How much does Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona give?

Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona reported 43 itemized grants totaling $563,157, out of $1,082,214 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

Who are Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Live Theatre Workshop ($88k), Arizona Theatre Company ($78k), Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre Inc ($78k).

Does Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

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Arizona · Public charity

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 FY2025(still arriving): 43
Itemized grants FY2025: 54
Organizations funded FY2024: 48%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $563k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 59; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $2.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	42	$563k	31%
FY2024	54	$555k	48%
FY2021	59	$1.3M	81%
FY2018	5	$40k	0%
FY2017	22	$125k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.1MEducation$35kEnvironment$21kCommunity Improvement$20kCivil Rights$15kHealth$10kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0

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
Live Theatre Workshop	$87,500	4	10%
Arizona Theatre Company	$77,500	4	1%
Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre Inc	$77,500	3	15%
Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation	$75,000	3	1%
Art State Arizona	$73,000	5	3%
The Rogue Theatre	$70,000	3	5%
Loft Cinema Inc Fka Tucson Cinema Foundation Inc	$67,500	3	1%
Warehouse Arts Management Organization	$66,080	2	n/a
Invisible Theatre	$59,976	3	15%
Tucson Symphony Society	$58,000	5	0%

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All grantees of Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Live Theatre Workshop	$87,500	4	10%
Arizona Theatre Company	$77,500	4	1%
Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre Inc	$77,500	3	15%
Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation	$75,000	3	1%
Art State Arizona	$73,000	5	3%
The Rogue Theatre	$70,000	3	5%
Loft Cinema Inc Fka Tucson Cinema Foundation Inc	$67,500	3	1%
Warehouse Arts Management Organization	$66,080	2	n/a
Invisible Theatre	$59,976	3	15%
Tucson Symphony Society	$58,000	5	0%
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson	$55,500	3	3%
Tucson Children's Museum Inc Dba Children's Museum Tucson	$52,500	5	1%
Western Showcase LLC	$50,000	1	n/a
Rialto Theatre Foundation	$50,000	1	4%
Hotel Congress LLC	$50,000	1	n/a
Groundworks Tucson	$45,500	3	9%
American Literary Translators Association	$45,500	3	5%
The Drawing Studio Inc	$45,464	4	4%
Many Mouths One Stomach	$41,500	3	38%
Unscrewed Theater	$35,000	1	27%
Drop Dance Studio Inc	$35,000	3	18%
Lead Guitar	$32,000	2	3%
Borderlands Theater Teatro Fronterizo Inc	$30,000	2	3%
Bi-National Arts Institute	$30,000	3	n/a
Sonoran Art Foundation Inc	$29,663	3	4%
Tucson Youth Music Center	$28,000	2	22%
Safos Dance Theatre Inc	$27,720	3	5%
Funhouse Movement Theater	$27,000	3	n/a
Los Descendientes del Presidio de T	$27,000	2	n/a
Reveille Gay Mens Chorus	$27,000	2	5%
Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association	$26,000	3	16%
Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus	$25,231	2	2%
Jazz in January Inc	$25,000	2	2%
The Multivrs Is Illuminated	$25,000	2	29%
Dancing in the Streets Arizona	$25,000	2	24%
Foundation for Creative Broadcasting	$24,994	2	1%
Owl & Panther	$23,000	1	26%
Barbea Williams Performing Company Inc	$23,000	1	n/a
Santa Cruz Advocates for the Arts	$21,892	2	n/a
Arts for All Inc	$21,500	1	2%
True Concord Voices and Orchestra Inc	$21,250	3	1%
Southwest Folklife Alliance Inc	$20,000	2	1%
Avenidas Inc 501(C)3	$20,000	1	n/a
Willcox Theater and Arts Inc	$20,000	2	2%
Sierra Vista Community Thea	$20,000	1	n/a
Arizona Womens Chorus	$20,000	1	n/a
Central School Project Inc	$20,000	2	7%
Tucson Handweavers and Spinners Guild Inc	$19,500	1	n/a
Southern Arizona Performing Arts Company	$19,500	1	n/a
La Linea Art Studio	$19,034	2	15%
Society for Bevel Intentions Inc	$18,500	2	10%
Fourth Avenue Foundation Inc	$18,000	1	n/a
Academia de Baile Tradicion y Cultura Inc	$18,000	1	n/a
Lpfm Downtown Tucson	$18,000	1	n/a
Global Community Communications Alliance	$18,000	1	n/a
Arizona Repertory Singers	$18,000	1	16%
Douglas Arts and Humanities Association Border Arts Corridor	$17,500	1	35%
Tucson Juneteenth Festival Committee	$16,500	1	n/a
Capoeira Institute Inc	$16,500	1	n/a
Tucson Metropolitan Community Chorus	$15,515	1	38%
Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Yuma Community Theater Inc	$15,000	1	12%
International Sonoran Desert Alliance	$15,000	1	n/a
Artmobile-Az Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Splinter Art and Community Fund	$15,000	1	2%
Literacy Connects	$15,000	2	0%
Saguaro City Music Theatre	$15,000	1	3%
Community Performing Arts Ctr Foundation Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music	$15,000	2	2%
Tucson Girls Chorus Association Inc	$15,000	1	2%
Ballet Arts Foundation	$12,000	2	0%
Arizona Early Music Society Inc	$11,500	1	15%
Esperanza Dance Project	$10,000	1	15%
Reach for the Stars	$10,000	1	14%
Santa Cruz Valley Art Association Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Arizona Border Rights Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Chax Press Inc	$10,000	1	14%
Zuzi	$10,000	1	14%
Sierra Vista Symphony Association	$10,000	1	5%
Space 55 Theatre Ensemble Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
W3aving W3bs LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Sculpturetucsonorg Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Triangle L Art Ranch Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Dancesequences Inc	$10,000	1	16%
Humanity 360	$10,000	1	n/a
The Land With No Name Sanctuary	$10,000	1	6%
Bisbee Community Chorus	$10,000	1	n/a
Tucson Masterworks Chorale	$10,000	1	n/a
Arts Express	$10,000	1	1%
Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop	$10,000	1	n/a
Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson	$9,958	1	7%
Winding Road Theater Ensemble	$9,880	1	n/a
Tucson Pops Orchestra	$9,868	1	8%
Tucson Erotica	$9,820	1	n/a
Capoeira Arts Foundation Inc	$9,500	1	3%
Ocotillo Literary Endeavors Inc	$9,217	1	n/a
Bisbee Council on the Arts and Humanities	$8,500	1	3%
Leaps for Lives	$7,000	1	n/a
Tucson Botanical Gardens	$6,250	1	0%
North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance Inc	$6,000	1	n/a
Warehouse Arts Management Organization Inc	$5,000	1	3%
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra	$5,000	1	2%
Odaiko Sonora Rhythm Industry	$5,000	1	7%
Rogue Theater Incorporated	$5,000	1	28%
Boom Talk Media	$5,000	1	n/a
Kore Press Inc	$5,000	1	8%
Zogarts Consulting LLC	$5,000	1	n/a
International Indian Treaty Council Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Solar Culture Gallery Incorporated	$3,500	1	3%

Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 72.

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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.

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

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.

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About Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona

How much does Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona give?: Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona reported 43 itemized grants totaling $563,157, out of $1,082,214 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Public Safety & Disaster (42%), Education (1%).
Who are Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Live Theatre Workshop ($88k), Arizona Theatre Company ($78k), Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre Inc ($78k).
Does Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona, Arizona Humanities Council Inc.
Where is Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona based?: Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona is based in AZ.