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The Finley Family 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA | $30,000 |
| SANDERLING WALDORF SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| SCRIPPS HOWARD FUND | $10,000 |
| TUCSON CLEAN & BEAUTIFUL | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- AOAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC3× · 2022–2025 · $76k · revenue +156%
- WAWILD ARIZONA5× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +481%
- HFHonnold Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $47k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- TCTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +56%
- BTBOYS TO MENone grant, 2017 · $17k
- EREL RIO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2017 · $16k
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.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
Working to transform the region's economy through entrepreneurship and innovation.
Our mission is to lead, serve, empower and advocate for the Tucson urban American Indian community and others by providing culturally appropriate health, wellness and social services.
CORAZÓN-AZ's mission is to cultivate and foster a welcoming and safe community of Arizonans from vast faith traditions and beliefs, schools, and allied organizations; united in expanding our democracy, economic dignity, immigrant justice,…
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
AriSEIAs mission is to develop and support policies that create opportunities to advance Arizonas economy through solar energy and storage. AriSEIA advocates for sustainable job creation in deployment of solar and complementary…
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
To curate diverse and impactful experienes that cultivate community engagement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth On Their Own. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds WILD ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Honnold Foundation ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER RISING ↗
- Who funds THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC ↗
- Who funds Scripps Howard Fund ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CLEAN & BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Finley Family 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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