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My Sisters Charities

The organization's mission is to make grants to other 501(c)(3) organizations and operate a job training program in connection with residents or beneficiaries of other 501(c)(3) organiations.

$290k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$1.6MHuman Services$320kArts & Culture$204kHealth$73kEnvironment$70kPublic Benefit$55kCommunity Improvement$10kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $270,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $289,818 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,318 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $196k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AZ HUMANE SOCIETY$115,000
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM$80,500
SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATI$30,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$25,000
WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC$10,000
SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
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 (FY19–23, $305k) 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%FRESH START WOMENS FOUNDATIO: $158k → 11%FRESH START WOMENS FOUNDATIO: $69k → 11%FRESH START WOMENS FOUNDATIO: $53k → 11%FRESH START WOMENS FOUNDATIO: $25k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 10 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
16

Total granted

$2.1M
$214k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+15%

Still filing today

90%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AH
    Arizona Humane Society
    6× · 2019–2024 · $904k · revenue +108%
  • FS
    FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · $305k · revenue +92%
  • PA
    PHOENIX ART MUSEUM
    6× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • DO
    DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE
    one grant, 2017 · $32k
  • AN
    AZ NATURE CONSERVANCY #200
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
2
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
3
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
4
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona

The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…

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5
Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
6
Arizona Center for Nature Conservation

The arizona center for nature conservation advances the stewardship and conservation of animals and their habitats while providing experiences that inspire people and motivate them to care for the natural world.

Animals
7
Arizona Land and Water Trust Inc

Arizona land and water trust has been a trusted partner to ranchers and farmers of southern arizona for over 40 years. the trust achieves its mission to protect land and water by working with private landowners (continued on schedule o)who…

Environment
8
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
9
Center for Biological Diversity Inc

The center for biological diversity inc, works to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. we do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and…

Animals
10
The Arizona Animal Welfare League

The mission of aawl/spca is to provide excellent care, protection, and loving compassion for the life of the animals entrusted to us and to take a leadership role in promoting humane values for the benefit of all animals and people. aawl…

Animals
11
Alliance for Arizona Animal Protection

Prevention of animal cruelty and intervention on behalf of animals being abused.

Animals
12
Aclu Foundation of Arizona

The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Southwest Wildlife Foundation. 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

23 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. 23 of the 28 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arizona Humane Society: $904,135 · AnimalsArizona Humane SocietySAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $50,433 · AnimalsSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER: $50,000 · Animals+4 more: $38,700 · AnimalsAZ HUMANE SOCIETY: $513,500 · OtherAZ HUMANE SOCIETYDEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $32,123 · OtherAZ NATURE CONSERVANCY #200: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $24,623 · OtherBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $25,000 · Other+6 more: $61,000 · Other+6 moreFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $304,758 · Human ServicesFRESH START WO…PHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $189,500 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX AR…ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAlbertine Foundation: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $6,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Heart Association Inc: $45,000 · HealthBanner Alzheimer's Foundation: $10,000 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $30,000 · Community ImprovementDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $30,000 · Environment
Animals$1,043,268Other$686,246Human Services$304,758Arts & Culture$213,500Health$65,000Community Improvement$30,000Environment$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArizona Humane Society: $904,135 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $304,758 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $189,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $50,433 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER: $50,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBanner Alzheimer's Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBARBS DOG RESCUE INC: $8,700 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAlbertine Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET ARIZONA: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $6,000 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.

Virginia G Piper Char…Arizona Community Fou…The Bessemer Giving F…American Express Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Virginia G Piper Charitable TrustAZ13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 My Sisters Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from My Sisters Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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 · 0–50%
    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 My Sisters Charities?

    Find your warmest path to My Sisters Charities 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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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