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Arizona Sportsmen for Wildlife Conservation

The mission of the organization is to educate the public and outdoorsmen about wildlife and wildlife conservation and to raise funds for conservation grants.

$251k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$556kEnvironment$395kRecreation & Sports$271kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kYouth Development$9kReligion$6k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $234,743, the rows itemized in this filing. The $250,945 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,202 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$12,790
Median grant
2
States reached
$502k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARIZONA ELK SOCIETY$50,950
Individual grant recipient$29,803
WILDLIFE WATER WORKS$24,900
AZ COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED$20,307
AZ DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP SOCIE$14,500
PHEASANTS FOREVER INC$13,352
MOGOLLON SPORTING ASSOCIATION$12,790
ARIZONA OUTDOOR ADVENTURES$12,000
VALLEY OF THE SUN QUAIL FOREV$11,536
SHOOT RIGHT$10,250
AZ MULE DEER ORGANIZATION$10,240
WHITE MT CLAY TARGET CLUB$10,000
WILDLIFE FOR TOMORROW$8,915
ARIZONA DEER ASSOCIATION$5,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Arizona Bowhunters Assoc: $6k → 11%DYKSTRA MACHINERY: $30k → 11%AZ Chapter NWTF: $49k → 14%Friends of BANWR: $13k → 15%WILDLIFE WATER WORKS: $25k → 16%AZ Council of Trout Unlimited: $51k → 19%WHITE MT CLAY TARGET CLUB: $10k → 26%PHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $13k → 14%National Forest Foundation: $20k → 9%Mule Deer Foundation: $16k → 8%Southwest Wildlife Foundation: $9k → 13%AZ Wildlife Federation AWF: $8k → 11%AZ Chapter NWTF: $40k → 14%Altar Valley Conservation All: $25k → 15%Mule Deer Foundation: $9k → 16%AZ COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED: $20k → 19%Mule Deer Foundation: $11k → 8%Outdoor Experience Inc: $17k → 11%AZ Chapter NWTF: $28k → 14%Southern AZ Chapter Quail For: $35k → 15%AZ Council of Trout Unlimited: $19k → 19%ARIZONA ELK SOCIETY: $51k → 11%AZ Chapter NWTF: $15k → 14%Southern AZ Chapter Quail For: $15k → 15%AZ Council of Trout Unlimited: $18k → 19%Arizona Elk Society: $50k → 11%AZ Chapter NWTF: $9k → 14%Southern AZ Chapter Quial For: $13k → 15%AZ Council of Trout Unlimited: $7k → 19%Arizona Elk Society: $45k → 11%AZ Council of Trout Unlimited: $7k → 19%Arizona Elk Society: $13k → 11%AZ Council of Trout Unlimited: $5k → 19%Arizona Elk Society: $9k → 11%Arizona Elk Society: $6k → 11%Arizona Elk Society: $6k → 11%AZ Raptor Center: $9k → 11%WILDLIFE FOR TOMORROW: $9k → 11%Valley of the Sun Quail Forev: $19k → 11%Valley of the Sun Quail Forev: $14k → 11%Valley of the Sun Quail Forev: $12k → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN QUAIL FOREV: $12k → 11%Valley of the Sun Quail Forev: $6k → 11%Valley of the Sun Quail Forev: $6k → 11%SHOOT RIGHT: $10k → 11%Conservation First USA: $50k → 11%AZ MULE DEER ORGANIZATION: $10k → 11%Mogollon Sporting Associatio: $13k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$990k · 11 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$990k
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
0%

Still filing today

91%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsRecreation & SportsEnvironmentReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AE
    Arizona Elk Society
    7× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +289%
  • PF
    PHEASANTS FOREVER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $149k · revenue +89%
  • TU
    TROUT UNLIMITED aka THE ARIZONA COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +2% · 41% of their budget

Funded once

  • AB
    ARIZONA BIG GAME SUPER RAFFLE INC DBA CONSERVATION FIRST USA
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -73%
  • AV
    ALTAR VALLEY CONSERVATION ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +173%
  • NF
    NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +156%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Conserve and Protect Arizona

To protect and conserve wildlife and its habitat

Environment
2
Arizona Sportsmen for Wildlife Conservation

The mission of the organization is to educate the public and outdoorsmen about wildlife and wildlife conservation and to raise funds for conservation grants.

Animals
3
Utah Archery Association

Promote wildlife and wildlife habitat conservation efforts, proper wildlife management, preserve archery hunting opportunties and promote competitive archery opportunties friends of antelope island wildlife habitat improvement on antelope…

Animals
4
Arizonans for Wildlife

Az for wildlife is seeking to put a measure on the november 2018 ballot that would prohibit the trophy hunting, including by cruel hunting and trapping, of mountain lion, bobcats, jaguars, ocelots, and lynx

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5
Outdoor Adventures for Wounded Veterans Inc
Public Benefit
6
Carson Springs Wildlife Foundation
Animals
7
Arizona Association of Conservation Districts Inc

Arizona has multiple resource conservation districts to assist ranching and agricultural interests. This state association was formed to educate organize and coordinate the individual districts so that they can effectively utilize…

Environment
8
Arizona Site Steward Program Foundation
Education
9
Southwest Environmental Center

To promote and protect Wildlife

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10
Alaska Chapter of Delta Waterfowl Foundation

Wildlife Conservation

Animals
11
Operation Phoenix Outdoors

Operation Phoenix Outdoors honors and supports military members, veterans, first responders, and their families by providing guided outdoor experiences that promote healing, strengthen relationships, and help combat veteran suicide.

Recreation & Sports
12
Idaho Wildlife Federation

The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Antelope Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Water Works. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
12/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arizona Elk Society: $179,600 · AnimalsArizona Elk SocietyArizona Deer Association Inc: $102,802 · AnimalsArizona Deer Association IncArizona Antelope Foundation Inc: $69,160 · AnimalsArizona Antelope Foundation IncArizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Inc: $50,245 · AnimalsArizona Desert Bighorn Sheep IncARIZONA BIG GAME SUPER RAFFLE INC DBA CONSERVATION FIRST USA: $50,000 · AnimalsARIZONA BIG GAME SUPER RAFFLE INC DBA CONSERVATI…MULE DEER FOUNDATION: $36,213 · AnimalsMULE DEER FOUNDATIONWildlife Water Works: $24,900 · Animals+3 more: $26,414 · AnimalsPHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $148,511 · OtherPHEASANTS FOREVER INCNATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION INC: $141,186 · OtherNATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION INCTROUT UNLIMITED aka THE ARIZONA COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED INC: $127,433 · OtherTROUT UNLIMITED aka THE ARIZONA COUNCIL OF T…Individual grant recipient: $29,803 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+5 more: $47,800 · Other+5 moreARIZONA OUTDOOR ADVENTURES INC: $78,000 · Recreation & SportsARIZONA OUTDOOR …MOGOLLON SPORTING ASSOCIATION INC: $37,790 · Recreation & SportsMOGOLLON SPORTIN…NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL FOREST …ARIZONA OUTDOOR SPORTS INC: $19,373 · Recreation & SportsARIZONA OUTDOOR …The Outdoor Experience Inc: $16,769 · Recreation & SportsThe Outdoor Expe…White Mountain Clay Targets Club Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsWhite Mountain C…ALTAR VALLEY CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $25,000 · EnvironmentFOUNDATION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF ARIZONAS WILDLIFE: $8,915 · EnvironmentDESERT CHRISTIAN ARCHERS: $6,110 · Religion
Animals$539,334Other$494,733Recreation & Sports$181,932Environment$33,915Religion$6,110

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArizona Elk Society: $179,600 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetPHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $148,511 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED aka THE ARIZONA COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED INC: $127,433 over 7y, 41% of budgetArizona Deer Association Inc: $102,802 over 5y, 20% of budgetARIZONA OUTDOOR ADVENTURES INC: $78,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetArizona Antelope Foundation Inc: $69,160 over 5y, 19% of budgetArizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Inc: $50,245 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetARIZONA BIG GAME SUPER RAFFLE INC DBA CONSERVATION FIRST USA: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMOGOLLON SPORTING ASSOCIATION INC: $37,790 over 3y, 29% of budgetMULE DEER FOUNDATION: $36,213 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALTAR VALLEY CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA OUTDOOR SPORTS INC: $19,373 over 2y, 12% of budgetThe Outdoor Experience Inc: $16,769 over 1y, 12% of budgetMohave Sportsman Club: $10,300 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF ARIZONAS WILDLIFE: $8,915 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetARIZONA RAPTOR CENTER: $8,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetARIZONA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $7,674 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDESERT CHRISTIAN ARCHERS: $6,110 over 1y, 6.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Rocky Mountain Elk Fo…National Fish and Wil…NRA Foundation IncAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation IncMT15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · NRA Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arizona Sportsmen for Wildlife Conservation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arizona Sportsmen for Wildlife Conservation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
    1report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Arizona Sportsmen for Wildlife Conservation?

    Find your warmest path to Arizona Sportsmen for Wildlife Conservation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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