How much does Otto & Edna Neely Foundation give?

Otto & Edna Neely Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $1,016,855 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 67 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Otto & Edna Neely Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (25%), Human Services (21%), Housing & Shelter (12%).

Who are Otto & Edna Neely Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: House of Refuge Inc ($354k), Mesa Presbyterian Ministries Inc ($280k), Save the Family Foundation of Arizona ($250k).

Does Otto & Edna Neely Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Otto & Edna Neely Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Otto & Edna Neely Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Thunderbirds Charities, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust.

Where is Otto & Edna Neely Foundation based?

Otto & Edna Neely Foundation is based in AZ.

Otto & Edna Neely Foundation

Otto & Edna Neely Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Otto & Edna Neely Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$126k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.6MHuman Services$1.4MHousing & Shelter$767kArts & Culture$719kFood & Nutrition$428kHealth$390kReligion$375kCommunity Improvement$231kOther$0

02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k27 grants · $129k
$10k–50k30 grants · $624k
$50k–250k3 grants · $264k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA CENTER	$125,500
Arizona State University	$88,000
SAVE THE FAMILY FNDN	$50,000
Arizona Agriculture Foundation FFA	$47,900
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY	$40,000
MESA PRESYTERIAN MINISTRIES	$35,000
CHOICE PREG CENTERS OF GREATER PHOE	$35,000
Individual grant recipient	$32,500
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA	$32,000
HOUSE OF REFUGE	$30,000
MISSION OF MERCY	$30,000
COLLEGE BOUND AZ	$30,000
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSN	$25,000
CHANDLER SERVICE CLUB	$20,000
AZ 4-H YOUTH FOUNDATION	$20,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $747k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.1M · 95 repeat orgs$445k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

95 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.1M

$375k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+18%

Still filing today

58%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

HO
HOUSE OF REFUGE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $354k · revenue +301%
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SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA
7× · 2018–2024 · $250k · revenue +2%
AN
ARIZONA NATIONAL LIVESTOCK SHOW INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $159k · revenue +170%

Funded once

CC
CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +18%
CC
CAMPUS CHRISTIAN CENTER INC
one grant, 2017 · $53k
MC
MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN
one grant, 2018 · $26k

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.

Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy

Arizona Wins

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…

Civil Rights

Arizona Theatre Company

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.

Arts & Culture

Pro-Choice Arizona

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…

Health

Phoenix Childrens Chorus Inc

Foster excellence in youth by facilitating artistic, cultural, and personal development through choral education and performance.

Arts & Culture

Arizona Latin-American Medical Association

Unclassified

Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

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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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One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights

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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Home Matters to Arizona

Home matters to arizona is the first statewide home matters initiative focused on a new generation of affordable housing, connected communities, and healthier individuals, families, and economies. we add housing units while encouraging…

Housing & Shelter

The Phoenix Chorale

Nurture and amplify the strength and resonance of arizonas choral artistry through live concert experiences performed by professional singers living in arizona, and via recordings and other media for those outside the state to know and…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley; the most unlike its peers is College Bound. 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

72 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. 72 of the 152 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

71/72

Grantees still filing

54/72

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,810,087Human Services$762,250Housing & Shelter$714,319Education$472,500Arts & Culture$395,300Food & Nutrition$220,906Health$187,500

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

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ66.3× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn · John F Long Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund US Bank National Association

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 Otto & Edna Neely Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Otto & Edna Neely Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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