· Private foundation
Eugene C and Wiletta F Denton Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $11,000 |
| RECENTER | $5,000 |
| EMERGE | $4,000 |
| MOBILE MEALS | $4,000 |
| ST FRANCIS SHELTER | $4,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN AZ | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY GARDENS OF TUCSON | $3,000 |
| WHITE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| FLOWING WELLS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOC | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 60% of Eugene C and Wiletta F Denton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 38%.
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 +63% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ICInterfaith Community Services3× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +63%
- CGCOMMUNITY GARDENS OF TUCSON INC4× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +117%
- SLSt Lukes in the Desert Inc5× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- ICINTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES MOBILE FOOD BANKone grant, 2023 · $10k
- CMCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF TUCSONone grant, 2023 · $4k
- MMMOBILE MEALS OF S AZone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.
TCAA's mission is to eliminate poverty and advance equitable communities. This mission is achieved through the delivery of comprehensive human services programs designed to improve housing stability, increase food security, improve health…
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Bridging the gap for arizona communities with nourishment for today and hope for tomorrow.
Our mission is to meet the basic need for fresh, healthy produce. We grow and share produce and educate and empower our community to grow healthy together.
To feed, clothe and empower those struggling with hunger, poverty homelessness in the city of Mesa, Arizona area, by serving over 70,000 hot evening meals per year. (Continued on Schedule O, Statement 2)
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
Our mission is to promote dignity and respect for aging, and to advocate for independence in the lives of Pima County's older adults and their families, now and for generations to come.
Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.
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…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 41 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 Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GARDENS OF TUCSON INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COORDINATING COUNCIL OF SE AZ ↗
- Who funds St Lukes in the Desert Inc ↗
- Who funds FELICIA'S FARM FKA IZI AZI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds St Francis Shelter ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds CAMP NOT-A-WHEEZE ↗
- Who funds Saavi Services for the Blind ↗
- Who funds ANGEL HEART PAJAMA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GABRIELS ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR NEUROSCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds AVIVA CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
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 · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Lucille E Williams Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · America's Charities · Elizabeth Read Taylor Foundation · Angel Charity for Children Inc · William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund US Bank National Association · Sundt Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eugene C and Wiletta F Denton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eugene C and Wiletta F Denton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Eugene C and Wiletta F Denton Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Eugene C and Wiletta F Denton Family Foundation 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.
Play a game based on Eugene C and Wiletta F Denton Family’s filings →