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Arizona Humanities Council Inc

Our mission is to build a just and civil society by creating opportunities for the public to explore our shared human experiences through discussion, learning and reflection.

$226k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.6MEducation$164kYouth Development$95kEnvironment$50kHuman Services$40kCommunity Improvement$36kRecreation & Sports$32kCrime & Legal$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $150,573 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $226,490 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,917 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLAGSTAFF ARTS COUNCIL$10,000
MONSOON YOUTH EDUCATION PROJECT - S$10,000
FLAGSTAFF ARTS COUNCIL$10,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON$10,000
NACO HERITAGE ALLIANCE$10,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$10,000
NORTHERN ARIZONA BOOK FESTIVAL$10,000
LATINX KIDLIT BOOK FESTIVAL$10,000
THE HOPI FOUNDATION - HOPI LEADERSH$10,000
NATURAL HISTORY INSTITUTE$10,000
VETERANS HERITAGE PROJECT$10,000
PUEBLO GRANDE MUSEUM AUXILIARY$9,662
CULTURAL COALITION INC$9,000
THE BLACK THEATRE TROUPE INC$7,500
SHARLOT HALL MUSEUM$7,211
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.

area typical 10%ALIENTO: $10k → 11%THE HOPI FOUNDATION: $20k → 26%THE HOPI FOUNDATION - HOPI LEADERSH: $10k → 26%ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $15k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 46 repeat orgs$676k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
58

Total granted

$1.4M
$649k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+24%

Still filing today

87%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

  • IO
    IMPRINTS OF HONOR
    6× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +114%
  • SV
    SEDAV VAAKI MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $53k · revenue +7% · 56% of their budget
  • FA
    FLAGSTAFF ARTS COUNCIL INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • AL
    American Literary Translators Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue +71%
  • TF
    TigerMountain Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -28%
  • RG
    REVEILLE GAY MENS CHORUS
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum
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3
Degrazia Foundation Inc
Unclassified
4
Arizona Railroad Historical Society
Arts & Culture
5
Mesa Historical Society Inc

Mesa historical society is a public museum dedicated to preserving mesas rich culture and history through collections and exhibits

—
6
Arizona Railway Museum

Acquisition preservation and Restoration of Railroad Artifacts Showing the History of Arizona

—
7
The Bisbee Foundation Inc

Our focus is to work with groups and individuals who are in the arts, humanities, education and historic preservation with goals designed to enhance Bisbees unique place in the history of the Southwest, the contribution made to Bisbees…

—
8
Los Descendientes Del Presidio De T

preserve and celebrate tucson culture

Unclassified
9
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society

The objectives of the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS) are: to encourage scholarly pursuits into the history and anthropology of the southwest United States and northwest Mexico; (see Schedule O for full mission…

Arts & Culture
10
Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona

The Arts Foundation mission is to advance artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture in our region.

Arts & Culture
11
Mohave County Historical Society

The mohave county historical society maintains a museum in kingman, arizona to collect and display historical objects and to increase and distribute knowledge and appreciation of the history of the area.

—
12
Casa Dolores Co Claudia Mclaughlin
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Museum of Natural History Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pinal County Historical Society 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Arts and Cultural Pro…Community Impact Organizati…Golf & Country ClubsCharter Schools and Educati…Faith-Based Community Servi…Veterans Service Organizati…Youth & Family Support Serv…Philanthropic FoundationsHealthcare Systems and Comm…Nature Education and Conser…Community Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%5%<5yr17%9%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr11%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%4%<5yr17%11%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr10%32%35–55yr11%11%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/107
the rest of the field
16%
3,861/24,056

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.

04the grantee network

94 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 94 of the 108 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/94
Grantees still filing
60/94
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IMPRINTS OF HONOR — $70,000 · Arts & CultureIMPRINTS OF HONORMuseum of Northern Arizona Inc — $68,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Northern Arizona IncRISING YOUTH THEATRE — $64,500 · Arts & CultureRISING YOUTH THEATREFLAGSTAFF ARTS COUNCIL INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureBORDERLANDS THEATER TEATRO FRONTERIZO INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK THEATRE TROUPE INC — $37,500 · Arts & CulturePhonetic Spit — $35,500 · Arts & Culture+41 more — $697,714 · Arts & Culture+41 moreARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY — $61,250 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYSEDAV VAAKI MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $52,833 · OtherSEDAV VAAKI MUSEUM FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $35,000 · OtherVail Preservation Society — $30,569 · OtherMORNING STAR LEADERS INC — $30,000 · OtherAPACHE LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM INC — $30,000 · OtherARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $27,500 · Other+38 more — $514,466 · Other+38 moreNORTHERN ARIZONA BOOKFESTIVAL INC — $31,000 · EducationGEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER — $30,000 · EducationCOSANTI FOUNDATION — $8,665 · EducationCOOK NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION — $8,000 · EducationVALLEY BEIT MIDRASH — $7,200 · EducationTHE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUKWSIWMANI — $30,000 · Human ServicesARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesAliento Education Fund — $10,000 · Human ServicesBORDER YOUTH TENNIS EXCHANGE INC — $32,000 · Recreation & SportsDUNBAR COALITION INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFriends of the Tubac Presidio and Museum Inc — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBALLET FOLKLORICO QUETZALLI-AZ — $30,000 · HealthNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC — $10,000 · HealthAGUILA YOUTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentMONSOON YOUTH EDUCATION PROJECT — $10,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$1,063,714Other$781,618Education$84,865Human Services$55,000Recreation & Sports$52,000Health$40,000Youth Development$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIMPRINTS OF HONOR — $70,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetMuseum of Northern Arizona Inc — $68,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRISING YOUTH THEATRE — $64,500 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetSEDAV VAAKI MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $52,833 over 4y, 56% of budgetFLAGSTAFF ARTS COUNCIL INC — $50,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBORDERLANDS THEATER TEATRO FRONTERIZO INC — $40,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetBLACK THEATRE TROUPE INC — $37,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetPhonetic Spit — $35,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetTUCSON CHINESE ASSOCIATION INC — $32,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetBORDER YOUTH TENNIS EXCHANGE INC — $32,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA BOOKFESTIVAL INC — $31,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetVail Preservation Society — $30,569 over 3y, 27% of budgetGEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetTHE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUKWSIWMANI — $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetEMERSON THEATER COLLABORATIVE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetBALLET FOLKLORICO QUETZALLI-AZ — $30,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetAGUILA YOUTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetHeritage Square Foundation — $29,968 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetXico Inc — $28,467 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNACO HERITAGE ALLIANCE INC — $28,309 over 2y, 20% of budgetARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $27,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFountain Hills & Lower Verde River Valley Museum & Historical Society — $25,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTUCSON HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetThe Amerind Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetKore Press Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetPINAL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetCULTURAL COALITION INC — $25,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetWillcox Theater and Arts Inc — $24,921 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetAmerican Literary Translators Association — $23,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSHARLOT HALL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AZ — $22,211 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL — $22,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetGILBERT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $20,800 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSEDONA ARTS CENTER INC — $20,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLAKE HAVASU CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,280 over 2y, 14% of budgetTigerMountain Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMillion Dollar Teacher Project — $20,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetJAZZ IN ARIZONA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSOUNDS ACADEMY — $20,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetGLEN CANYON CONSERVANCY — $19,720 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPHOENIX LEGAL ACTION NETWORK — $19,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TUCSON — $19,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTUCSON PRESIDIO TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION — $19,495 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetArchaeology Southwest — $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLATINX KIDLIT BOOK FESTIVAL INC — $15,500 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetGRAND CANYON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…Community Foundation …Southwest Foundation …Arts Foundation for T…Burton Family Foundat…Thunderbirds CharitiesThe Foundation for Co…Western States Arts F…Ellis Center for Educ…Helios Education Foun…The Diane and Bruce H…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ69.8× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Southwest Foundation for Education & Historical Preservation · Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona · Burton Family Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Western States Arts Federation · Ellis Center for Educational Excellence · Helios Education Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle 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 Arizona Humanities Council Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 108 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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