· Private foundation
Paul Bryant Smith Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REID PARK ZOO | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM TUCSON | $6,000 |
| BENS BELLS | $6,000 |
| STEP UP TO JUSTICE | $6,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| THE HELIOS ENSEMBLE | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- APARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA4× · 2019–2022 · $40k
- SUStep Up To Justice4× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +7%
- BBBEN'S BELLS INC2× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue -21%
Funded once
University of Arizona Foundationone grant, 2019 · $69k · revenue +20%- TNTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -3%
- BABALLET ARTS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +167%
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.
The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.
To elevate the teaching profession in southern arizona by empowering and celebrating prek-12 teacher excellence through community engagement and investment.
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.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The tucson museum of art and historic block connects art to life through meaningful and engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.
Tucson medical center's mission is to deliver caring, personalized, quality healthcare to patients and their families in an environment that is supportive, education-focused and compassionate.
The Tucson Metro Chamber is a membership-based business advocacy and community development organization that represents 1,500 businesses employing more than 160,000 employees in Tucson and Pima County. The Tucson Metro Chamber is committed…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Our vision is a community where every child receives a high-quality education from birth to career, every adult has the opportunity to thrive financailly and in the workplace, and every older person can retire and age with dignity and…
To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tucson Children's Museum Inc Dba Children's Museum Tucson and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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 University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Step Up To Justice ↗
- Who funds TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BEN'S BELLS INC ↗
- Who funds TECOLOTE YOUTH BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON ↗
- Who funds REID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds Pima Council on Aging ↗
- Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds THE HELIOS ENSEMBLE ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Tucson Medical Center · John M Simpson Foundation · Marshall Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Zuckerman 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 Paul Bryant Smith 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.