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Shirley C Caris Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$549k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.2MHealth$1.1MHuman Services$1.0MYouth Development$360kMembership Benefit$243kArts & Culture$230kAnimals$160kRecreation & Sports$151kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $380k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BROWNSVILLE WESTERN HERITAGE$15,000
GILA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMP KESEM: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%RVN3 FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 19%RYAN HOUSE: $10k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $10k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
AZ
DC
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 34 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
13

Total granted

$4.7M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+63%

Still filing today

74%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $630k · revenue +91%
  • CC
    CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +151%
  • TO
    TIME OUT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $348k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • GC
    GILA COUNTY COMMUNITY AZ 4H CLUB
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • ST
    SAVE THE FAMILY
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • CK
    Camp Kesem National
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +2%
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
Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc

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.

Public Benefit
2
Arc of Arizona Inc

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,…

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3
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
4
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
5
Marana Health Center Inc

Improving our community by providing exceptional, whole-person healthcare.

Health
6
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.

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7
The Arizona Pet Project

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…

Animals
8
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
9
Encircle Families

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.

Human Services
10
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
11
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

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12
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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; 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.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAYSON UNIFIED SCHOOLS: $829,136 · OtherPAYSON UNIFIED SCHOOLSGRACIE LEE HAUGHT MEMORIAL FUND: $243,000 · OtherGRACIE LEE HAUGHT MEMORIAL FUNDBROWNSVILLE WESTERN HERITAGE INC: $178,000 · OtherBROWNSVILLE WESTERN HERITAGE INCArizona Humane Society: $160,000 · OtherArizona Humane SocietyKITCHEN ON THE STREET INC: $75,000 · Other+26 more: $509,355 · Other+26 moreChildren's Hospital Corporation: $630,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corpo…BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $110,000 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUND…THE BOARD OF VISITORS: $90,000 · HealthTHE BOARD OF VISITORSDUEKER RANCH INC: $73,500 · HealthDUEKER RANCH INCGATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $70,000 · HealthGATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEAR…ARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD: $45,000 · HealthThe Medicine Horse Center: $40,000 · Health+1 more: $22,250 · HealthCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $450,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD CRIS…+2 more: $15,000 · Crime & LegalSUNAGO INC: $350,000 · Youth DevelopmentTIME OUT INC: $348,000 · Housing & ShelterSEDONA CREATIVE LIFE CENTER: $325,800 · Education+1 more: $3,500 · EducationRim Country Arizonans for Children: $156,085 · Recreation & SportsWEST COAST EQUINE FOUNDATION: $92,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $24,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,994,491Health$1,080,750Crime & Legal$465,000Youth Development$350,000Housing & Shelter$348,000Education$329,300Recreation & Sports$273,085

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $630,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $450,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSUNAGO INC: $350,000 over 4y, 49% of budgetTIME OUT INC: $348,000 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetSEDONA CREATIVE LIFE CENTER: $325,800 over 2y, 60% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $160,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRim Country Arizonans for Children: $156,085 over 8y, 78% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWEST COAST EQUINE FOUNDATION: $92,000 over 9y, 33% of budgetTHE BOARD OF VISITORS: $90,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetKITCHEN ON THE STREET INC: $75,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetDUEKER RANCH INC: $73,500 over 8y, 15% of budgetGATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $70,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTonto Rim Search & Rescue SQD: $55,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $54,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD: $45,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetDUET PARTNERS IN HEALTH & AGING INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Medicine Horse Center: $40,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetRVN3 FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetGardens for Humanity Inc: $26,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $24,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRange Of Motion Project: $22,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRYAN HOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $8,655 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Children's Charities: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN EXPLORE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGING TIDES FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRBI AUSTIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 Camp Kesem National ↗
  • Who funds FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds New Pathways For Youth ↗

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Mha Foundation IncAmerican Express Foun…The Steve Mihaylo and…Virginia G Piper Char…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ21.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Shirley C Caris Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shirley C Caris Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to Shirley C Caris Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shirley C Caris 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 50 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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