· Private foundation
Shirley C Caris 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $380k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAYSON UNIFIED SCHOOLS | $155,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $125,000 |
| ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA | $50,000 |
| TIME OUT INC | $35,000 |
| RVN3 FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| GILA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| BROWNSVILLE WESTERN HERITAGE | $15,000 |
| BOARD OF VISITORS | $10,000 |
| BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DUEKER RANCH INC | $8,000 |
| WEST COAST EQUINE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| ARIZONA WOMENS BOARD | $5,000 |
| KITCHEN ON THE STREET | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $65k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation9× · 2017–2025 · $630k · revenue +69%
- CCCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +151%
- TOTIME OUT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $348k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- GCGILA COUNTY COMMUNITY AZ 4H CLUBone grant, 2017 · $25k
- STSAVE THE FAMILYone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CKCamp Kesem Nationalone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children provides social, emotional, and financial support to families managing the health and well-being of a loved one with pediatric cancer.
Advocates for the rights and participation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. together with our network of members and affiliated chapters, we improve systems of support, connect families, inspire communication,…
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…
Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.
Improving our community by providing exceptional, whole-person healthcare.
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.
The arizona pet project creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection…
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…
Strengthening families and systems of care to improve the lives of children with disabilities. We provide support, training, and assistance so families can be effective advocates for their children.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Changing Tides 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.
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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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. 34 of the 50 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds SUNAGO INC ↗
- Who funds TIME OUT INC ↗
- Who funds SEDONA CREATIVE LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Rim Country Arizonans for Children ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST COAST EQUINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF VISITORS ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN ON THE STREET INC ↗
- Who funds DUEKER RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Tonto Rim Search & Rescue SQD ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD ↗
- Who funds DUET PARTNERS IN HEALTH & AGING INC ↗
- Who funds The Medicine Horse Center ↗
- Who funds RVN3 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gardens for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds Range Of Motion Project ↗
- Who funds RYAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Mha Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · The Steve Mihaylo and Lois Mihaylo Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Shirley C Caris Family 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.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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