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The Russell D Garrett Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONNECTING HIGHER OPPORTUNITIES IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS | $10,000 |
| LOS CHARROS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
University of Arizona Foundation6× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +109%- EREL RIO FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $63k · revenue +51%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CFCommunity Food Bank Incone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue -18%
- CFCATHOLIC FOUNDATION FOR THE DIOCESE OF TUCSONone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SASALVATION ARMY AMPHI CORPSone grant, 2024 · $6k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easterseals Blake Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ohkomi Forensics Ohkomi Forensics. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 28 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 INDIAN NATIONAL FINALS RODEO ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS CHARROS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds TUCSON RODEO PARADE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds TUCSON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Sister Jose Women's Center ↗
- Who funds OHKOMI FORENSICS OHKOMI FORENSICS ↗
- Who funds Angel Charity for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tucson Interfaith HIVAIDS Network ↗
- Who funds TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Zuckerman Family Foundation · The Roy H Rogers Foundation Trust · Ashton Family Foundation · Ginny L Clements Charitable Trust · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle 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 Russell D Garrett 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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