· Private foundation
The Virginia M Ullman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHOENIX ART MUSEUM | $150,000 |
| DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN | $75,000 |
| PHOENIX ZOO | $75,000 |
| ASU FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| HEARD MUSEUM | $75,000 |
| SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| PHOENIX SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| BALLET ARIZONA | $25,000 |
| THERAPEUTIC HARP FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 4 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PAPHOENIX ART MUSEUM6× · 2019–2024 · $465k · revenue +44%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $385k · revenue +84%- THTHE HEARD MUSEUM6× · 2019–2024 · $385k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- SASCOTTSDALE ARTS SMOCAone grant, 2023 · $25k
- AHArizona Humane Societyone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +16%
- SASCOTTSDALE ARTSone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +19%
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.
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.
Arizona opera elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music - cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home.
ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The arizona center for nature conservation advances the stewardship and conservation of animals and their habitats while providing experiences that inspire people and motivate them to care for the natural world.
The tucson museum of art and historic block connects art to life through meaningful and engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.
The children's museum of phoenix mission is to engage the minds, muscles, and imaginations of children and the grown-ups who care about them. with a focus on early childhood education and development for children birth to ten years, the…
We are arizona's center stage, engaging the community through diverse experiences that ignite emotion, stimulate conversation, and inspire connections with the arts.
The foundation's mission is to create unlimited horizons in aerospace education through the preservation and presentation of the history of flight. both the pima air & space museum and the titan missile museum have strong commitments to…
Our mission is to enhance the welfare of the phoenix metro community by promoting excellence in architecture and the built environment by supporting the education of future architects, supporting and promoting the profession of…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds BALLET ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Therapeutic Harp Foundation ↗
- Who funds Jordan Sterling Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Liberty Wildlife Inc ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL LEAGUE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Papp Family Foundation · The Rob Walton Foundation · The Ottosen Family Foundation · L Roy Papp Charitable Trust · Robert H McKee and Mary Ellen McKee Charitable Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Arizona Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Virginia M Ullman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Virginia M Ullman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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