· Public charity
Sundt Foundation
To provide gifts and grants to organizations qualified for exemption under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code and to provide the employees of the sundt companies, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 80 grants below total $1,432,176 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,184,378 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $752,202 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $233k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $735k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
- $250k+1 grant · $402k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION | $401,869 |
| ST MARY'S FOOD BANK | $62,190 |
| MILITARY ASSISTANCE MISSION | $35,000 |
| PROJECT 48 INC | $33,717 |
| CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER | $30,700 |
| FIND FEED & RESTORE | $30,000 |
| CASA OF EL PASO INC | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE | $30,000 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $30,000 |
| SERVING OUR SENIORS | $28,500 |
| THE FOSTER ALLIANCE | $27,000 |
| ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK | $25,000 |
| KINETIC KIDS INC | $25,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN-SALT LAKE | $25,000 |
| THOMAS HOUSE FAMILY SHELTER | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $709k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $711k 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
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $927k · revenue +1%- SMST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $173k · revenue +31%
- AAASTER AGING INC (FKA EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES INC)5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- ALAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSNgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $39k · revenue +85%
FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INCone grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue +10%- SJSt Joseph the Workerone grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue -47%
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.
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.
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…
To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.
A resource and day-center for seniors, age 55+, providing guidance and support on the PATH back to housing; and CARE supportive services to prevent a return to homelessness.
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Hope House of Sedona provides families experiencing homelessness access to safe haven, support, and tools for lasting stability.
We stabilize people during crisis and transition, build a foundation where people can thrive, and preserve dignity and respect for the most vulnerable.
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
To provide services, support, and education to all who experience the effects of family dysfunction and/or violence, past and present.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf and the most unlike its peers is Marshall Home for Men Inc. 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 27 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
140 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. 140 of the 145 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 MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ASTER AGING INC (FKA EAST VALLEY ADULT RESOURCES INC) ↗
- Who funds THE FOSTER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC ↗
- Who funds St Joseph the Worker ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MILITARY ASSISTANCE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 48 INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE ↗
- Who funds EAST VALLEY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Candlelighters For Children With Cancer ↗
- Who funds BILLY'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CASA OF EL PASO INC ↗
- Who funds Find Feed & Restore Inc ↗
- Who funds MID-CITIES CARE CORPS ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds Kinetic Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY ABUSE ↗
- Who funds ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds MAGGIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW'S CROSSING ↗
- Who funds Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ↗
- Who funds YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix ↗
- Who funds POWER PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND A FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY 31NINE ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE SMALL STEP INC CLOTHES CABIN ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds Marshall Home for Men 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: Thunderbirds Charities · Arizona Community Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Fiesta Events Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund US Bank National Association · Valley of the Sun United Way · Arizona Diamondbacks Foundationinc · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
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 Sundt 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.
- Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
- Project 48 Inc — 23% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- William Temple House — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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