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Sb 4 Charitable Fund

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$39k
Granted FY2020
18
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$666k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORY$8,500
ST MARYS FOOD BANK$6,500
UNITED FIREFIGHTERS CHARITIES$5,000
ASU FOUNDATION$3,000
WASTE NOT$3,000
HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY$2,500
BBBS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA$2,000
FRIENDS OF ARIZONA PBSFPRAZ 915$1,500
FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO$1,500
100 CLUB OF ARIZONA$1,425
BROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORY$1,000
AZ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500
PROJECT CHIMPS$500
NEW PATHWAYS FOR YOUTH-ROCCO PINPAL$500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$500
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 9%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $3k → 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.

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 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
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

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.

3
Arizona Wins

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…

Civil Rights
4
Arizona Grantmakers Forum

To encourage, assist, promote private philanthropy to increase the awareness, appreciation, effectiveness of private philanthropy by providing information, networking opportunities, technical assistance, related services to private…

5
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

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.

6
University of Arizona Foundation

The university of arizona foundation is committed to supporting and enhancing the vision, mission and values of the university of arizona through the development and management of private support.

Education
7
Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health
8
Pro-Choice Arizona

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…

Health
9
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

10
Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

11
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley and the most unlike its peers is Threaded Together. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 17 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORY — $9,500 · OtherBROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORYUNITED FIREFIGHTERS CHARITIES — $5,000 · OtherUNITED FIREFIGHTERS CHARITIESBBBS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA — $2,000 · OtherBBBS OF CENTRAL ARIZONAFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO — $1,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIOFRIENDS OF ARIZONA PBSFPRAZ 915 — $1,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF ARIZONA PBSFPRAZ 915100 CLUB OF ARIZONA — $1,425 · Other100 CLUB OF ARIZONA+1 more — $500 · OtherST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $6,500 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANC…Waste Not Inc — $3,000 · Food & NutritionWaste Not IncARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $3,000 · EducationHospice of the Valley — $2,500 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION — $500 · Human ServicesThreaded Together — $500 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX ART MUSEUM — $250 · Arts & CulturePROJECT CHIMPS — $500 · AnimalsNew Pathways For Youth — $500 · Crime & LegalARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $500 · Philanthropy
Other$21,425Food & Nutrition$9,500Education$3,000Human Services$3,000Arts & Culture$750Animals$500Crime & Legal$500Philanthropy$500

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 budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWaste Not Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of the Valley — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget100 CLUB OF ARIZONA — $1,425 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT CHIMPS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThreaded Together — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM — $250 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.

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 FoundationAZ13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Sb 4 Charitable Fund 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%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 · 0–40%
    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 17 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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