· Private foundation
The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARSHALL HOME FOR MEN | $3,500 |
| AMPHI FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| PUSCH RIDGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $2,500 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $2,500 |
| TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS | $2,500 |
| COMM HOME REPAIRS PROJECTS OF AZ | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CLINICS FOR REHAB SVCS | $2,000 |
| CARING MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| TMM FAMILY SERVICES INC | $1,000 |
| MOBILE MEALS OF TUCSON INC | $1,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SO AZ | $1,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF TUCSON | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMarshall Home for Men INC9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +42%
- YOYOUTH ON THEIR OWN9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +138%
- ICInterfaith Community Services9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- BGBEACON GROUP INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +6%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBSone grant, 2017 · $1k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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.
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
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.
Our mission is continually to improve the quality of life for the people we serve in collaboration with our diverse communities in a respectful, caring, culturally sensitive manner. The organization provides behavioral health services for…
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 services to the elderly and disabled in the form of congregate and home delivered meals, housekeeping services, in-home nursing care, home health aides, and other services.
Established in 1996, Old Pueblo Community Services has delivered housing and support services for people facing homelessness in Pima County. The organization serves various populations, including families, veterans, youth, individuals with…
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Marshall Home for Men INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds Pima Council on Aging ↗
- Who funds Amphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PUSCH RIDGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Casa Esperanza Para Ninos ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds Our Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Integrative Touch ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds TMM Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CARING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds St Lukes in the Desert Inc ↗
- Who funds TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds HANDI-DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CLINICS FOR REHABILITATIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BEACON GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN OUTREACH PREGNANCY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC ↗
- Who funds The Hermitage No Kill Cat Shelter ↗
- Who funds COCHISE CANINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ANGEL HEART PAJAMA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA DENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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