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The Deaver Phoenix Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Deaver Phoenix Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$664kYouth Development$293kInternational$88kHealth$46kScience & Tech$11kRecreation & Sports$6k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWARD COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION$15,000
FLAGLER COLLEGE INC$15,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA$15,000
FLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & BLIND$15,000
TUSCALOOSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
PRETTY BRAINY$10,000
LOVELAND YOUTH GARDENERS$5,000
AVIATION NATION INC$5,000
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LITERACY CONNECTS: $10k → 15%POE MILL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $16k → 10%FLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & BLIND: $43k → 6%BROWARD COUNTY LIBRARY: $33k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $53k → 19%TUSCALOOSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%MTSU FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%MCGAVOCK HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 14%PRETTY BRAINY: $16k → 11%GIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO: $11k → 12%AVIATION NATION: $59k → 12%CARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC: $15k → 11%POE MILL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $15k → 10%FLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & BLIND: $29k → 6%BROWARD COUNTY LIBRARY: $26k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $39k → 19%TUSCALOOSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%MIDDLE TENNESSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 9%PRETTY BRAINY: $19k → 11%COLORADO I HAVE A DREAM: $11k → 12%AVIATION NATION: $21k → 12%POE MILL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $13k → 10%FLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLI: $26k → 6%LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY: $20k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $37k → 19%PRETTY BRAINY: $15k → 11%POE MILL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER IN NC: $8k → 10%FLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $22k → 6%BROWARD COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $14k → 19%PRETTY BRAINY: $10k → 11%POE MILL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER IN NC: $8k → 10%FLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & BLIND: $22k → 6%LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY: $16k → 13%PRETTY BRAINY: $10k → 11%FLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $16k → 6%PRETTY BRAINY: $10k → 11%FLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $15k → 6%NORTHERN COLORADO CHILDRENS SPEECH: $19k → 11%FLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $15k → 6%NORTHERN COLORADO CHILDRENS SPEECH: $11k → 11%FLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & BLIND: $15k → 6%NORTHERN COLORADO CHILDRENS SPEECH: $10k → 11%FLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $15k → 6%EPIC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE: $10k → 6%FLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $10k → 6%FLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $10k → 6%FLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & BLIND: $9k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IN
CO
MD
AZ
TN
SC
AL
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$955k · 16 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
9

Total granted

$955k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+38%

Still filing today

63%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $174k · revenue +75%
  • FC
    FLAGLER COLLEGE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $103k · revenue +42%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $88k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • FS
    FLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLI
    one grant, 2019 · $26k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • MH
    MCGAVOCK HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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
Center for the Future of Arizona

Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.

Community Improvement
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Pinellas County Education Foundation Inc

We accelerate academic achievement for all students through the effective mobilization of innovation, relationships, and resources. (continued on schedule o)our work centers around ensuring every student has access and opportunity to…

Education
4
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
5
Read Alliance Inc

Read alliance, inc (read alliance) works to accelerate the educational trajectory of early elementary students through the power of teens who provide one-to-one literacy tutoring in under-resourced communities. read impacts two populations…

Education
6
Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America

Leadership enterprise for a diverse america (leda) empowers a community of exceptional young leaders from under-resourced backgrounds by supporting their higher education and professional success in order to create a more inclusive and…

Education
7
Public Education & Business Coalition

Every child deserves a great educator. pebc works across the nation to prepare outstanding new teachers, help practicing teachers and leaders become exceptional, and shape systems and policies in order to foster vibrant growth and lasting…

Education
8
Live the Solution Dba Earn to Learn

Earn to learn's mission is "empowering students to achieve their goals and be workforce ready with little to no student debt".

Human Services
9
The Peer Power Foundation Inc

Peer power foundation hires, trains, and deploys college students to be success coaches in economically disadvantaged high schools. (expanded mission on schedule o)these success coaches work primarily inside of english, math, and science…

Education
10
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
11
Education Forward Arizona

To advocate for high-quality education and training that aligns with career and workforce opportunities to advance the quality of life for all arizonans.

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12
Denver Scholarship Foundation

Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Connects; the most unlike its peers is Aviationnation Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 26 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & BLIND: $117,500 · OtherFLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & BLINDBROWARD COUNTY LIBRARY: $59,000 · OtherBROWARD COUNTY LIBRARYNORTHERN COLORADO CHILDRENS SPEECH: $40,343 · OtherNORTHERN COLORADO CHILDRENS SPEECHLIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $36,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INCFLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLI: $26,000 · OtherFLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $20,000 · OtherMCGAVOCK HIGH SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherDAVID A STRAUS JR CENTER FOR: $20,000 · OtherBROWARD COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Other+3 more: $33,000 · Other+3 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $173,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION IN…FLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $103,000 · EducationFLAGLER COLLEGE INCPOE MILL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $60,316 · EducationPOE MILL ACHIEVEMENT CENTERCARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC: $15,000 · EducationMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $19,333 · EducationAviationnation Inc: $90,665 · Youth DevelopmentAviationnation IncPRETTY BRAINY INC: $80,343 · Youth DevelopmentPRETTY BRAINY INCLoveland Youth Gardeners: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentLoveland Youth Gardene…GIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $88,000 · InternationalJUNIOR AC…TUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyEPIC Community Services Inc: $10,000 · Health
Other$386,843Education$386,149Youth Development$217,008International$88,000Philanthropy$20,000Health$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $173,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $103,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAviationnation Inc: $90,665 over 4y, 69% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $88,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPRETTY BRAINY INC: $80,343 over 6y, 51% of budgetPOE MILL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $60,316 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $36,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLoveland Youth Gardeners: $35,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetTUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEPIC Community Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMake Way For Books: $9,333 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FLAGLER COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Aviationnation Inc ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds PRETTY BRAINY INC ↗
  • Who funds POE MILL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Loveland Youth Gardeners ↗
  • Who funds TUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
  • Who funds EPIC Community Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds Make Way For Books ↗

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.

Enterprise Holdings F…Colorado Gives Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Enterprise Holdings FoundationMO12.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Deaver Phoenix Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Deaver Phoenix Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2025, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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