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The Hugh and Barbara Lytle Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$52k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$103kRecreation & Sports$63kCommunity Improvement$25kArts & Culture$20kHuman Services$10kHealth$8kYouth Development$8kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$8,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$920k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$15,000
FRESH START$10,000
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM$10,000
ARIZONA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$8,500
ONE N TEN$2,500
THE TRUE ATHLETE PROJECT$2,500
SILO AUTO CLUB CONSERVANCY$2,500
TGEN FOUNDATION$1,200
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ARIZONA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $9k → 11%THE TRUE ATHLETE PROJECT: $3k → 12%FLASHES FOOTBALL: $15k → 8%SILO AUTO CLUB CONSERVANCY: $3k → 16%FRESH START: $10k → 15%PHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $10k → 11%FLASHES FOOTBALL FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%PHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $10k → 11%ONE N TEN: $5k → 11%AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS: $5k → 11%ONE N TEN: $3k → 11%TGEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%ARIZONA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10k → 11%ARIZONA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $6k → 11%EQUALITY HEALTH: $2k → 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$156k · 4 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$156k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Public Safety & DisasterArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • AH
    ARIZONA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • PA
    PHOENIX ART MUSEUM
    2× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +44%
  • 1I
    1N10 INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • SD
    SUN DEVIL CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • FF
    FLASHES FOOTBALL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • AH
    AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +13%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 13 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUN DEVIL CLUB: $50,000 · OtherSUN DEVIL CLUBARIZONA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $24,600 · OtherARIZONA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRESH START: $10,000 · OtherFRESH START+3 more: $5,700 · Other+3 moreTeen Lifeline Inc: $103,490 · Public Safety & DisasterTeen Lifeline IncPHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $19,925 · Arts & CultureFLASHES FOOTBALL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education1N10 INC: $7,500 · Civil RightsAMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS: $5,000 · HealthTHE TRUE ATHLETE PROJECT: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$105,300Public Safety & Disaster$103,490Arts & Culture$19,925Education$10,000Civil Rights$7,500Health$5,000Recreation & Sports$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTeen Lifeline Inc: $103,490 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetARIZONA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $24,600 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $19,925 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLASHES FOOTBALL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budget1N10 INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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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 Hugh and Barbara Lytle Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hugh and Barbara Lytle Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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