· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $923,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $977,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $54,000 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $457k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $452k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE | $92,000 |
| BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| TELEVERDE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA | $50,000 |
| HUSHABYE NURSERY | $50,000 |
| LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION | $27,000 |
| JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ABILITY360 | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY | $25,000 |
| VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GRAND CANYON TRUST | $25,000 |
| ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
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, $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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k 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
- SSSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC7× · 2017–2023 · $510k · revenue +81%
THE BLOEDEL RESERVE6× · 2017–2022 · $348k · revenue +6%- LFLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $341k · revenue ×14
Funded once
- SSSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAMone grant, 2024 · $100k
- FMFEEDING MATTERS INCone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -49%
- COCITY OF PHOENIXone grant, 2021 · $70k
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.
Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.
Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Place Az and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
101 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. 101 of the 141 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 STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLOEDEL RESERVE ↗
- Who funds LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER COLLEGE PREP ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS OF HUMAN SERVICES LLC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds TUFTS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE THE CITY ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds FEEDING MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HUSTLE USA ↗
- Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds THE TIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOTHER'S GRACE ↗
- Who funds Bainbridge Island Historical Society ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds 33 BUCKETS FOUNDATION ↗
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 · 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
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 Pakis Family 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% 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.
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