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The Roy and Toni Bliss Family Foundation at a glance

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The Roy and Toni Bliss Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$100kEducation$28kPublic Benefit$12kArts & Culture$8kRecreation & Sports$5kCivil Rights$4kEnvironment$3kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$77k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$15,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
ST FRANCIS TULSA TOUGH$3,000
TULSA BOTANICAL GARDEN$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RYAN HOUSE: $2k → 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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95k · 7 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$95k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
-5%

Still filing today

86%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +13%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +93%
  • BG
    BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    3× · 2021–2023 · $12k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • BK
    BISHOP KELLEY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • IN
    INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BSA
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • PA
    PHOENIX ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -5%
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
The Dons of Arizona
Education
2
American Association for Respiratory Care

Aarc's mission is to be the foremost professional association promoting respiratory therapists. the aarc advances professional excellence and science in the practice of repiratory therapy, serving the professional, patients, caregivers and…

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3
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
4
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Advance pharmacy education, research, scholarship, practice and service, in partnership with members and stakeholders, to improve health for all.

Health
5
American Gastroenterological Association Inc

The purpose of american gastroenterological association, inc. is to promote the common business interests of its members by promoting the image of the industry as a whole; to serve as a central, unified voice for the specialty of…

Community Improvement
6
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
7
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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8
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
9
Arizona State University Alumni Association

To advance arizona state university by enriching the lives of alumni, students and friends and fostering their lifelong connections all while continuing to provide services and programs to alumni.

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10
University of Minnesota Alumni Association

The university of minnesota alumni association (umaa) fosters a lifelong spirit of belonging and pride by connecting alumni, students, and friends to the university of minnesota and each other. the alumni association advocates for the…

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11
Arizona Masonry Council

The council is organized and operates exclusively to promote the interests of the concrete masonry industry in arizona. the council intends to further these interests by engaging in a number of activities which may include, but are not…

Community Improvement
12
American Association of Medical Society Executives

American association of medical society executives (aamse) is committed to educating and supporting medical society professionals to advance the profession of medical society management, medical societies, and the physicians they serve.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University; the most unlike its peers is Tulsa ToughInc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $51,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $46,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCTulsa ToughInc: $4,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $22,500 · EducationARIZONA STATE U…BISHOP KELLEY SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherBISHOP KEL…INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BSA: $3,750 · OtherINDIAN NAT…TULSA BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2,700 · OtherTULSA BOTA…INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2,000 · OtherINDIAN NAT…TULSA TOUGH SAINT FRANCIS: $1,000 · OtherTULSA TOUG…+3 more: $1,100 · Other+3 moreBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $12,000 · Public BenefitARIZONA MUSICFEST INC: $6,000 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & CultureRYAN HOUSE: $2,000 · Human Services
Health$101,100Education$22,500Other$15,550Public Benefit$12,000Arts & Culture$8,000Human Services$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC: $51,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $46,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA MUSICFEST INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTulsa ToughInc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRYAN HOUSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 17 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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