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The Armstrong Family 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.

$407k
Granted FY2019
7
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$166k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Armstrong Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Arizona Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Armstrong Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $402k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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17
13
18
6
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0
20
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21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172021.

Philanthropy$5.7MHuman Services$772kYouth Development$443kEducation$381kCommunity Improvement$287kHealth$65kEnvironment$40kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2019 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $112k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $291k
$26,806
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$165,500
SUPPORT MY CLUB$125,000
SEED SPOT$40,000
BLOOM365$26,806
FEEDING MATTERS INC$25,000
RESILIENTME INC$10,000
STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $1.5M) 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%Support My Club: $258k → 11%SUPPORT MY CLUB: $185k → 11%SUPPORT MY CLUB: $125k → 11%RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $642k → 11%RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $166k → 11%RANCHO FELIZ Supporting FOUNDATION INC: $130k → 11%Hospice of the Valley: $10k → 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 edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 8 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down. Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$1.7M
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
+39%

Still filing today

75%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • RF
    RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $937k · revenue +469% · 53% of their budget
  • BI
    BLOOM365 INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $57k · revenue +130%
  • SS
    STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • VM
    VILLA MONTESSORI INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $90k · revenue +36%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • SA
    SOUNDS ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +400%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Ball Charter Schools (Val Vista)

Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.

Education
2
Accelerated Elementary and Secondary Schools

Operation of a private school

Education
3
Arizona Leads

We facilitate effective, bipartisan partnerships needed to achieve educational excellence and scale success across arizona's public schools - both district and charter.

Education
4
International School of Arizona

Our mission is to provide a progressive international education and advanced multilingual academics in a safe, diverse, and nurturing environment. our innovative and individualized approach to learning prepares highly motivated students…

Education
5
Ball Charter Schools(Dobson)

Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.

Education
6
New Learning Ventures Inc

New learning ventures, inc. is rethinking learning and fostering innovation to positively impact the future of our state. we envision a thriving arizona with a talented and competitive workforce and healthy communities generated from…

Education
7
Ball Charter Schools (Hearn)

Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.

Education
8
Vista Charter Public Schools Inc

At vista, students master core subjects through the power of applying knowledge in a real-world context. in addition to rigorous academics, our schools focus on increased proficiency in crucial areas such as critical thinking, problem…

Education
9
Montessori Academy Inc

Charter school

Education
10
Montessori Day Public Schools Chartered

Montessori based school with the purpose to provide quality education to students in grades kindergarten through 8th. operates as a charter school under a contract with the arizona state board for charter schools.

Education
11
The Paideia Academies Inc

To utilize a family centric model to enlist the support of families in the education and upbringing of the whole child- academic & intellectual, recreational & cultural, character & leadership, emotional, physical & mental health- to…

Education
12
Arizona School Administrators Inc

To promote and support educational excellence in educational leadership

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Step Student Expedition Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Expect More Arizona. 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

18 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. 18 of the 21 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,688,731 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+1 more — $20,000 · PhilanthropyRANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $937,000 · Human ServicesRANCHO FELIZ CHARITABL…SUPPORT MY CLUB — $568,000 · Human ServicesSUPPORT MY CLUB+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesVILLA MONTESSORI INC — $90,000 · EducationSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC — $30,000 · EducationEXPECT MORE ARIZONA — $20,000 · EducationDENVER MONTESSORI SOCIETY — $10,000 · EducationVISTA COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC — $10,000 · EducationSEED SPOT — $135,000 · Community ImprovementTHE SALVATION ARMY — $50,000 · OtherRESILIENTME INC — $40,000 · OtherPHOENIX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC — $15,000 · OtherSOUNDS ACADEMY — $25,000 · OtherTHE TIA FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · OtherCELEBRATE EDU — $10,000 · Other+2 more — $10,000 · OtherBLOOM365 INC — $56,806 · Crime & LegalFEEDING MATTERS INC — $50,000 · Health
Philanthropy$5,708,731Human Services$1,515,000Education$160,000Community Improvement$135,000Other$165,000Crime & Legal$56,806Health$50,000

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 budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,688,731 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetRANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $937,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetSUPPORT MY CLUB — $568,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetSEED SPOT — $135,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetVILLA MONTESSORI INC — $90,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBLOOM365 INC — $56,806 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetFEEDING MATTERS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC — $30,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSOUNDS ACADEMY — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetEXPECT MORE ARIZONA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE TIA FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetPHOENIX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHospice of the Valley — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCELEBRATE EDU — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetVISTA COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 FoundationAZ27.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · The Kiita Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Burton Family Foundation · Ingebritson Family Foundation · The Jack Ingebritson Foundation Inc · The Pakis Family Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 The Armstrong 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Armstrong Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Armstrong 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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