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The Ewing York Foundation at a glance

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The Ewing York 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.

$753k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

61% of The Ewing York Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’21
3
’22
1
’23
2
’24
6
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$988kHealth$154kRecreation & Sports$105kPhilanthropy$56kYouth Development$55kHousing & Shelter$25k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $263k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$45,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$208k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stanford University$400,000
All Saints Episcopal Day School$100,000
United States Golf Assoc Foundation$100,000
University of Pennsylvania$62,500
Saguaros Children's Charities$45,500
Executive Council Charities$15,000
Arizona Women's Board$15,000
Phoenix Children's Foundation$8,000
Honor Health Foundation$5,000
Valley Christian Schools$2,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Cloud Covered Streets: $25k → 11%notMYkid: $50k → 11%NotMyKid: $26k → 11%notMykid: $15k → 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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$352k · 4 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$352k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+5%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AS
    All Saints Episcopal Day School
    3× · 2021–2025 · $175k
  • N
    NOTMYKID
    3× · 2021–2023 · $91k · revenue +94%
  • SC
    SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES
    2× · 2022–2025 · $56k · revenue -40%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLOUD COVERED STREETS
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -15%
  • BH
    Banner Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +42%
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Clubs
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
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
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
2
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
4
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
5
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
6
Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health
7
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Sonoran University of Health Sciences

Sonoran university of health sciences shapes a healthier future by supporting students as they train to excel as healthcare professionals, by enhancing the health and wellbeing of our patients and communities, and by discovering effective…

—
10
Phoenix Children's Hospital

To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.

Health
11
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.

—
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saguaros Childrens Charities; the most unlike its peers is Cloud Covered Streets. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 18 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $285,714 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIATRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $125,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA+1 more: $2,000 · EducationAll Saints Episcopal Day School: $175,000 · OtherAll Saints Episcopal Day …United States Golf Assoc Foundation: $100,000 · OtherUnited States Golf Assoc …Boys and Girls Clubs: $15,000 · Other+2 more: $15,000 · OtherNOTMYKID: $91,450 · Human ServicesNOTMYKIDCLOUD COVERED STREETS: $25,000 · Human ServicesCLOUD COV…Banner Health Foundation: $25,000 · HealthARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD: $15,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $8,000 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthSAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES: $55,500 · PhilanthropyEXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES: $30,000 · Youth Development
Education$812,714Other$305,000Human Services$116,450Health$63,000Philanthropy$55,500Youth Development$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $285,714 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOTMYKID: $91,450 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES: $55,500 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetEXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCLOUD COVERED STREETS: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHope Ignites Phoenix: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $2,000 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.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…American Express Foun…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Ewing York Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ewing York 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
    2report 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 18 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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