· Community foundation
Arizona Community Foundation
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
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.
The 1,174 grants below total $92,892,818 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $100,478,934 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,586,116 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k246 grants · $1.8M
- $10k–50k655 grants · $13M
- $50k–250k230 grants · $21M
- $250k+43 grants · $56M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNTAIN VIEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $7,952,021 |
| PHOENIX ART MUSEUM | $7,914,420 |
| PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $3,507,500 |
| THE HEARD MUSEUM | $3,064,045 |
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $3,000,000 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,529,270 |
| ARIZONA GOLF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500,000 |
| DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN | $2,110,398 |
| BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $2,064,250 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $2,050,100 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $2,000,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $1,728,959 |
| THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION | $1,200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $1,142,507 |
| PHOENIX THEATRE INC | $1,066,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $28.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Arizona Community 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 +34% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
1483 repeat relationships — 837 still active in FY2025, 646 since wound down; 86 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M 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
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +196%- PAPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC4× · 2019–2023 · $13M · revenue +30% · 39% of their budget
- AGARIZONA GOLF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2025 · $11M · revenue +250% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INCone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +8%- FOFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INCone grant, 2024 · $1.7M · revenue -66%
- UTUSA Triathlon Foundationone grant, 2024 · $1.1M · revenue 0% · 36% of their budget
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.
AZCIR holds powerful people and institutions accountable by exposing injustice and systemic inequities through investigative journalism.
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.
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…
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
Arizonans for economic prosperity mission is to work toward a prosperous arizona economy for all.
A statewide advocacy organization that advances arizona business and the arizona economy. the arizona chamber of commerce and industry is commited to advancing arizona's competitive position in the global economy by advocating free market…
Svp tucson is an ever expanding community of engaged philanthropists dedicated to building the capacity, strength and impact of nonprofits in addressing social problems. we accomplish this through: thoughtful and strategic investments and…
The Coalition's mission is to protect the biodiversity of the Sonoran Desert in Southern Arizona through science-based advocacy, education, and collaboration.
Opening doors to success in a constantly changing world
Promote, support, and facilitate biomedical and health services research and education activities
Efaz serves, preserves and improves az's environment by raising awareness, volunteers and finanical support through workplace giving campaigns.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Place Az and the most unlike its peers is Vassar College. 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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
1694 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. 1694 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA GOLF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN THEATRE WING INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA ANTI-TRAFFICKING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds RODEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO 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: Thunderbirds Charities · Burton Family Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Valley of the Sun United Way · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Margaret T Morris Foundation · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn
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 Arizona Community 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.
- Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 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.