· Public charity
Arizona Leadership Foundation Inc
Providing tuition scholarships
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 134 grants below total $13,768,579 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $16,638,990 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,870,411 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 · FY2017
- Under $10k35 grants · $159k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k48 grants · $5.7M
- $250k+13 grants · $6.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL | $1,574,060 |
| ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST | $905,800 |
| ST JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $691,650 |
| SALPOINTE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $597,522 |
| SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $433,606 |
| YUMA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $406,800 |
| IMAGO DEI MIDDLE SCHOOL | $399,500 |
| PUSCH RIDGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY SCHOOL | $382,500 |
| OUR MOTHER OF SORROWS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $341,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $306,500 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $262,859 |
| BOURGADE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $255,188 |
| TUCSON WALDORF SCHOOL | $250,100 |
| TORAH DAY SCHOOL OF PHOENIX | $223,500 |
| XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $210,333 |
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 (FY17–17, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…
to develop the whole child by providing challenging and creative academic, spiritual, and social experiences.
We want our students to know Jesus and be loved. UCS nutures each one to grow their faith and excel academically through Christ-centerd, Bible-based instruction.
To provide a comprehensive Christian Classical education to grades 1-12.
Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…
To provide a safe, positive environment for all students with a strong focus on academic success, student leadership, parental involvement, and community partnership.
The school provides a biblically sound education program of high academic standards in a loving environment that meets the need of the whole child: spiritually, academically, physically, and socially.
Tcs is an independent christian school that prepares young men and women for college and life by providing challenging opportunities to excel in the vital areas of faith, virtue and knowledge.
In partnership with parents, Artesia Classical Academy equips students to be Christlike disciples and servant-leaders who know and share God's Word.
Christian School grades k-8
Uvalde classical academy is a private school committed to the preservation of the integrity of a quality education and the standard of character expected of children representing christ and christian homes. our goal is to establish an…
Sccs builds the city of god by forming servant leaders who love goodness, truth, and beauty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Christian Schools and the most unlike its peers is Tucson Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation. 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 60 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 133 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 SALPOINTE CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds YUMA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL -YUMA ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds IMAGO DEI MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PUSCH RIDGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds TUCSON HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN CENTERS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Tucson International School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREGORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW WAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Gilbert Christian Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds SS PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds Desert Christian Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds GREEN FIELDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX CHRISTIAN UNIFIED SCHOOLS ↗
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 Tuition Connection Inc · Catholic Community Foundation for the Diocese of Phoenix · Catholic Education Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Private School Tuition Organization Apsto Inc · Moreno Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Tw Lewis Foundation · Arizona Waldorf Scholarship Foundation · The Thunderbirds
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 Leadership Foundation 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.
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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