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Arizona Tuition Connection Inc
Arizona tuition connection, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $22,737,156 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23M 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
- SFSt Francis Xavier Elementary2× · 2022–2023 · $335k
- ASAbbie School2× · 2022–2023 · $204k
- MIMONTESSORI IN THE PARK FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue -100%
Funded once
- NDNotre Dame Preparatory Highone grant, 2023 · $1.7M
- VCVALIANT COLLEGE PREPARATORYone grant, 2023 · $1.4M · revenue -55% · 60% of their budget
- BCBROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORYone grant, 2023 · $909k
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.
Christian School grades k-8
To partner with parents to provide christ-centered, biblically based, classical education that nurtures the whole child.
To provide a safe, positive environment for all students with a strong focus on academic success, student leadership, parental involvement, and community partnership.
Commitment to development of the whole child by providing students a well-rounded, individualized education and development experience that is grounded on Montessori principles
Agape christian academy is an educational institution that offers a bible based curriculum in a private school setting. the school offers exceptional educational value to both the students and the community.
Academy charter school (the "school") was formed in 1993 pursuant to the colorado charter schools act to form and operate a charter school.
Pinnacle Christian School serves to meet the education needs of families in the greater Parker County area by providing complete, advanced, Bible-based academic K-8th grade instruction taught by highly-qualified teachers on Tuesdays and…
To provide a comprehensive Christian Classical education to grades 1-12.
The mission of victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…
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.
Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.
Academic, cultural, and religious
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Christian Schools and the most unlike its peers is Valiant College Preparatory. 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 34 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 135 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 VALIANT COLLEGE PREPARATORY ↗
- Who funds Gilbert Christian Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREGORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds IMAGO DEI MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW WAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds DESERT GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI IN THE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 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: Arizona Leadership Foundation Inc · Arizona Private School Tuition Organization Apsto Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Moreno Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation for the Diocese of Phoenix · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · David R Picerne Charitable Foundation · Catholic Education Arizona · Tulsa Community Foundation · Tw Lewis Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
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 Tuition Connection 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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