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The Surplus Line Association of Arizona 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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $445k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+2 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WSIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $450,000 |
| INSURANCE TRAINING AND EDUCATION CENTER INC | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC | $200,000 |
| ST MARYS FOOD BANK ALLIANCE | $200,000 |
| PAZ DE CRISTO COMMUNITY CENTER | $200,000 |
| KITCHEN ON THE STREET INC | $175,000 |
| WASTE NOT INC | $175,000 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP INC | $150,000 |
| ANDRE HOUSE OF ARIZONA INC | $150,000 |
| HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| YUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $100,000 |
| 100 CLUB OF ARIZONA | $75,000 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP INC | $50,000 |
| HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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, $609k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
54 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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
- WEWSIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +389% · 48% of their budget
- SMST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE9× · 2017–2025 · $835k · revenue +58%
- PDPaz De Cristo Community Center9× · 2017–2025 · $795k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- AEAAMGA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $200k
- DSDesert Survivors Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +35%
- MHMAUI HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +79%
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.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
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.
Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.
To promote and facilitate the development and delivery of affordable and accessible primary healthcare for everyone in arizona through advocacy, education and technical assistance.
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.
The university of arizona foundation is committed to supporting and enhancing the vision, mission and values of the university of arizona through the development and management of private support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ABILITY360 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gila Community Food Bank. 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 38 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 73 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 WSIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSURANCE TRAINING AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Paz De Cristo Community Center ↗
- Who funds Waste Not Inc ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN ON THE STREET INC ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds 100 CLUB OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Autism Society of Greater Phoenix ↗
- Who funds GOMPERS ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA ART ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABILITY360 INC ↗
- Who funds NOTMYKID ↗
- Who funds Hacienda Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMELBACK KIWANIS SERVICE FUND ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds AID TO WOMEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ↗
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 · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · BHHS Legacy Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · American Express Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
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 Surplus Line Association of Arizona 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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