· Private foundation
David and Lura Lovell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of David and Lura Lovell Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Toledo Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year David and Lura Lovell Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 35 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEAD GUITAR | $400,000 |
| LIBERTY PARTNERSHIP COMMUNITY COUNC | $282,725 |
| LEAD GUITAR | $274,427 |
| YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $260,000 |
| EQUALITY NOW | $225,000 |
| SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| THE PODIUM SOCIETY | $150,000 |
| THE 19TH NEWS | $150,000 |
| THE CARTER CENTER INC | $148,000 |
| TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $125,000 |
| BOYS TO MEN TUCSON | $114,032 |
| THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| REEL MEDICINE MEDIA | $100,000 |
| THE OPED PROJECT PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE F | $50,000 |
| TRUSTEE OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
81 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA3× · 2019–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +22%
LEAD GUITAR3× · 2022–2024 · $888k · revenue +2% · 35% of their budget- LPLiberty Partnership Community Council3× · 2022–2024 · $665k · revenue +23% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- OCOREGON COLLAB FOR INTEGRATED HEALTHone grant, 2021 · $785k
- AYArizona Youth Partnershipone grant, 2021 · $438k · revenue -3%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $360k
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.
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
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…
Our mission is to provide exceptional health care with compassion.
Working to transform the region's economy through entrepreneurship and innovation.
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…
Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
How this is measured
100 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. 100 of the 170 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LEAD GUITAR ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds Liberty Partnership Community Council ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds Pima Council on Aging ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA HOSPITAL & HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds Equality Now Inc ↗
- Who funds TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Youth Partnership ↗
- Who funds ACT ONE ↗
- Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CURRENT ↗
- Who funds TMC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Podium Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Coalition To Transform Advanced Car ↗
- Who funds Southwest Folklife Alliance Inc ↗
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 · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Marshall Foundation · The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · The Stocker Foundation · Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona · The Gordon Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David and Lura Lovell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David and Lura Lovell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
- Health Care for All Inc: 29% of income from government
- Metrowest Legal Services Inc: 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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