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The Molly Lawson 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.
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.
The 5 grants below total $48,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $58,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TREASURE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| HORSES WITH HEART INC | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $10,000 |
| EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA RECREATION CENTER FOR THE HANDICAPPED | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- THTREASURE HOUSE5× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +112%
- VVALLEYLIFE4× · 2018–2024 · $31k · revenue +9%
- STSCOTTSDALE TRAINING & REHABILITATION SERVICES INC3× · 2017–2019 · $19k · revenue +26%
Funded once
University of Arizona Foundationone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +20%- HHHORSES HELP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -36%
- NANORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +337%
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.
Advocates for the rights and participation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. together with our network of members and affiliated chapters, we improve systems of support, connect families, inspire communication,…
To enable individuals who have developmental and/or physical disabilities to have the opportunity to attain their highest level of skills, purpose and independence.
Finding creative and innovative ways to provide hope and purpose for individuals with disabilities.
Arizona Statewide Independent Living Council, AZSILC is one of 56 Statewide Independent Living Councils, SILCs which are federally mandated under the Rehabilitation Act. There is one SILC in each state and US territory. AZSILC members are…
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Provide educational employment related day services, residential and home and community based services and support to members with developmental disabilities.
Ads is a day treatment program designed to aid in personal empowerment and career training for young adults with cognitive disabilities. our mission is to transition young adults with disabilities to independent living and community…
Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.
Our mission is to empower people with disabilities and their families to grow, develop, and thrive by providing essential skill-building, therapeutic, and recreational programs.
To provide employment and alternative service programs for developmentally disabled adults in the portland metro area.
Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…
We are dedicated to celebrating the lives of individuals on the autism spectrum through learning, support, and solutions. we achieve this by building innovative, individualized programs and cultivating meaningful, impactful relationships…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Recreation Center for the Handicapped and the most unlike its peers is Detour Company Theater Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 14 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 LuMind IDSC Foundation ↗
- Who funds TREASURE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VALLEYLIFE ↗
- Who funds DETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE TRAINING & REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Arizona Recreation Center for the Handicapped ↗
- Who funds HORSES HELP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HORSES WITH HEART INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIVITAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Ckko Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · Fiesta Events Inc · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Molly Lawson 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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