· Public charity
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.
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- $10k–50k5 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $291k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–19, $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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RFRANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $937k · revenue +469% · 53% of their budget
- BIBLOOM365 INC2× · 2018–2019 · $57k · revenue +130%
- SSSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- VMVILLA MONTESSORI INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $90k · revenue +36%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2018 · $50k
- SASOUNDS ACADEMYgraduatedone 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.
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 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.
Operation of a private school
We facilitate effective, bipartisan partnerships needed to achieve educational excellence and scale success across arizona's public schools - both district and charter.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
Charter school
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.
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…
To promote and support educational excellence in educational leadership
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT MY CLUB ↗
- Who funds SEED SPOT ↗
- Who funds VILLA MONTESSORI INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOM365 INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EXPECT MORE ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE TIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER MONTESSORI SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATE EDU ↗
- Who funds VISTA COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC ↗
- Who funds BRINK LITERACY PROJECT ↗
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 · 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.
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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