· Private foundation
The Eliot Spalding Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Eliot Spalding Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For Southern Arizona, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Eliot Spalding Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $174k. 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA FAMILY PROGRAM UNIT | $10,000 |
| OUR FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN AZ LEGAL AID | $10,000 |
| ANGEL CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC | $10,000 |
| FIRST FOCUS ON KIDS | $10,000 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $9,000 |
| MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS | $8,000 |
| AZ JUSTICE PROJECT | $7,500 |
| MISSION OF MERCY ARIZONA | $7,000 |
| LITERACY CONNECTS | $6,500 |
| LIBRARIES LIMITED | $6,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $6,000 |
| STEP UP FOR JUSTICE | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
35 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down. Read against FY2024, 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 FY2024, 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
- OFOur Family Services Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +28%
- PCPima Council on Aging8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +4%
- YOYOUTH ON THEIR OWN8× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- DCDIRECT CAREGIVER ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- WNWESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +84%
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.
Goodwill Industries of Southern Arizona works toward ensuring that all people have the opportunity to reach their potential and contribute to our community. Through quality, evidence-based, workforce development programs; Goodwill…
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
We drive economic and political empowerment.
To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.
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…
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.
The Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona (CareAz) is a community-based organization dedicated to reducing the harmful effects of substance use disorder through comprehensive prevention, treatment, recovery, and reentry support.…
To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.
AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.
Our holistic approach prepares and embraces individuals to age independently, safely and with peace of mind.
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Community Services and the most unlike its peers is Make Way for Books. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 38 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Our Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Pima Council on Aging ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds Make Way For Books ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Dancing in the Streets Arizona ↗
- Who funds St Lukes in the Desert Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CAREGIVER TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Step Up To Justice ↗
- Who funds GODS VAST RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN CENTERS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ERIK HITE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Marshall Foundation · The David and Lura Lovell · Lucille E Williams Foundation · Zuckerman Community Outreach Foundation · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Donald Pitt Family Foundation
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 Eliot Spalding 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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