· Private foundation
William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund US Bank National Association
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHOENIX YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST | $10,000 |
| PHOENIX SYMPHONY GUILD | $10,000 |
| PARADISE VALLEY EMERGENCY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF AZ | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE | $5,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $5,000 |
| SOUNDS ACADEMY | $4,000 |
| UPWARD FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | $4,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX | $4,000 |
| ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN | $4,000 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $4,000 |
| ACADEMY FOR CHILDREN INC | $4,000 |
| LITERACY CONNECTS | $4,000 |
| DUET PARTNERS IN HEALTH & AGING | $4,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
60 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 6 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- PYPHOENIX YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2019–2024 · $174k · revenue +123%
- SMSCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC5× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +91%
- DDDelivering Dreams of Arizona6× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +242%
Funded once
- ACABOUT CARE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -60%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -9%
- NNOTMYKIDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +249%
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.
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.
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.
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
Arizona youth partnership, (azyp), empowers youth to harness their strengths to live healthy and purposeful lives.
The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.
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…
Our mission is continually to improve the quality of life for the people we serve in collaboration with our diverse communities in a respectful, caring, culturally sensitive manner. The organization provides behavioral health services for…
To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.
To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals of Joy. 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 36 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 98 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 PHOENIX YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds UPWARD FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Delivering Dreams of Arizona ↗
- Who funds DUET PARTNERS IN HEALTH & AGING INC ↗
- Who funds Our Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW ACRES ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WHAM ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY BLOOM ↗
- Who funds SOUNDS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY TREE ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds GABRIELS ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds RYAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds BALLET ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds BLACK THEATRE TROUPE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix ↗
- Who funds DESERT SOUNDS PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HILLS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Arizona Association for Foster and Adoptive Parents ↗
- Who funds Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER PARADISE VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds MILITARY ASSISTANCE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO RIVER REGIONAL CRISIS SERVICES ↗
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 · John F Long Foundation Inc · Fiesta Events Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Sundt Foundation
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 William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund US Bank National Association 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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