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Community Foundation for Southern Arizona

To build a thriving southern arizona through philanthropy.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
346
Grants FY2025still arriving
31
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$18MHuman Services$10.0MHealth$9.3MPhilanthropy$7.6MArts & Culture$7.0MInternational$6.7MAnimals$5.1MReligion$3.6MOther$0
02FY2025 · 346 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 346 grants below total $11,813,119, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,337,274 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $524,155 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
$20,000
Median grant
31
States reached
$220M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%3RD DECADE INC: $57k → 15%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $46k → 15%CONSTRUYENDO CIRCULES DE PAZ-CONSTR: $51k → 19%CONSTRUYENDO CIRCULES DE PAZ: $42k → 19%SANTA CRUZ COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $35k → 19%EARN TO LEARN: $40k → 15%LA POSADA AT PARK CENTRE INC: $50k → 15%4FREEDOM INC: $50k → 15%AYUDA SMILES: $50k → 15%MORE THAN A BED: $50k → 15%GAP MINISTRIES: $41k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $168k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $50k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%ABILITY DOGS OF ARIZONA: $40k → 15%HANDI-DOGS INC: $40k → 15%HANDI-DOGS INC: $37k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $33k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVIC: $41k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC: $525k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABU: $430k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $236k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABU: $213k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOM ABUSE: $209k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $126k → 15%SOUTHERN ARIZONA SENIOR PRIDE: $66k → 15%SOUTHERN ARIZONA SENIOR PRIDE: $61k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABU: $57k → 15%CHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $53k → 15%SOUTHERN ARIZONA SENIOR PRIDE: $52k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABU: $49k → 15%SOUTHERN ARIZONA SENIOR PRIDE: $44k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $34k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $150k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $112k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $107k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $90k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $77k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $74k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUCSON INC: $53k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUCSON INC: $45k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUCSON INC: $39k → 15%ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $77k → 15%ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $53k → 15%ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $46k → 15%ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $42k → 15%SPECIAL NEEDS SOLUTIONS INC: $36k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$75M · 425 repeat orgs$7.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

425
246

Total granted

$75M
$6.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+7%

Still filing today

84%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • University of Arizona Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.3M · revenue +109%
  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +36%
  • TC
    TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HOWARD V MOORE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $438k · revenue -89% · 95% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $172k
  • TF
    THE FUTURO MEDIA GROUP
    one grant, 2020 · $169k · revenue +6%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Arizona Wins

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…

Civil Rights
3
Pro-Choice Arizona

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…

Health
4
Corazon Az

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,…

Civil Rights
5
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights
6
The Dons of Arizona
Education
7
Arizona Forward Association

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.

Community Improvement
8
American Indian Association of Tucson Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Arizona Solar Energy Industries Assoc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
11
Disability Rights Arizona

DRAZ is a non-profit law firm that assists Arizonans with disabilities to promote and protect their legal rights to independence, justice, and equality.

Civil Rights
12
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Los Ninos; 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.
04the grantee network

614 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 614 of the 759 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

41
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
147
Early backer (in before they grew)
595/614
Grantees still filing
376/614
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Food Bank Inc: $2,076,255 · OtherCommunity Food Bank IncOS3 MOVEMENT: $1,431,911 · Other+114 more: $29,073,998 · Other+114 moreUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $7,300,221 · EducationUniversity of Arizon…Make Way For Books: $692,080 · EducationMake Way For BooksLITERACY CONNECTS: $664,867 · EducationEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $572,659 · EducationIMAGO DEI MIDDLE SCHOOL: $551,250 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $547,627 · EducationSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC: $499,500 · Education+9 more: $1,975,677 · Education+9 moreBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $3,669,697 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AME…EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyEL PASO COM…EL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $482,788 · PhilanthropyEL RIO FOUN…THE HOWARD V MOORE FOUNDATION: $437,763 · PhilanthropyTHE HOWARD …INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $373,554 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $340,931 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $292,872 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $283,458 · Philanthropy+2 more: $369,618 · PhilanthropyTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $1,495,207 · Human ServicesTUCSON CE…YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $972,083 · Human ServicesYOUTH ON …YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $390,500 · Human ServicesYMCA OF S…Pima Council on Aging: $372,657 · Human ServicesPima Coun…ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $329,274 · Human ServicesTHE COMMONS-CENTER FOR FOOD SECURITY & SUSTAINABILITY: $275,000 · Human ServicesSouthern Arizona Senior Pride: $221,922 · Human Services+15 more: $2,287,440 · Human Services+15 moreCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $3,103,158 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $485,475 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $450,000 · InternationalGIVE2ASIA: $304,000 · InternationalUS-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership: $238,092 · International+3 more: $443,796 · InternationalTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC: $632,962 · Arts & CultureYUMA LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $525,770 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CREATIVE BROADCASTING: $406,284 · Arts & CultureTucson Symphony Society: $354,585 · Arts & CultureARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $351,801 · Arts & CultureTucson Girls Chorus Association Inc: $324,500 · Arts & CultureArizona Theatre Company: $304,489 · Arts & CultureThe Intentional Man Project DBA Camp Lost Boys: $275,000 · Arts & CultureLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC: $175,859 · Arts & CultureTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON: $173,145 · Arts & CultureTHE FUTURO MEDIA GROUP: $168,752 · Arts & CultureSplinter Art and Community Fund: $164,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF TUCSON'S BIRTHPLACE: $159,800 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $248,750 · Arts & CultureTMC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,204,818 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $456,894 · HealthSouthern Arizona AIDS Foundation: $401,181 · HealthTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $363,750 · HealthAMISTAD Y SALUD: $284,500 · HealthYouth Eastside Services: $260,000 · HealthTucson Interfaith HIVAIDS Network: $226,321 · HealthMARIPOSA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $186,864 · HealthBanner Health Foundation: $186,069 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC: $151,000 · HealthMEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE: $149,341 · Health+2 more: $244,932 · Health
Other$32,582,164Education$12,803,881Philanthropy$7,250,681Human Services$6,344,083International$5,024,521Arts & Culture$4,266,197Health$4,115,670

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $7,300,221 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $3,669,697 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $3,103,158 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $2,076,255 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $1,495,207 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetOS3 MOVEMENT: $1,431,911 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetTMC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,204,818 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $972,083 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetHumane Society of Southern Arizona: $867,995 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetReachout Inc: $820,242 over 7y, 30% of budgetFriends of Pima Animal Care Center: $798,198 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetCatholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc: $783,375 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetThe Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona: $756,028 over 8y, 10% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $750,796 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetMake Way For Books: $692,080 over 9y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC: $689,223 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetBISBEE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $682,715 over 9y, 61% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $664,867 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC: $632,962 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC: $585,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $572,659 over 9y, 11% of budgetIMAGO DEI MIDDLE SCHOOL: $551,250 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $547,627 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYUMA LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $525,770 over 6y, 95% of budgetCASA DE LOS NINOS: $508,721 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $502,000 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetJOBPATH INC: $500,832 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC: $499,500 over 9y, 11% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $485,475 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $482,788 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED: $474,917 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $456,894 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $450,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD V MOORE FOUNDATION: $437,763 over 1y, 95% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $414,132 over 9y, 8.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CREATIVE BROADCASTING: $406,284 over 8y, 11% of budgetSouthern Arizona AIDS Foundation: $401,181 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $390,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetJUNIOR STATE OF AMERICA: $389,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $373,554 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPima Council on Aging: $372,657 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetOur Family Services Inc: $371,700 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $365,324 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $363,750 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetTucson Symphony Society: $354,585 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $351,801 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetInterfaith Community Services: $346,158 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCATALINA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $345,207 over 9y, 4.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

The Hs Lopez Family F…United Way of Tucson …Community Food Bank I…Connie Hillman Family…Jewish Community Foun…Arts Foundation for T…Social Venture Partne…Arizona Community Fou…The Womens Foundation…Angel Charity for Chi…Marshall FoundationThe David and Lura Lo…
The Hs Lopez Family FoundationAZ176.2× affinity101 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Foundation for Southern Arizona funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation for Southern Arizona. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
64report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 759 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home