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Shatz Family Foundation at a glance

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Shatz Family 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.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$102kEducation$67kScience & Tech$10kHealth$8kFood & Nutrition$6kEnvironment$6kEmployment$5kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DESERT SURVIVORS$10,500
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE$10,000
SHARED ADVENTURES$6,500
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$6,000
NATIVE SEEDSSEARCH$5,500
BEN'S BELLS$5,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
TUSCON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$5,000
MAZON A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER$5,000
FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ART$5,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$4,000
FRIENDS OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS$3,000
ARIZONA SONORA DESERT MUSEUM$1,500
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TUSCON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 15%TUSCON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$251k · 12 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$251k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+29%

Still filing today

75%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
HealthEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesEmploymentAnimalsOther
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

  • MA
    MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +11%
  • NS
    NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED
    3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +51%
  • AD
    ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • IT
    INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • KN
    KOZOLCHYK NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
3
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
The Jmt Wilderness Conservancy

Working to restore the watersheds, wilderness, and wildlife in the high sierra nevada following the john muir trail (est. 1915) for all life in california.

Environment
10
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education
11
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
12
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Inc; the most unlike its peers is Locks of Love 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 26 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
6/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ART: $106,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $66,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONANATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK SERVICEINNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10,000 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $10,000 · Other+9 more: $29,750 · Other+9 moreBEN'S BELLS INC: $8,750 · HealthFriends of Children with Special Needs: $8,000 · HealthLOCKS OF LOVE INC: $1,000 · HealthTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSHARED ADVENTURES: $6,500 · Human ServicesDesert Survivors Inc: $15,750 · EmploymentNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED: $6,250 · EnvironmentWatershed Management Group Inc: $1,500 · EnvironmentWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $5,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $500 · EducationSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $4,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$236,750Health$17,750Human Services$16,500Employment$15,750Environment$7,750Education$6,500Recreation & Sports$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDesert Survivors Inc: $15,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEN'S BELLS INC: $8,750 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of Children with Special Needs: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARED ADVENTURES: $6,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED: $6,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWatershed Management Group Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTucson Wildlife Center Inc: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCKS OF LOVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREGORY SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 …The Intuit FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Baird Foundation IncArizona Community Fou…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Intuit Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Shatz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shatz Family 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Shatz Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Shatz Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 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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