· Private foundation
Myers Vitkin Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 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 FY2020–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Arizona 5 Arts Circle | $7,000 |
| Heard Museum | $5,700 |
| Friends of Arizona PBS | $3,560 |
| NAU Foundation | $2,500 |
| Theater Artists Studio | $2,000 |
| Arizona Humane Society | $1,500 |
| Ballet Arizona | $1,190 |
| Museum of Northern Arizona | $1,000 |
| Los Altos History Museum | $1,000 |
| Lowell Observatory | $1,000 |
| The Arboretum of Flagstaff | $1,000 |
| Arizona Theater Company | $1,000 |
| Bay Area Glass Institute | $1,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $1,000 |
| Literary Society of the Southwest | $900 |
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 (FY20–26, $2k) 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 +30% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2026, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- THTHE HEARD MUSEUM6× · 2020–2026 · $20k · revenue +133%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2021–2026 · $10k · revenue +94%- TATHEATRE ARTISTS STUDIO INC5× · 2020–2026 · $8k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- FOFriends of Arizona Public Radioone grant, 2025 · $4k
- MCMayo Clinic Foundationone grant, 2025 · $2k
- FOFriends of Public Radio KBAQone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Phoenix art museum creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. this mission is supported by seven strategic pillars:(continued on schedule o)1. be a space…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To inspire, educate and engage curious minds through science.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The american astronomical society (aas), established in 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america. the basic objective of the aas is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…
The university of arizona foundation is committed to supporting and enhancing the vision, mission and values of the university of arizona through the development and management of private support.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley and the most unlike its peers is Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum. 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 48 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 105 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 ARIZONA ARTS CIRCLE LTD ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ARTISTS STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arizona Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds BALLET ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds LOWELL OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds Museum of Northern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE LOS ALTOS HISTORICAL MUSEUM AKA LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE BAY AREA GLASS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds MARINES' MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYCE THOMPSON SOUTHWESTERN ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX ↗
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 · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Molly and Joseph Herman Foundation · Margaret T Morris Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · L Roy Papp Charitable Trust · The Herberger Foundation · The Papp Family 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 Myers Vitkin Foundation Inc 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Shrewsbury Youth & Family Services Inc — 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Fisher College — 2% of income from government
- Fuller Craft Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.