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Ross and Patty McCallister Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$451k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$1.0MHealth$619kFood & Nutrition$343kHuman Services$241kArts & Culture$108kPhilanthropy$70kRecreation & Sports$26kReligion$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $181k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $226k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$369k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION$100,000
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA - TUCSON$76,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - ARIZONA CHAPTER$50,000
ARIZONA CENTER FOR AUTISM$25,000
BPS FOUNDATION$25,000
TOYS FOR TOTS$20,000
YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA$16,000
MINNIE'S FOOD PANTRY$15,000
TUCSON ARIZONA BOYS CHORUS$10,000
UNITED WAY OF TUCSON & SOUTHERN ARIZONA$10,000
FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER$10,000
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK INC$10,000
KATY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES$10,000
THE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN AZ$10,000
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK$10,000
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 (FY19–24, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $2k → 13%CIRCLE OF HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS: $15k → 15%TFI FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 16%EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS: $10k → 15%TFI FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 16%EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS: $5k → 15%EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $1k → 9%SPREAD THREADS CLOTHING BANK: $1k → 15%SPREADING THREADS CLOTHING BANK: $1k → 15%YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $17k → 15%YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $17k → 15%YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $16k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $1k → 15%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

IL
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AZ
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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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 30 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
17

Total granted

$2.2M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+25%

Still filing today

90%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • University of Arizona Foundation
    2× · 2020–2024 · $365k · revenue +54%
  • AC
    Arizona Center for Autism Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +121%
  • NM
    New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc
    5× · 2019–2023 · $131k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY OF TUCSON
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • GR
    GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • CO
    Circle of Hope Community Center
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +22%

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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition
3
Impact of Southern Arizona

Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.

Community Improvement
4
Tempe Community Action Agency Inc

TCAA's mission is to eliminate poverty and advance equitable communities. This mission is achieved through the delivery of comprehensive human services programs designed to improve housing stability, increase food security, improve health…

Community Improvement
5
Tucson Family Food Project Inc

The mission of the tucson family food project is to provide meals for children who are struggling with food insecurity, while teaching them how to cook food for themselves in their own homes.

Food & Nutrition
6
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
7
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
8
Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
9
Banner Health

Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".

Health
10
Waste Not Inc

Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
11
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
12
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foster Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Bps Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Ymca Youth DevelopmentFood Banks and PantriesCancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…United Way AffiliatesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Elementary Literacy TutoringEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Food PantriesCommunity College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr17%5%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr10%25%35–55yr12%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%1%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr15%10%20–35yr10%15%35–55yr12%63%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
16%
4,465/28,440

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
28/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Arizona Foundation — $365,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona FoundationArizona Center for Autism Inc — $150,000 · EducationArizona Center for Autism IncNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc — $131,250 · EducationNew Mexico State Univ Fdn IncIMAGO DEI MIDDLE SCHOOL — $45,000 · EducationIMAGO DEI MIDDLE SCHOOLMake Way For Books — $26,043 · Education+2 more — $25,000 · EducationTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA - TUCSON — $284,000 · OtherTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERI…SALPOINTE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $153,750 · OtherSALPOINTE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $70,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANKFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER — $65,000 · OtherFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTERTHE SALVATION ARMY OF TUCSON — $40,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY OF TUCSONBPS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherGOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC — $25,000 · Other+12 more — $51,600 · Other+12 moreCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $367,500 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUN…TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $27,000 · HealthTU NIDITO CHILDREN A…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $25,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED …+4 more — $24,000 · Health+4 moreKaty Christian Ministries — $60,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $50,000 · Human ServicesEL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Human ServicesBROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesCircle of Hope Community Center — $10,000 · Human Services+5 more — $11,612 · Human ServicesST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $70,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Inc — $57,000 · Food & NutritionMINNIES FOOD PANTRY INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionTHREE SQUARE — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $1,000 · Food & NutritionTUCSON ARIZONA BOYS CHORUS — $102,500 · Arts & CultureARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM — $5,000 · Arts & CultureUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc — $50,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Philanthropy
Education$742,293Other$714,350Health$444,000Human Services$191,612Food & Nutrition$188,000Arts & Culture$107,500Philanthropy$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $367,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $365,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetArizona Center for Autism Inc — $150,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc — $131,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTUCSON ARIZONA BOYS CHORUS — $102,500 over 6y, 17% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER — $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKaty Christian Ministries — $60,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $57,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMINNIES FOOD PANTRY INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIMAGO DEI MIDDLE SCHOOL — $45,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $27,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMake Way For Books — $26,043 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $25,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBPS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE — $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCircle of Hope Community Center — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHREE SQUARE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEN'S BELLS INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSister Jose Women's Center — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTFI FAMILY SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrain Injury Alliance of Arizona — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWE CARE TUCSON — $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEL GRUPO YOUTH CYCLING — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPREADING THREADS CLOTHING BANK — $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC — $1,112 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTucson Conquistadores Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD FT LOWELL LIVE AT HOME PROGRAM — $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRED ROSE INSPIRATION FOR ANIMALS IN TINA ALLEGREZZA — $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Hs Lopez Family F…Arizona Community Fou…Jewish Community Foun…Mc Companies - Sharin…United Way of Tucson …Texas Instruments Fou…Ashton Family Foundat…The Intuit FoundationThe Haugh FoundationAngel Charity for Chi…Social Venture Partne…
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ43.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Mc Companies - Sharing the Good Life Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Ashton Family Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · The Haugh Foundation · Angel Charity for Children Inc · Social Venture Partners Tucson

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 Ross and Patty McCallister 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ross and Patty McCallister Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ross and Patty McCallister Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 52 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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