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The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn

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.

$11M
Granted FY2023
94
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$762k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$7.7MHealth$4.5MEducation$3.9MHuman Services$2.3MHousing & Shelter$2.3MArts & Culture$1.8MFood & Nutrition$1.6MEnvironment$1.2MOther$0
02FY2023 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 94 grants below total $8,595,313 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,963,174 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,367,861 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $909k
  • $50k–250k36 grants · $3.0M
  • $250k+11 grants · $4.6M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$250M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
City of Phoenix Finance Department Payment Center$762,000
University Of Arizona Foundation$690,000
Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association$500,000
Rosies House A Music Academy For Children Inc$500,000
Umom New Day Centers Inc$420,000
Central Arizona Shelter Services Inc$420,000
Northern Arizona University Fdn Inc$300,000
Honorhealth Foundation$272,000
Arizona Agricultural Education/FFA Foundation$250,000
Honorhealth Foundation$250,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities Of Central and Northern Arizona$250,000
Diocesan Council For The Society Of St Vincent De Paul Diocese Phoenix$200,000
Maggies Place Inc.$200,000
Valleywise Health Foundation$175,000
Dignity Health Foundation - East Valley$175,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Arizona Community Foundation: $7.0M → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 60 repeat orgs$6.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2023, 20 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
25

Total granted

$14M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+29%

Still filing today

85%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • University of Arizona Foundation
    3× · 2020–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +54%
  • BN
    BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +54%
  • TA
    THE ARIZONA AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FFA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $750k · revenue +79% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • GA
    GREATHEARTS ARIZONAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $900k · revenue +38%
  • TT
    THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -52%
  • BH
    Banner Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +99%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Arizona Wins

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…

Civil Rights
3
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

—
4
Arizona Theatre Company

ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.

Arts & Culture
5
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

—
6
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health
7
Home Matters to Arizona

Home matters to arizona is the first statewide home matters initiative focused on a new generation of affordable housing, connected communities, and healthier individuals, families, and economies. we add housing units while encouraging…

Housing & Shelter
8
Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health
9
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
10
The Dons of Arizona
Education
11
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

—
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Place Az and the most unlike its peers is A T Still University of Health Sciences. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#15#14#19#7#16#13#9#17#12#6#22#21#20#1#2
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%2%<5yr17%1%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr10%37%35–55yr10%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%1%<5yr17%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr14%16%20–35yr10%54%35–55yr10%26%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/115
the rest of the field
17%
2,923/16,938

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

112 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. 112 of the 132 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/112
Grantees still filing
85/112
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,292,500 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONNature Conservancy-Arizona Chapter — $790,000 · OtherNature Conservancy-Arizona Ch…City of Phoenix Finance Department Payment Center — $762,000 · OtherCity of Phoenix Finance Depar…THE ARIZONA AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FFA FOUNDATION — $750,000 · OtherTHE ARIZONA AGRICULTURAL EDUC…Grand Canyon Conservancy (Association) — $450,000 · OtherGrand Canyon Conservancy (Ass…Devereux Foundation-Arizona — $415,000 · OtherDevereux Foundation-ArizonaST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $250,000 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST — $250,000 · Other+54 more — $3,754,313 · Other+54 moreHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,119,000 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUN…BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $1,006,565 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGI…THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $500,000 · HealthTHE TRANSLATIONA…DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY — $325,000 · HealthDIGNITY HEALTH F…Banner Health Foundation — $250,000 · HealthBanner Health Fo…VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $250,000 · HealthVALLEYWISE HEALT…FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN — $160,000 · Health+9 more — $497,500 · Health+9 moreUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $2,262,521 · EducationUniversity of A…GREATHEARTS ARIZONA — $900,000 · EducationGREATHEARTS ARI…NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZON…+7 more — $299,000 · Education+7 moreCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC — $570,000 · Housing & ShelterRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc — $530,000 · Housing & ShelterUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $520,000 · Housing & ShelterFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC — $142,500 · Housing & ShelterSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA — $115,000 · Housing & Shelter+4 more — $125,000 · Housing & ShelterValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association — $600,000 · Human ServicesArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation — $340,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA — $275,000 · Human ServicesMAGGIE'S PLACE INC — $225,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Human Services+11 more — $372,500 · Human ServicesSHARLOT HALL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AZ — $300,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX — $200,000 · Arts & CultureGILBERT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM — $100,000 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA OPERA COMPANY — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Northern Arizona Inc — $100,000 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX ART MUSEUM — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSCOTTSDALE ARTS — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $295,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$7,292,500Other$7,421,313Health$4,108,065Education$3,761,521Housing & Shelter$2,002,500Human Services$1,962,500Arts & Culture$1,595,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,292,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $2,262,521 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,119,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $1,006,565 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGREATHEARTS ARIZONA — $900,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE ARIZONA AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FFA FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association — $600,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC — $570,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc — $530,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $520,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation — $340,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY — $325,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSHARLOT HALL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AZ — $300,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA — $275,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetBanner Health Foundation — $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST — $250,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $240,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK — $230,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE INC — $225,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX — $200,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetARIZONA NATIONAL LIVESTOCK SHOW INC — $185,553 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN — $160,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUnited Food Bank — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC — $142,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUPWARD FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $130,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGILBERT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $125,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetA NEW LEAF — $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA — $115,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER — $112,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetARIZONA OPERA COMPANY — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA — $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMuseum of Northern Arizona Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA — $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWickenburg Community Hospital Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY — $95,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budget
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.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…Thunderbirds CharitiesJohn F Long Foundatio…BHHS Legacy FoundationThe Foundation for Co…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…The Diane and Bruce H…Burton Family Foundat…William & Ruth Pendle…American Express Foun…Margaret T Morris Fou…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ99.4× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · John F Long Foundation Inc · BHHS Legacy Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund US Bank National Association · American Express Foundation · Margaret T Morris 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 Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $14M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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