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Dusk Charities Inc

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.

$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$53kRecreation & Sports$46kCommunity Improvement$7kEducation$2kHuman Services$400
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPL SPORTS INC$25,000
BPS FOUNDATION$5,000
RIALTO THEATRE FOUNDATION$3,500
TUCSON CONQUISTADORES FOUNDATION$2,500
FOX TUCSON THEATER FOUNDATION$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YMCA: $400 → 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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$75k · 7 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$75k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+14%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsReligionCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TC
    TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON
    2× · 2018–2019 · $31k · revenue +50%
  • RT
    RIALTO THEATRE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $21k · revenue +520%
  • DT
    DOWNTOWN TUCSON PARTNERSHIP
    2× · 2019–2022 · $5k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • AP
    ARMORY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • VO
    Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association
    one grant, 2022 · $400 · revenue +14%
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
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 Conquistadores Inc

The Tucson Conquistadores and its members are dedicated to continuing the tradition of professional golf in Tucson, and promoting interest in amateur athletics among youth, particularly disadvantaged and physically and mentally challenged…

Community Improvement
3
Tucson Parks Foundation Endowment

Support tucson parks foundation, which assists city of tucson parks and recreation department.

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4
Tucson Presidio Trust for Historic Preservation

The mission of the presidio san agustin del tucson trust is to promote, preserve and interpret the origins and history of tucson

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5
Tucson Symphony Society

The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.

Arts & Culture
6
Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block Inc

The tucson museum of art and historic block connects art to life through meaningful and engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.

Arts & Culture
7
Arizona Theatre Company

ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.

Arts & Culture
8
Tucson Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation
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9
Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation

The fox tucson theatre enlivens tucson, fostering community growth and connections by shaping exceptional, live arts experiences in a celebrated setting.

Arts & Culture
10
Tucson Youth Football & Spirit Federation Inc

Tyfsf is a leader in youth sports and the advocate for the advancement of sportsmanship, competitive spirit and recreation by providing educational and developmental opportunities, generating and sharing knowledge with the community, and…

Recreation & Sports
11
Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation

The tucson historic perservation (thpf) misson is to preserve tucson's unique architectural environment. thpf focuses on projects and programs that preserve our community's historic architecture and advance our local understanding of and…

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12
Tucson Pops Orchestra

Free performances of good music by professional musicians for audiences at the city parks.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tucson Children's Museum Inc Dba Children's Museum Tucson; the most unlike its peers is Spl Sports Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON: $31,300 · Arts & CultureTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TU…RIALTO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $20,500 · Arts & CultureRIALTO THEATRE FOUNDATIONSPL SPORTS INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsSPL SPORTS INCBPS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherBPS FOUNDATIONFC TUCSON YOUTH SOCCER CLUB: $3,545 · OtherFC TUCSON YOUTH…ARMORY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · OtherARMORY PARK NEI…TUCSON PARKS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherTUCSON PARKS FO…FOX TUCSON THEATER FOUNDATION: $1,500 · OtherFOX TUCSON THEA…Tucson Conquistadores Foundation: $10,000 · ReligionTucson Con…DOWNTOWN TUCSON PARTNERSHIP: $4,500 · Community ImprovementFLAGSTAFF ARTS AND LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC: $2,179 · EducationValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $400 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$51,800Recreation & Sports$25,000Other$15,045Religion$10,000Community Improvement$4,500Education$2,179Human Services$400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON: $31,300 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSPL SPORTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRIALTO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTucson Conquistadores Foundation: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDOWNTOWN TUCSON PARTNERSHIP: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTUCSON PARKS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFLAGSTAFF ARTS AND LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC: $2,179 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $400 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Dusk Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dusk Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Dusk Charities Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Dusk Charities Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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