Arizona · Public charity
Arizona Science Center
To inspire, educate and engage curious minds through science.
- $40k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $49M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Arizona Science Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $40k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $114k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $378k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $32k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $619k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $153k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $165k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $92k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Science Museum of Minnesota | $275,872 | 1 | 1% |
| White Mountain Wildlife & Nature Ce | $255,479 | 5 | 61% |
| Eastern Arizona College | $180,708 | 6 | n/a |
| Arizona State University | $143,259 | 3 | n/a |
| Arizona Regional Economic Development Foundation | $138,977 | 3 | 10% |
| City of Cottonwoodverde Valley Ric | $121,661 | 4 | n/a |
| Skyline Education Inc | $88,892 | 1 | 1% |
| Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN | $88,192 | 2 | 3% |
| Indian Oasis Baboquivari Unified School District #40 | $86,505 | 1 | n/a |
| Chinle Unified School District | $71,876 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Science Museum of Minnesota | $275,872 | 1 | 1% |
| White Mountain Wildlife & Nature Ce | $255,479 | 5 | 61% |
| Eastern Arizona College | $180,708 | 6 | n/a |
| Arizona State University | $143,259 | 3 | n/a |
| Arizona Regional Economic Development Foundation | $138,977 | 3 | 10% |
| City of Cottonwoodverde Valley Ric | $121,661 | 4 | n/a |
| Skyline Education Inc | $88,892 | 1 | 1% |
| Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN | $88,192 | 2 | 3% |
| Indian Oasis Baboquivari Unified School District #40 | $86,505 | 1 | n/a |
| Chinle Unified School District | $71,876 | 1 | n/a |
| Bisbee Science Exploration & Research Center | $45,550 | 1 | n/a |
| Sky Islands Regional Partnership | $35,088 | 2 | 10% |
| North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc | $32,035 | 2 | 0% |
| The Science Vortex of Verde Valley | $20,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Childrens Creativity Museum | $14,083 | 1 | 1% |
| Sciencenter Discovery Museum | $7,970 | 1 | 0% |
| First Book | $2,360 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Arizona Science Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Arizona Science Center
- How much does Arizona Science Center give?
- Arizona Science Center reported 1 grants totaling $40,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arizona Science Center fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (40%), Education (31%), Animals (16%).
- Who are Arizona Science Center's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Science Museum of Minnesota ($276k), White Mountain Wildlife & Nature Ce ($255k), Eastern Arizona College ($181k).
- Does Arizona Science Center fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arizona Science Center?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Arizona Science Center based?
- Arizona Science Center is based in AZ.
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