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The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
6%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,500
Organizations funded a year
14 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$820k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$30k6%
FY202416$30k6%
FY202314$29k0%
FY202218$29k11%
FY202116$25k19%
FY202015$25k20%
FY201917$25k18%
FY201825$23k40%
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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$104kHousing & Shelter$35kEducation$27kHealth$20kYouth Development$15kFood & Nutrition$13kAnimals$12kReligion$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarshall Home for Men INC: $24,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetYouth on Their Own: $20,075 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetInterfaith Community Services: $15,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPima Council on Aging: $14,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc: $13,625 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetPusch Ridge Christian Academy Inc: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Esperanza Para Ninos: $13,050 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Arizona Incorporated: $11,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMobile Meals of Southern Arizona Inc: $11,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetOur Family Services Inc: $9,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIntegrative Touch: $7,650 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHumane Society of Southern Arizona: $6,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTMM Family Services Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCaring Ministries Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Housing Resources Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Lukes in the Desert Inc: $3,950 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTucson Botanical Gardens: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHandi-Dogs Inc: $2,375 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeacon Group Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeen Outreach Pregnancy Services: $1,975 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProject Orbis International Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Tucson Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hermitage No Kill Cat Shelter: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAngel Heart Pajama Project: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetArizona Dental Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Sun Corridor Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTherapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ49.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Elizabeth Read Taylor Foundation · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Haugh Foundation · The Kai Family Foundation · Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation · Nicholas W Genematas II Foundation

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.

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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.

About The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation

How much does The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation give?
The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Housing & Shelter (15%), Education (11%).
Who are The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Marshall Home for Men INC ($24k), Youth on Their Own ($20k), Interfaith Community Services ($16k).
Does The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, The Hs Lopez Family Foundation, Arizona Community Foundation.
Where is The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation based?
The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation is based in AZ.

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 43 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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