· Private foundation
You Got This 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
59% of You Got This Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Southern Arizona, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year You Got This Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 24 organizations, $41k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $7,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $6,000 |
| ROSE PETAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION OR CHADESH | $3,500 |
| VISION CHURCH | $3,500 |
| IZI AZI FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $2,518 |
| NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| TUCSON CANCER CONQUERORS | $1,000 |
| IRONWOOD TREE EXPERIENCE | $1,000 |
| ARIZONA ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC | $500 |
| CASA DE LOS NINOS INC | $500 |
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 (FY18–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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 8% of You Got This 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +115% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- FFFELICIA'S FARM FKA IZI AZI FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +30%
- AFARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR CANCER5× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +549%
- TCTUCSON CANCER CONQUERORS INC6× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- MAMAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k
- TPThe Primavera Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +47%
- BCBLAIR CHARITY GROUPone grant, 2018 · $300
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.
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children provides social, emotional, and financial support to families managing the health and well-being of a loved one with pediatric cancer.
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.
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
To inspire tomorrow's leaders by providing scholarships that support and empower students giving back to their communities.
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…
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Los Ninos and the most unlike its peers is Beyond a Mentor. 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 23 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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 46 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds FELICIA'S FARM FKA IZI AZI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR CANCER ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CANCER CONQUERORS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds THE FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tucson Conquistadores Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds WINERS & DINERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA DE LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds Angel Charity for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Bag It ↗
- Who funds TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Beyond A Mentor ↗
- Who funds Casas Adobes Rotary Club Foundation ↗
- Who funds GABRIELS ANGELS 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 · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Ashton Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Roy H Rogers Foundation Trust · Lapan Memorial Sunshine Foundation Inc · AWH FOUNDATION co ROBERT W GILLETT · Ginny L Clements Charitable Trust · Frederick Gardner Cottrell 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 You Got This 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.