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Twiford 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k25 grants · $467k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $321k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PHOENIX ZOO | $61,000 |
| CHILDREN FIRST FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| JEWISH FREE LOAN | $50,000 |
| MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $50,000 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ROSIE'S HOUSE | $35,000 |
| DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN | $25,000 |
| PHOENIX SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| SOUTHWEST INDIAN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PHOENIX PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BALLET ARIZONA | $25,000 |
| EXIT 12 DANCE COMPANY | $25,000 |
| AUDOBON SW OF NATIONAL AUDUBON | $25,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Twiford 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.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 23 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $527k 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
- MSMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC6× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +44%
- MEMADISON EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +10% · 25% of their budget
- BHBanner Health Foundation4× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- MEMADISON EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- UHUCLA HERB ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSICone grant, 2020 · $15k
- VPVERITAS PREPARATORY ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +26%
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.
The organization is committed to unleashing the power of music by providing high-quality music education and experiences that are affordable and accessible. its vision is to be a leader in music education with a focus on creative youth…
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.
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.
Phoenix theatre creates exceptional theatrical experiences to articulate messages that inspire hope and understanding.
Phoenix art museum creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. this mission is supported by seven strategic pillars:(continued on schedule o)1. be a space…
The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.
Our mission is to provide a progressive international education and advanced multilingual academics in a safe, diverse, and nurturing environment. our innovative and individualized approach to learning prepares highly motivated students…
To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.
To cultivate, inspire, and empower young women to find their voice through world-class music education and performance.
We are arizona's center stage, engaging the community through diverse experiences that ignite emotion, stimulate conversation, and inspire connections with the arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Symphony Association and the most unlike its peers is Rosies House a Music Academy for Children 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 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ACT ONE ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BALLET ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXIT 12 DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX CHILDRENS CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds GABRIELS ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds Musica Nova Inc ↗
- Who funds FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX INDIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IMPRINTS OF HONOR ↗
- Who funds Xico Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ARTS ARIZONA LTD ↗
- Who funds VERITAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
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: Thunderbirds Charities · Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · American Express Foundation · William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund US Bank National Association · The Ottosen Family Foundation · Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust
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 Twiford 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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