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Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona

The Arts Foundation mission is to advance artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture in our region.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.7MPhilanthropy$73kHuman Services$61kCivil Rights$42kEnvironment$21kEducation$15kOther$666k
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 43 grants below total $563,157 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,082,214 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $519,057 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $530k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Southern Arizona Arts and Cul$25,000
Borderlands Theater Teatro$25,000
MOCA Tucson$25,000
Community Performing Arts Ctr$15,000
The Scoundrel and Scamp Th$15,000
The Rogue Theatre$15,000
Live Theatre Workshop$15,000
The Mulivrs Is Illuminated$15,000
Yuma Community Theatre$15,000
Lead Guitar$15,000
Tucson Museum of Art$15,000
Groundworks Tucson$15,000
American Literary Translators$15,000
The Drop Dance Studio$15,000
Splinter Art and Community$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Sierra Vista Symphony Assoc: $10k → 18%NORTH FOURTH AVENUE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION: $18k → 15%Reach for the Stars: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 42 repeat orgs$949k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
54

Total granted

$1.6M
$772k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
0%

Still filing today

93%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • LT
    Live Theatre Workshop
    4× · 2017–2025 · $88k · revenue +55%
  • AT
    Arizona Theatre Company
    4× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +9%
  • SA
    SCOUNDREL AND SCAMP THEATRE INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $78k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • HC
    HOTEL CONGRESS LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • RT
    RIALTO THEATRE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +520%
  • WS
    WESTERN SHOWCASE LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona

The Arts Foundation mission is to advance artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture in our region.

Arts & Culture
2
Tucson Regional Ballet Inc

Tucson Regional Ballet is a performing company of Regional Dance America Pacific and provides affordable, accessible and quality ballet for Southern Arizona. The hight quality standards required for Regional Dance America provide the staff…

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3
Stray Cat Theatre

Decidedly off the beaten path, Stray Cat is indie theatre at its best: quirky, edgy and irreverent. Stray Cat Theatre scratches the Valley's itch for a visceral, provocative theatre experience for culture-savvy cats who crave something…

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4
Ajo Council for the Fine Arts

The mission of Ajo Council for the Fine Arts is to bring performing, visual, educational and entertaining art activities to Ajo and western Pima County, to provide a venue for local artists to sell their work, and to promote art education…

Arts & Culture
5
Triad Performing Arts of Arizona

Our mission is to provide a truly unique performing arts experience to the West Valley. Through high quality productions in the areas of music, dance, and theatre, we can empower artists of all ages to pursue their dreams in the performing…

Arts & Culture
6
Sedona Symphony

The Sedona Symphony is committed to enriching the quality of life of our Northern Arizona community through the power of live orchestral music that educates, entertains, and inspires. From timeless classics to bold contemporary works, the…

Arts & Culture
7
Phoenix Performing Arts Inc
Arts & Culture
8
Young Artist's Community Ballet in

Promote ballet and the arts in the youth of southern arizona through the production of classical ballet performances.

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9
Phoenix Arts Association

Theatrical perfomances

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10
Tempe Center for the Arts Foundation

Support cultural events at the Tempe Center for the Arts

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11
Ballet Folklorico De Colores

to teach and perform Mexican folk dances

Arts & Culture
12
Stratford Art Works Inc

Stratford Art Works creates, fosters, supports and manages events, activities and cultural programs that connect the arts with audiences.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Cruz Valley Art Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is La Linea Art Studio. 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 23 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%9%<5yr15%22%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr12%16%35–55yr13%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%7%<5yr15%14%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr18%34%20–35yr12%17%35–55yr13%13%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/109
the rest of the field
14%
674/4,843

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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 109 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/84
Grantees still filing
45/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Live Theatre Workshop — $87,500 · Arts & CultureArizona Theatre Company — $77,500 · Arts & CultureSCOUNDREL AND SCAMP THEATRE INC — $77,500 · Arts & CultureFOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Arts & CultureThe Rogue Theatre — $70,000 · Arts & CultureLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC — $67,500 · Arts & CultureINVISIBLE THEATRE — $59,976 · Arts & CultureTucson Symphony Society — $58,000 · Arts & Culture+53 more — $1,122,682 · Arts & Culture+53 moreWAREHOUSE ARTS MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION — $66,080 · OtherWAREHOUSE ARTS MANAGEMENT ORG…HOTEL CONGRESS LLC — $50,000 · OtherHOTEL CONGRESS LLCWESTERN SHOWCASE LLC — $50,000 · OtherWESTERN SHOWCASE LLCAmerican Literary Translators Association — $45,500 · OtherAmerican Literary Translators…LOS DESCENDIENTES DEL PRESIDIO DE T — $27,000 · OtherFUNHOUSE MOVEMENT THEATER — $27,000 · OtherTUCSON KITCHEN MUSICIANS ASSOCIATION — $26,000 · Other+30 more — $374,324 · Other+30 moreArt State Arizona — $73,000 · PhilanthropyOWL & PANTHER — $23,000 · Human ServicesFourth Avenue Foundation Inc — $18,000 · Human ServicesSierra Vista Symphony Association — $10,000 · Human ServicesReach for the Stars — $10,000 · Human ServicesREVEILLE GAY MENS CHORUS — $27,000 · Civil RightsARIZONA BORDER RIGHTS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Civil RightsInternational Indian Treaty Council Inc — $5,000 · Civil RightsINTERNATIONAL SONORAN DESERT ALLIANCE — $15,000 · EnvironmentTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS — $6,250 · EnvironmentLITERACY CONNECTS — $15,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$1,695,658Other$665,904Philanthropy$73,000Human Services$61,000Civil Rights$42,000Environment$21,250Education$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLive Theatre Workshop — $87,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetArizona Theatre Company — $77,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSCOUNDREL AND SCAMP THEATRE INC — $77,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetFOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetArt State Arizona — $73,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetThe Rogue Theatre — $70,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC — $67,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetINVISIBLE THEATRE — $59,976 over 3y, 15% of budgetTucson Symphony Society — $58,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TUCSON — $55,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON — $52,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetRIALTO THEATRE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAmerican Literary Translators Association — $45,500 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetGROUNDWORKS TUCSON — $45,500 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetTHE DRAWING STUDIO INC — $45,464 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetMany Mouths One Stomach — $41,500 over 3y, 38% of budgetUNSCREWED THEATER — $35,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetDROP DANCE STUDIO INC — $35,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetLEAD GUITAR — $32,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBORDERLANDS THEATER TEATRO FRONTERIZO INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSonoran Art Foundation Inc — $29,663 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTUCSON YOUTH MUSIC CENTER — $28,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSAFOS DANCE THEATRE INC — $27,720 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetREVEILLE GAY MENS CHORUS — $27,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTUCSON KITCHEN MUSICIANS ASSOCIATION — $26,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTUCSON ARIZONA BOYS CHORUS — $25,231 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetDancing in the Streets Arizona — $25,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetJAZZ IN JANUARY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetThe Multivrs Is Illuminated — $25,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CREATIVE BROADCASTING — $24,994 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOWL & PANTHER — $23,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetArts for All Inc — $21,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTRUE CONCORD VOICES AND ORCHESTRA INC — $21,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWillcox Theater and Arts Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCentral School Project Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetSouthwest Folklife Alliance Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLA LINEA ART STUDIO — $19,034 over 2y, 15% of budgetSOCIETY FOR BEVEL INTENTIONS INC — $18,500 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetARIZONA REPERTORY SINGERS — $18,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetDouglas Arts and Humanities Association Border Arts Corridor — $17,500 over 1y, 35% of budgetTucson Metropolitan Community Chorus — $15,515 over 1y, 38% of budgetYuma Community Theater Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetARIZONA FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTucson Girls Chorus Association Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSplinter Art and Community Fund — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBALLET ARTS FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Jewish Community Foun…Arizona Humanities Co…The Hs Lopez Family F…Southwest Foundation …Donald Pitt Family Fo…Margaret E Mooney Fou…The David and Lura Lo…Arizona Community Fou…The Stonewall Foundat…Connie Hillman Family…The Stocker Foundation
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ103.9× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Arizona Humanities Council Inc · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Southwest Foundation for Education & Historical Preservation · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · Margaret E Mooney Foundation · The David and Lura Lovell · Arizona Community Foundation · The Stonewall Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Stocker Foundation

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 Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    23report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 109 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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