· Community foundation
Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
To build a thriving southern arizona through philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 346 grants below total $11,813,119 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,337,274 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $524,155 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 $10k49 grants · $360k
- $10k–50k233 grants · $5.0M
- $50k–250k61 grants · $4.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $1,062,929 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC | $273,181 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $264,912 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $236,496 |
| TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $208,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PIMA ANIMAL CARE CENTER | $155,000 |
| LITERACY CONNECTS | $154,007 |
| TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART | $126,268 |
| THE INTENTIONAL MAN PROJECT | $125,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON | $124,814 |
| REACHOUT INC | $124,700 |
| ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST | $108,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $107,883 |
| TUCSON AUDUBON SOCIETY | $97,895 |
| SISTER JOSE WOMEN'S CENTER | $93,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
425 repeat relationships — 265 still active in FY2025, 160 since wound down; 72 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
University of Arizona Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $7.3M · revenue +109%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +36%- TCTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE8× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +119%
Funded once
- THTHE HOWARD V MOORE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $438k · revenue -89% · 95% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $172k
- TFTHE FUTURO MEDIA GROUPone grant, 2020 · $169k · revenue +6%
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.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
CORAZÓN-AZ's mission is to cultivate and foster a welcoming and safe community of Arizonans from vast faith traditions and beliefs, schools, and allied organizations; united in expanding our democracy, economic dignity, immigrant justice,…
One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans
Our mission is to lead, serve, empower and advocate for the Tucson urban American Indian community and others by providing culturally appropriate health, wellness and social services.
Arizona Forward brings business and civic leaders together to promote cooperative efforts to improve the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of our state and local regions.
AriSEIAs mission is to develop and support policies that create opportunities to advance Arizonas economy through solar energy and storage. AriSEIA advocates for sustainable job creation in deployment of solar and complementary…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
DRAZ is a non-profit law firm that assists Arizonans with disabilities to promote and protect their legal rights to independence, justice, and equality.
The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
613 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. 613 of the 759 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
- Who funds OS3 MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds TMC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds Reachout Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Pima Animal Care Center ↗
- Who funds Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Make Way For Books ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC ↗
- Who funds BISBEE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMAGO DEI MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YUMA LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA DE LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JOBPATH INC ↗
- Who funds STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD V MOORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CREATIVE BROADCASTING ↗
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: The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Community Food Bank Inc · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona · Social Venture Partners Tucson · Arizona Community Foundation · The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona · Angel Charity for Children Inc · Marshall Foundation · The David and Lura Lovell
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 Community Foundation for 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
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.