· Private foundation
The Lisa Frank 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $27,000 |
| SHE READY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CRANBROOK SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| GIRLS SCOUTS | $4,000 |
| MUSUEM OF CONTEMPORY ART | $3,500 |
| TU NIDITO | $1,300 |
| BENS BELLS | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY | $100 |
| THE LOFT | $90 |
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 (FY23–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- SRSHE READY FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +14%
- TNTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +33%
- BBBEN'S BELLS INC4× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- SPSTEP PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · $1k
- TMTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +13%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $145
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.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Tucson botanical gardens connects people with plants and nature through art, science, history and culture.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Our vision is a community where every child receives a high-quality education from birth to career, every adult has the opportunity to thrive financailly and in the workplace, and every older person can retire and age with dignity and…
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
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.
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…
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
Ymca of southern arizona is dedicated to improving the quality of human life and helping all people realize their fullest potential through the development of spirit, mind and body. we are a powerful association of men, women and children,…
The mission of the tucson family food project is to provide meals for children who are struggling with food insecurity, while teaching them how to cook food for themselves in their own homes.
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Los Ninos and the most unlike its peers is World Wildlife Fund Inc. 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 22 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 SHE READY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BEN'S BELLS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA DE LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Tucson Girls Chorus Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds LOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND 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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Ralph L Smith Foundation 13952400 · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Lisa Frank 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.