· Private foundation
The Mountain Room Foundation Inc
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k8 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE | $7,500 |
| UAFICA CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $4,000 |
| FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN AZ | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $1,000 |
| KUAZ - NPR | $1,000 |
| MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK | $250 |
| CFSA - VENTANA CANYON MAD | $100 |
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 (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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 — 8 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue +384%- FTFOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +109%
- HSHumane Society of Southern Arizona2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- YOYOUTH ON THEIR OWNgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +138%
- MFMAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250 · revenue +139%
- GSGREEN-HERNANDEZ SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2017 · $250
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.
The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.
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.
Ballet tucson is dedicated to bringing iconic, world-class dance performances and rising star artists to tucson and to sharing explorative experiences that inspire hope and excitement in our community.
To preserve and share the fox theatre
NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…
Phoenix theatre creates exceptional theatrical experiences to articulate messages that inspire hope and understanding.
Arizona opera elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music - cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home.
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
Worcester center for performing arts promotes and/or hosts more than 250 performances and welcomes more than 150,000 attendees each year. the hanover theatre conservatory reaches more than 700 students in theatre, technical theatre and…
Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.
To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.
The Arts Foundation mission is to advance artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture in our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Youth On Their Own. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER ↗
- Who funds FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Make Music New York Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds MAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS 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.
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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 Mountain Room Foundation Inc 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.
- The Weston Playhouse Theater — 0% of income from government
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.