· Private foundation
Otto & Edna Neely Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $624k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $264k
| 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 |
| CHOICE PREG CENTERS OF GREATER PHOE | $35,000 |
| MESA PRESYTERIAN MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $32,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $32,000 |
| COLLEGE BOUND AZ | $30,000 |
| MISSION OF MERCY | $30,000 |
| HOUSE OF REFUGE | $30,000 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSN | $25,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $20,000 |
| Amanda Hope Rainbow Angels | $20,000 |
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 (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 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 +43% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- HOHOUSE OF REFUGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $354k · revenue +301%
- STSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA7× · 2018–2024 · $250k · revenue +2%
- ANARIZONA NATIONAL LIVESTOCK SHOW INC6× · 2017–2022 · $159k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- CCCHILD CRISIS ARIZONAone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +18%
- CCCAMPUS CHRISTIAN CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $53k
- MCMARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDNone grant, 2018 · $26k
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
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…
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.
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…
Foster excellence in youth by facilitating artistic, cultural, and personal development through choral education and performance.
Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.
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.
One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans
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.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley and 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
72 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 2017–2025, 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; 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 HOUSE OF REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds MESA PRESBYTERIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA NATIONAL LIVESTOCK SHOW INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHANDLER SERVICE CLUB ↗
- Who funds Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF ↗
- Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds GILBERT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RYAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA OUTDOOR ADVENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MESA ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds College Bound ↗
- Who funds GABRIELS ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds 100 CLUB OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds St Joseph the Worker ↗
- Who funds AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS ↗
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 · 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
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 Otto & Edna Neely 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.
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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