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Martha R Neff Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$49kYouth Development$15kPhilanthropy$12kArts & Culture$12kRecreation & Sports$10kEnvironment$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$428k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLARSHIPS A-Z$16,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON$9,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ARIZONA GRANTMAKERS FORUM: $12k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%ASU FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA: $10k → 11%STEP: $10k → 15%SCHOLARSHIPS A-Z: $16k → 15%AMPHITHEATER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%STRATFORD ARTWORK INC: $3k → 15%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON: $9k → 15%EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%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 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
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
2
Science Foundation Arizona

Science foundation arizona's mission is to diversify arizona's economy by investing in scientific and engineering research linked to industry needs and investing in education to create a work force with 21st centrury skills.

Philanthropy
3
University of Arizona Alumni Association

Cultivate lifelong connections, strengthen commitment to the university and inspire advocacy, engagement and giving.

4
Arizona Educational Foundation Inc

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

5
Arizona Cpa Foundation for Education and Innovation

The arizona cpa foundation for education and innovationin coordination with the arizona society of cpas supports programs and initiatives in education and practice which enhance excellence and innovation in the profession of accountancy.

Philanthropy
6
Arizona Architecture Foundation

Our mission is to enhance the welfare of the phoenix metro community by promoting excellence in architecture and the built environment by supporting the education of future architects, supporting and promoting the profession of…

Community Improvement
7
Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Arizona Site Steward Program Foundation
Education
9
Arizona State University Alumni Association

To advance arizona state university by enriching the lives of alumni, students and friends and fostering their lifelong connections all while continuing to provide services and programs to alumni.

10
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
11
Arizona Aerospace Foundation

The foundation's mission is to create unlimited horizons in aerospace education through the preservation and presentation of the history of flight. both the pima air & space museum and the titan missile museum have strong commitments to…

Arts & Culture
12
Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Stratford Art Works 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARIZONA GRANTMAKERS FORUM — $12,000 · OtherARIZONA GRANTMAKERS FORUMSTEP — $10,000 · OtherSTEPAmphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc — $10,000 · OtherAmphitheater Public Schools Foundation In…SOUTHERN AZ VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · OtherSOUTHERN AZ VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT ASSOCIAT…PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · OtherPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCSCHOLARSHIPSA Z — $16,000 · EducationSCHOLARSHIPSA ZARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION F…EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATIONUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $5,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona FoundationTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON — $9,000 · Arts & CultureTUCSON CHILD…Stratford Art Works Inc — $3,000 · Arts & CultureStratford Ar…SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE — $10,000 · EnvironmentSKY ISLAND…SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OL…
Other$40,000Education$36,000Arts & Culture$12,000Environment$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCHOLARSHIPSA Z — $16,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetARIZONA GRANTMAKERS FORUM — $12,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKY ISLAND ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON — $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStratford Art Works Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Mulcahy Foundation · Absolon Foundation · Marshall Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Graesser Foundation · Margaret E Mooney Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Community Food Bank Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Martha R Neff 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

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    How do I get to Martha R Neff Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Martha R Neff Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 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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