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The Pakis Family 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.

$977k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.9MHealth$1.5MHuman Services$987kEnvironment$663kCommunity Improvement$636kArts & Culture$634kPhilanthropy$602kHousing & Shelter$453kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $923,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $977,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $54,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $457k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $452k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION$100,000
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE$92,000
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION$60,000
TELEVERDE FOUNDATION$50,000
LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION$50,000
MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA$50,000
HUSHABYE NURSERY$50,000
ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION$27,000
HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$25,000
ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION$25,000
GRAND CANYON TRUST$25,000
ABILITY360$25,000
VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
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 (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 10%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $15k → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $100k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $50k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $40k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $25k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $25k → 11%Circle the City: $10k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%ABILITY360: $25k → 11%ABILITY360: $20k → 11%ELAINE: $25k → 11%CHILDHELP INC: $50k → 11%THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT: $63k → 11%THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT: $25k → 11%THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT: $20k → 11%THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT: $5k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $27k → 11%ONE HUNDRED ANGELS: $15k → 11%MOTHER'S GRACE: $25k → 11%MOTHER'S GRACE: $20k → 11%MOTHER'S GRACE: $10k → 11%MOTHER'S GRACE: $10k → 11%HUSHABYE NURSERY: $50k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR LIVING: $50k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $25k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NM
NC
DC
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 49 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
75

Total granted

$6.2M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+9%

Still filing today

84%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SS
    STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $510k · revenue +81%
  • THE BLOEDEL RESERVE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $348k · revenue +6%
  • LF
    LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $341k · revenue ×14

Funded once

  • SS
    STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • FM
    FEEDING MATTERS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -49%
  • CO
    CITY OF PHOENIX
    one grant, 2021 · $70k
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
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.

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2
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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3
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
4
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

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5
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
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

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

Health
8
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
9
Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

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10
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
11
Science Foundation Arizona

Science foundation arizona's mission is to diversify arizona's economy by investing in scientific and engineering research linked to industry needs and investing in education to create a work force with 21st centrury skills.

Philanthropy
12
International School of Arizona

Our mission is to provide a progressive international education and advanced multilingual academics in a safe, diverse, and nurturing environment. our innovative and individualized approach to learning prepares highly motivated students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Place Az; the most unlike its peers is Uss Arizona Legacy Foundation. 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

101 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. 101 of the 141 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/101
Grantees still filing
62/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BLOEDEL RESERVE: $347,500 · OtherTHE BLOEDEL RESERVECAMPUS OF HUMAN SERVICES LLC: $170,000 · OtherTUFTS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $150,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC: $135,000 · OtherRECTOR WARDENS & VESTRYMEN OF ST MATTHEWS PARISH: $133,860 · OtherTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $125,000 · Other+74 more: $2,309,000 · Other+74 moreSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC: $510,000 · EducationSTEP STUDENT EXPEDIT…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $227,625 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVER…EMPOWER COLLEGE PREP: $175,000 · EducationEMPOWER COLLEGE PREPTeach for America Inc: $175,000 · EducationTeach for America In…THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION: $154,000 · EducationTHE FRANK LLOYD WRIG…Trustees of Tufts College: $150,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts Co…University of Arizona Foundation: $85,000 · Education+8 more: $145,500 · Education+8 moreFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $180,000 · Human ServicesFRESH START W…CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $165,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHAR…THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT: $113,000 · Human ServicesTHE WELCOME T…CIRCLE THE CITY: $110,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLE THE CI…SOJOURNER CENTER: $70,000 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER CEN…MOTHER'S GRACE: $65,000 · Human ServicesMOTHER'S GRAC…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesHUSHABYE NURSERY: $50,000 · Human ServicesFSL PROGRAMS: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesABILITY360 INC: $45,000 · Human Services+7 more: $157,000 · Human Services+7 moreVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $388,000 · HealthVALLEYWISE H…BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $210,000 · HealthBARROW NEURO…THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $125,000 · HealthTHE TRANSLAT…FEEDING MATTERS INC: $100,000 · HealthFEEDING MATT…LIGHTHOUSE FOR HOPE INC: $50,000 · HealthHUNKAPI PROGRAMS INC: $40,000 · Health+3 more: $43,500 · HealthLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $340,731 · Community ImprovementLOCAL FIRS…SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $322,000 · Community ImprovementSANDRA DAY…PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC INNOVATION INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementPARTNERSHI…SEED SPOT: $49,500 · Community ImprovementSEED SPOT+2 more: $50,000 · Community Improvement+2 moreARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $472,125 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $150,000 · PhilanthropyCREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $235,000 · Arts & CultureBAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART: $55,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA OPERA COMPANY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureBAINBRIDGE ISLAND PARKS & TRAILS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,370,360Education$1,622,125Human Services$1,105,000Health$956,500Community Improvement$812,231Philanthropy$697,125Arts & Culture$385,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC: $510,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $472,125 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $388,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE BLOEDEL RESERVE: $347,500 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $340,731 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $322,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetPHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $235,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $227,625 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetEMPOWER COLLEGE PREP: $175,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPUS OF HUMAN SERVICES LLC: $170,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $165,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION: $154,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTUFTS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $125,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT: $113,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetCIRCLE THE CITY: $110,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $101,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING MATTERS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetHUSTLE USA: $95,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TIA FOUNDATION INC: $81,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetSOJOURNER CENTER: $70,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMOTHER'S GRACE: $65,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetBainbridge Island Historical Society: $65,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget33 BUCKETS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetBE A LEADER FOUNDATION: $56,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC INNOVATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR HOPE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetFSL PROGRAMS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ONE INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEED SPOT: $49,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetABILITY360 INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Arizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…Thunderbirds CharitiesBHHS Legacy FoundationThe Foundation for Co…The Diane and Bruce H…The Jack Ingebritson …Burton Family Foundat…Garcia Family Foundat…Phoenix Suns Charitie…Valley of the Sun Uni…Ingebritson Family Fo…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ67.9× affinity49 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 · BHHS Legacy Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · The Jack Ingebritson Foundation Inc · Burton Family Foundation · Garcia Family Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Valley of the Sun United Way · Ingebritson Family Foundation

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 Pakis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pakis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Pakis 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 141 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 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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