· Private foundation
Witthoft Apprill Family 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP | $10,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| THE ROGUE THEATRE | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $10,000 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $8,500 |
| FRIENDS OF PIMA ANIMAL CARE CENTER | $5,000 |
| OXFAM AMERICA | $5,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN AZ | $5,000 |
| TUCSON WILDLIFE CENTER | $5,000 |
| PAWSITIVELY CATS | $5,000 |
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, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +31%- TRThe Rogue Theatre7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +57%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- LLLITTLE LAKES MEMORIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +88%
- HIHAVEN INCone grant, 2022 · $2k
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 save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.
We are dedicated to building a community responsible for pet stewardship and humane treatment of animals.
Rescue Me Tucson provides resources for pets and their people through its compassionate collaborative-based pet adoption model. Rescue Me Tucson opened their Rescue Me Marana pet adoption center in Sept 2021 to help area shelters and…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To reduce the number of homeless pets through adoption, rescue and spay and neuter programs.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
Dedicated to giving every dog a voice and a chance at a brighter, safer future.
To support animals, save lives, and spread compassion.
On average, we find homes for over 100 cats each year through our adoption program. In 2024 we fixed 125 cats with our TNR efforts and were able to provide a dozen microchips to owned pets in the community
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…
Ark-Valley Humane Society's (AVHS) Mission is ensuring the welfare of companion animals through compassion and care. AVHS operated an open-admission animal shelter for Chaffee County, Colorado.
Desert cat rescue & sanctuary of arizona is a no-kill organization dedicated to animal rescue work; adoptions, reducing overpopulation, stopping animal abuse and preventing the neglect of domestic companion animals. we serving the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Best Friends Animal Society and the most unlike its peers is Little Lakes Memories Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 31 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 BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Rogue Theatre ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Live Theatre Workshop ↗
- Who funds Tucson Wildlife Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds TOHONO CHUL PARK INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds PAWSITIVELY CATS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Pima Animal Care Center ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds Arizona Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds GAP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arizona Daily Star Sportsmens Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LAKES MEMORIES INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Deupree Family Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Witthoft Apprill Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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.