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McIntosh Family Foundation at a glance

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McIntosh Family 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.

$171k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$76k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$373kEnvironment$162kHealth$80kPhilanthropy$31kAnimals$30kPublic Benefit$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THRIVE AZ$76,456
HEROICAZ$25,000
REALIZE IMPACT$25,000
UNITED WAY$20,000
360 EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC$10,000
TIGER MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION$10,000
GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $408k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%REALIZE IMPACT: $25k → 10%THRIVE AZ: $210k → 11%THRIVE AZ: $76k → 11%THRIVE AZ: $46k → 11%THRIVE AZ: $40k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $10k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$582k · 5 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$582k
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+87%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentHealthAnimalsArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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

  • TA
    THRIVE AZ FOSTER CARE PREVENTION REUNIFICATION AND AGED OUT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $373k · revenue +672%
  • AC
    ARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +116%
  • SA
    SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +21%
  • CC
    CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM ARIZONA
    one grant, 2023 · $26k
  • FP
    FOOTPRINT PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +274%
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
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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2
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

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3
Arizona Forward Association

Arizona Forward brings business and civic leaders together to promote cooperative efforts to improve the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of our state and local regions.

Community Improvement
4
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
5
Arizona Solar Energy Industries Assoc

AriSEIAs mission is to develop and support policies that create opportunities to advance Arizonas economy through solar energy and storage. AriSEIA advocates for sustainable job creation in deployment of solar and complementary…

Arts & Culture
6
Environmental Fund for Arizona Inc Dba Efaz

Efaz serves, preserves and improves az's environment by raising awareness, volunteers and finanical support through workplace giving campaigns.

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7
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
8
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
9
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
10
Arizona Site Steward Program Foundation
Education
11
Arizona Grantmakers Forum

To encourage, assist, promote private philanthropy to increase the awareness, appreciation, effectiveness of private philanthropy by providing information, networking opportunities, technical assistance, related services to private…

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12
Arizona Regional Economic Development Foundation

Preservation and strengthening of the regional economy through initiatives focused on industry recruitment, expansion and development. The mission is accomplished by providing consulting services, promotion of special events, and leasing…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley; the most unlike its peers is Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THRIVE AZ FOSTER CARE PREVENTION REUNIFICATION AND AGED OUT: $372,748 · Human ServicesTHRIVE AZ FOSTER CARE PREVENTION REUNIFICATION AND AGED O…Realize Impact: $25,000 · Human ServicesRealize Impact+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesTigerMountain Foundation Inc: $152,200 · EnvironmentTigerMountain Foundati…DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentDESERT BOTANICAL GARDE…HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthHAZELDEN …SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $20,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST…HEROICAZ: $25,000 · OtherHEROICAZUNITED WAY: $20,000 · OtherUNITED WAY360 EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Other360 EDUCATI…ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,000 · OtherARIZONA COM…ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $10,000 · OtherARIZONA-SON…Grand Canyon University: $7,500 · OtherGrand Canyo…ARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION: $30,000 · AnimalsCONSCIOUS CAPITALISM ARIZONA: $26,000 · Public BenefitFOOTPRINT PROJECT: $25,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Human Services$407,748Environment$162,200Health$70,000Other$83,500Animals$30,000Public Benefit$26,000Public Safety & Disaster$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHRIVE AZ FOSTER CARE PREVENTION REUNIFICATION AND AGED OUT: $372,748 over 4y, 23% of budgetTigerMountain Foundation Inc: $152,200 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTPRINT PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetRealize Impact: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $7,500 over 2y, 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 McIntosh Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McIntosh Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to McIntosh Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to McIntosh Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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