Arizona · Private foundation
Armstrong McDonald Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $115,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $610,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 24
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Armstrong McDonald Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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 | 21 | $2.7M | 5% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $1.8M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.2M | 5% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $1.2M | 5% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| College of the Ozarks | $702,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Reid Park Zoological Society | $680,000 | 2 | 5% |
| University of Arizona Foundation | $645,267 | 5 | 0% |
| Tu Nidito Children and Family Services Inc | $607,925 | 5 | 11% |
| Bellevue University | $602,900 | 4 | 0% |
| Tucson Children's Museum Inc Dba Children's Museum Tucson | $540,725 | 5 | 8% |
| Hastings College Foundation | $533,600 | 4 | n/a |
| Zoological Society of San Diego | $518,743 | 4 | 0% |
| Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation | $460,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Mosaic | $412,180 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($975k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Armstrong McDonald Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Margaret E Mooney Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Texas Instruments Foundation · Mulcahy Foundation · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Union Pacific Foundation
How this is measured
About Armstrong McDonald Foundation
- How much does Armstrong McDonald Foundation give?
- Armstrong McDonald Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $2,733,301 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 24 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Armstrong McDonald Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Health (16%), Animals (10%).
- Who are Armstrong McDonald Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: College of the Ozarks ($702k), Reid Park Zoological Society ($680k), University of Arizona Foundation ($645k).
- Does Armstrong McDonald Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Armstrong McDonald Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Armstrong McDonald Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, The Hs Lopez Family Foundation, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc.
- Where is Armstrong McDonald Foundation based?
- Armstrong McDonald Foundation is based in AZ.
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