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The Kitay Family Foundation at a glance

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The Kitay 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.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$128kArts & Culture$71kFood & Nutrition$54kHuman Services$37kEducation$15kCommunity Improvement$13kPhilanthropy$9kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BANNER HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION$10,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$6,704
SONORAN GLASS ART ACADEMY$6,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$5,000
THE WEST$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,500
TMC FOUNDATION$2,500
NATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION$2,500
MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN AZ$2,500
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES$2,500
MOONCHILD FOUNDATION$1,500
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 (FY21–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%NATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $2k → 15%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$289k · 14 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
21

Total granted

$289k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+23%

Still filing today

57%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsReligionOther
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

  • BH
    Banner Health Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +52%
  • NA
    NATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +14%
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
    4× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • MM
    MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +44%
  • EE
    EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -7%
  • ID
    IMAGO DEI MIDDLE SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +47%
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
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
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
3
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
4
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
5
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
6
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
7
Tmc Health Foundation

The tmc health foundation supports the charitable mission of tucson medical center and is dedicated to improving the health and quality of life in our community.

Health
8
The Dons of Arizona
Education
9
Tmc Healthcare

Our mission is to provide exceptional health care with compassion.

Health
10
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

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

Health
11
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
12
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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block Inc; the most unlike its peers is Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 38 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)
22/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SONORAN GLASS ART ACADEMY: $59,000 · OtherSONORAN GLASS ART ACADEMYMOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN AZ: $18,100 · OtherMOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN AZTHE WEST INC: $12,100 · OtherTHE WEST INCIndividual grant recipient: $10,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTMC FOUNDATION: $6,500 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN AZ: $6,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $6,000 · OtherGoodwill Industries of Southern AZ Inc: $5,000 · Other+14 more: $22,300 · Other+14 moreBanner Health Foundation: $75,000 · HealthBanner Health FoundationBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $20,500 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATIONTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $18,700 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKI…+2 more: $3,000 · HealthCommunity Food Bank Inc: $25,600 · Food & NutritionCommunity F…MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMOBILE MEAL…NATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $22,500 · Human ServicesPima Council on Aging: $1,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationIMAGO DEI MIDDLE SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationTUCSON HEBREW ACADEMY: $750 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,704 · Civil RightsEL GRUPO YOUTH CYCLING: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsTherapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc: $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$145,600Health$117,200Food & Nutrition$35,600Human Services$25,000Education$13,250Civil Rights$6,704Recreation & Sports$4,500

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 budgetBanner Health Foundation: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $25,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $18,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WEST INC: $12,100 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,704 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGO DEI MIDDLE SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Southern AZ Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEL GRUPO YOUTH CYCLING: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON CANCER CONQUERORS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTherapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Diaper Bank: $1,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Tucson Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTUCSON HEBREW ACADEMY: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $500 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.

Community Foundation …The Hs Lopez Family F…Arizona Community Fou…Connie Hillman Family…United Way of Tucson …Fred & Christine Arms…Social Venture Partne…Diamond FoundationDonald Pitt Family Fo…Angel Charity for Chi…The Intuit FoundationThe Chicago Community…
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ32× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Social Venture Partners Tucson · Diamond Foundation · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · Angel Charity for Children Inc · The Intuit Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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 Kitay Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kitay Family 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Kitay Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kitay Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 38 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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