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Pulvermacher Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Arts & Culture$15kReligion$12kPublic Benefit$7kEducation$2kYouth Development$750Housing & Shelter$500Human Services$350Health$220Other$0
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$138k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHABAD OF PARADISE VALLEY$2,500
PROJECT VERITAS$1,500
JUDICIAL WATCH$1,500
FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO$1,500
Individual grant recipient$750
Individual grant recipient$250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $520) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 10%AGAPE HOUSE OF PRESCOTT: $500 → 14%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $20 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
AZ
KS
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33k · 9 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$33k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+34%

Still filing today

67%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthOther

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

  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +16%
  • AM
    ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +225%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2021 · $900 · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PENN LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO KBACH
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

2
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
3
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

4
Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
5
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
6
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
7
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
8
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

9
National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

10
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

11
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
12
The Santa Fe Opera

To further the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Board of Visitors. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHABAD OF PARADISE VALLEY — $11,986 · OtherCHABAD OF PARADISE VALLEYPROJECT VERITAS — $4,250 · OtherPROJECT VERITASFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO — $1,950 · OtherFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIOUNIVERSITY OF PENN LAW SCHOOL — $1,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENN LAW SCHOOLFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO KBACH — $1,000 · Other+10 more — $3,350 · Other+10 moreARIZONA OPERA COMPANY — $5,150 · Arts & CultureARIZONA OPERA COMPANYARIZONA MUSICFEST INC — $2,400 · Arts & CultureARIZONA MUSICFEST INC+1 more — $100 · Arts & CultureJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $5,500 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INCTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $900 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUND…AGAPE HOUSE OF PRESCOTT INC — $500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $100 · Human Services+1 more — $20 · Human ServicesTHE BOARD OF VISITORS — $200 · Health
Other$24,036Arts & Culture$7,650Public Benefit$6,400Human Services$620Health$200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA OPERA COMPANY — $5,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS — $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA MUSICFEST INC — $2,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTTSDALE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION — $750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAGAPE HOUSE OF PRESCOTT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF VISITORS — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC — $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds ARIZONA OPERA COMPANY
  • Who funds PROJECT VERITAS
  • Who funds ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SCOTTSDALE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AGAPE HOUSE OF PRESCOTT INC
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF VISITORS
  • Who funds NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC
  • Who funds KIDS WISH NETWORK INC

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Pulvermacher Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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