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Marshall Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $447k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UA Foundation - 20242025 SCHOLARSHIP | $200,000 |
| UA Foundation - 20242025 SCHOLARSHIPS | $200,000 |
| UA Foundation | $197,539 |
| UA Foundation | $100,000 |
| UA Foundation - Pride of Ariz Marching Band | $100,000 |
| UA Foundation - School Garden Workshop | $90,000 |
| JobPath Inc | $75,000 |
| UA Foundation - CCRMATHERMATICS DEPT | $60,000 |
| Literacy Connects | $50,000 |
| UA Foundation - Honors College | $50,000 |
| UA Foundation - AZPM | $50,000 |
| Florence Immigrant & Refuee Rights Project | $50,000 |
| Youth On Their Own | $50,000 |
| UA Foundation - TMESTEP | $49,000 |
| Sahuarita Food Bank | $40,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $430k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 12% of Marshall Foundation’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. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 14 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $872k 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
University of Arizona Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +54%- LCLITERACY CONNECTS5× · 2020–2024 · $201k · revenue +49%
- JIJOBPATH INC5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- UFUA FOUNDATION - 20222023 SCHOLARSHIPSone grant, 2022 · $198k
- UFUA FOUNDATION - 20232024 SCHOLARSHIPSone grant, 2023 · $198k
- TWThe Womens Foundation for the State of Arizonagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +210%
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.
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…
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
The Arts Foundation mission is to advance artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture in our region.
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.
To advocate for and act on education improvements that advance the quality of life for all arizonans.
CORAZÓN-AZ's mission is to cultivate and foster a welcoming and safe community of Arizonans from vast faith traditions and beliefs, schools, and allied organizations; united in expanding our democracy, economic dignity, immigrant justice,…
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…
Arizona youth partnership, (azyp), empowers youth to harness their strengths to live healthy and purposeful lives.
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc and the most unlike its peers is Books for Classrooms. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 98 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 University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds JOBPATH INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS ↗
- Who funds SAHUARITA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ↗
- Who funds CASA DE LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds Old Pueblo Community Services ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIPSA Z ↗
- Who funds The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Make Way For Books ↗
- Who funds LAPTOPS 4 LEARNING ↗
- Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Books for Classrooms ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Stocker Foundation · Social Venture Partners Tucson · Angel Charity for Children Inc · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Absolon 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 Marshall 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.
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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