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The Shultz 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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.0MYouth Development$375kHealth$95kInternational$95kArts & Culture$70kHuman Services$65kCivil Rights$20kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,000,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
LIVING STREAMS CHRISTIAN CHURCH$200,000
PHOENIX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$50,000
D2L REVOLUTION INC$50,000
THE LIVING BREATH FOUNDATION$25,000
CALVARY CHAPEL BLACK CANYON CITY$20,000
THE NAVIGATORS$20,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
CHILDHELP$10,000
OAKS INTERNATIONAL$10,000
THE LIVING BREATH FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY21–24, $30k) 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%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA: $20k → 11%CHILDHELP: $10k → 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

MN
IL
NY
OR
CA
CO
AZ
TN
NC
GA
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 10 repeat orgs$650k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

$6.1M
$515k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+69%

Still filing today

10%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    7× · 2018–2024 · $4.8M
  • LS
    LIVING STREAMS CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    3× · 2022–2024 · $350k
  • DR
    D2L REVOLUTION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $345k · revenue -2% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • SL
    SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -82% · 82% of their budget
  • PG
    PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • LP
    LUIS PALAU EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
2
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
3
Child Crisis Arizona

To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.

Crime & Legal
4
City Help Inc of Phoenix

Our mission is to reach in and mine the incredible potential we believe lies within the lives of at-risk youth, the homeless, and needy families of our community by restoring hope and allowing them to dream again.

Human Services
5
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
6
Phoenix Children's Hospital

To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.

Health
7
Hope for the Heart
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8
Christian Heritage Broadcastinginc

Chb's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experience jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where passionate lovers of jesus…

—
9
The Porch Ministries

Our ultimate mission at the porch is clear and simple: to raise up mighty sons of god who will carry the authority of the kingdom of heaven, and make jesus known in the earth. we desire to raise up men of god who will love his truth with…

Religion
10
Free to Worship Ministries

This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.

Religion
11
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
12
Redeemed & Restored

Our mission is simple yet profound, changing lives through christ. we want to help individuals come to christ, being redeemed by his blood and restored and transformed by his word. our goal is to assist individuals struggling with…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Gospel Mission; the most unlike its peers is The Living Breath 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

13 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. 13 of the 29 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $4,850,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLIVING STREAMS CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $350,000 · OtherLIVING STREAMS CHRISTIAN CHURCH+14 more: $650,000 · Other+14 moreSPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES: $250,000 · ReligionPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $100,000 · Religion+1 more: $10,000 · ReligionD2L REVOLUTION INC: $345,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $50,000 · HealthBanner Health Foundation: $10,000 · HealthTHE LIVING BREATH FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $20,000 · Human ServicesWALK & TALK INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORWEGIAN CHRISTIAN HOME FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$5,850,000Religion$360,000Youth Development$350,000Health$60,000Philanthropy$45,000Human Services$40,000Housing & Shelter$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetD2L REVOLUTION INC: $345,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetSPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES: $250,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LIVING BREATH FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALK & TALK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORWEGIAN CHRISTIAN HOME FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELEVATE PHOENIX: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds D2L REVOLUTION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPEAKING LOUDER MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE LIVING BREATH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC ↗
  • Who funds WALK & TALK INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
  • Who funds NORWEGIAN CHRISTIAN HOME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE PHOENIX ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Shultz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shultz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 29 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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