V & SAMUEL M FELDMAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Xico Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREVARD ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds VALLEY BLOOM ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPE COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MULLIGANS MANOR ↗
- Who funds Tempe Community Action Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds Kids in Focus ↗
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 · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Moreno Family Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Thunderbirds Charities · Garcia Family Foundation · Margaret T Morris Foundation · American Express Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · L Roy Papp Charitable Trust · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn · The Diane and Bruce Halle 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 Livingston 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.
- Brevard Achievement Center Inc — 39% 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.
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