· Private foundation
The Steve Mihaylo and Lois Mihaylo 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of THE STEVE MIHAYLO AND LOIS MIHAYLO FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k87 grants · $216k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $148k
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Midfirst Bank 763006.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA INC | $25,000 |
| TEMPE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $20,500 |
| RYAN HOUSE | $12,500 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $10,000 |
| SWIFT YOUTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SGM BIG BEAR HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE SKATEPARK PROJECT | $10,000 |
| MCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $10,000 |
| MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| NADABURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $7,000 |
| PHOENIX ZOO (ARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION) | $6,350 |
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 (FY17–24, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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 +60% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k 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
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +63%
- TCTempe Community Action Agency Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +80%
- MHMCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- HCHOLY CROSS SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SUSONORAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCESone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +7%
- MEMAYER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTOone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
Improving our community by providing exceptional, whole-person healthcare.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.
Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
Providing quality, affordable supportive housing for persons with behavioral health needs in maricopa county.
Gallup community health's mission is to provide excellent and accessible medical care to our community, regardless of ability to pay.
To improve quality of life through comprehensive, self-empowered, culturally-sensitive healthcare and amazing customer service.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Arizona women's recovery center (awrc) offers treatment and program support to substance abusing women. awrc has an intensive outpatient program, a supportive housing program for families, and a healthy connections program for pregnant…
Behavioral health, long-term support services, mental health therapy, substance, alcohol and drug abuse treatment as well as domestic violence offender intervention services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward and the most unlike its peers is Veteran Alliance Usa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
250 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. 250 of the 377 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Tempe Community Action Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds MCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SKATEPARK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Cancer Support Community Arizona ↗
- Who funds A Stepping Stone Foundation ↗
- Who funds STEP 2 INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds SOLACETREE INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE THE CITY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTERS FOR HABILITATIONTCH ↗
- Who funds SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COWTOWN SKATE ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Hospice Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHASE RAUCHLE PTSD NOW ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL CENTER FOR BORDER HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds RYAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SW ID SW ID DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
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: Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · BHHS Legacy Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Burton Family Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Executive Council Charities
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 Steve Mihaylo and Lois Mihaylo 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.
- Justice for Housing Inc — 22% of income from government
- B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association — 7% of income from government
- Carrfour Supportive Housing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Powell Butte Charter School — 0% 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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