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Paul Bryant Smith Foundation at a glance

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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.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$69kArts & Culture$65kHealth$43kCrime & Legal$24kAnimals$15kRecreation & Sports$12kHuman Services$10kEnvironment$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$6,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$674k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REID PARK ZOO$10,000
STEP UP TO JUSTICE$6,000
CHILDRENS MUSEUM TUCSON$6,000
BENS BELLS$6,000
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$5,000
THE HELIOS ENSEMBLE$1,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $5k → 18%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $5k → 15%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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$104k · 6 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$104k
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+78%

Still filing today

83%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • AP
    ARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA
    4× · 2019–2022 · $40k
  • SU
    Step Up To Justice
    4× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +7%
  • BB
    BEN'S BELLS INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue -21%

Funded once

  • University of Arizona Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $69k · revenue +20%
  • TN
    TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -3%
  • BA
    BALLET ARTS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +167%
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
Tucson Symphony Society

The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.

Arts & Culture
2
Tucson Values Teachers

To elevate the teaching profession in southern arizona by empowering and celebrating prek-12 teacher excellence through community engagement and investment.

Employment
3
Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum
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4
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
5
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
6
Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Tucson Medical Center

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.

Health
8
Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce

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…

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9
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
10
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
11
United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc

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…

Philanthropy
12
Phoenix Children's Hospital

To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tucson Children's Museum Inc Dba Children's Museum Tucson; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Arizona Foundation: $69,217 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundat…ARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA: $40,000 · OtherARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIAIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPROJECT LINUS: $5,200 · OtherPROJECT LINUSFRIENDS OF CROWN POINT: $5,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CROWN POINTWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherEL RIO FOUNDATION INCPima Council on Aging: $5,200 · OtherPima Council on AgingYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $5,200 · OtherYOUTH ON THEIR OWNTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $7,000 · OtherTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS+1 more: $466 · OtherTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · HealthTU NIDITO CHILDR…BEN'S BELLS INC: $13,000 · HealthBEN'S BELLS INCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNI…TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON: $12,000 · Arts & CultureTUCSON CHI…BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET ART…THE HELIOS ENSEMBLE: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HELIOS…Step Up To Justice: $23,500 · Crime & LegalStep Up T…REID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · AnimalsHumane Society of Southern Arizona: $5,000 · AnimalsTECOLOTE YOUTH BASEBALL: $12,000 · Youth Development
Education$69,217Other$85,066Health$38,000Arts & Culture$25,000Crime & Legal$23,500Animals$15,000Youth Development$12,000

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 budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $69,217 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStep Up To Justice: $23,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBEN'S BELLS INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTECOLOTE YOUTH BASEBALL: $12,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET ARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society of Southern Arizona: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HELIOS ENSEMBLE: $3,000 over 3y, 1.4% 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.

Community Foundation …Jewish Community Foun…The Hs Lopez Family F…Connie Hillman Family…The Intuit FoundationArizona Community Fou…Tucson Medical CenterJohn M Simpson Founda…Marshall FoundationUnited Way of Tucson …Texas Instruments Fou…Zuckerman Family Foun…
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Paul Bryant Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul Bryant Smith Foundation. 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%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    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.

    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 21 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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