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The Binns Family Foundation at a glance

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The Binns 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.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$380kEducation$196kCommunity Improvement$159kHealth$112kEnvironment$80kArts & Culture$6k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY$100,000
CITY OF HOPE$50,000
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $116k → 8%JESSIE REES FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CITY OF HOPE: $100k → 14%TEACH FOR AMERICA INC: $5k → 17%ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $1k → 14%CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $15k → 11%CITY OF HOPE: $50k → 14%BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $115k → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $100k → 11%THE WOMEN'S BOARD OF THE BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF ARIZONA PBS: $1k → 11%DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN: $75k → 11%DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN: $4k → 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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$589k · 6 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$589k
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-23%
+21%

Still filing today

50%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • CO
    CITY OF LANCASTER
    2× · 2020–2022 · $159k
  • CO
    CITY OF HOPE
    2× · 2023–2025 · $150k
  • VO
    VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY
    2× · 2022–2025 · $115k · revenue -8%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • TW
    THE WOMEN'S BOARD OF THE BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • Teach for America Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +20%
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
University of Arizona Foundation

The university of arizona foundation is committed to supporting and enhancing the vision, mission and values of the university of arizona through the development and management of private support.

Education
2
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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3
Lodestar Charitable 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. remains a qualified organization.

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4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
9
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
10
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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11
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
12
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Jessie Rees 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF LANCASTER: $158,871 · OtherCITY OF LANCASTERCITY OF HOPE: $150,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMTHE WOMEN'S BOARD OF THE BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $2,000 · OtherARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $115,000 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO…VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $115,000 · PhilanthropyVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WA…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $116,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF T…Teach for America Inc: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthBARROW NEU…Jessie Rees Foundation: $5,000 · HealthJessie Ree…DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $78,500 · EnvironmentDESERT BO…+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$405,871Philanthropy$230,000Education$122,000Health$90,000Environment$79,500Arts & Culture$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $116,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $115,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $78,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Binns Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Binns Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    3report 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, 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.

    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 15 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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