· Private foundation
Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LUKE'S IN THE DESERT INC | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AZ FOUNDATIONARTHRITIS RESEARCH PROGRAM | $22,800 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC | $20,000 |
| MOBILE MEALS OF TUCSON INC | $20,000 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN (YOTO) | $18,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOME REPAIR PROJECTS OF ARIZONA | $15,000 |
| OUR FAMILY SERVICES INC NEW BEGINNINGS PROGRAM | $15,000 |
| TUCSON SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| PRIMAVERA FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION | $14,800 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS SOUTHERN ARIZONA CHAPTER | $13,800 |
| CASA DE LOS NINOS INC | $12,000 |
| TU NIDITIO CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $12,000 |
| CASA OF HARRISON COUNTY | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOTHERN ARIZONA | $10,000 |
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, $349k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 0% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- SLSt Lukes in the Desert Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +85%
- MMMOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $154k · revenue +87%
- TSTucson Symphony Society9× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -22%
- TCTEEN CHALLENGEone grant, 2023 · $20k
- COCIVIC ORCHESTRA OF TUCSONone grant, 2024 · $6k
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.
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
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.
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
Our mission is continually to improve the quality of life for the people we serve in collaboration with our diverse communities in a respectful, caring, culturally sensitive manner. The organization provides behavioral health services for…
To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.
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.
The mission of the chidrens advocacy center of southern arizona is to provide a safe, compassionate, healing environment for children who have been a victim or witnessed a crime. vision: provide each child with the safety they need to tell…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Los Ninos and the most unlike its peers is Marshall Depot Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 51 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
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 Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds St Lukes in the Desert Inc ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Tucson Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA DE LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds Community Home Repair Projects of Arizona ↗
- Who funds SQUARE AND COMPASS CHILDREN'S CLINIC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds Arizona Diaper Bank ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds COURTNEY'S COURAGE ↗
- Who funds Marshall Regional Arts Council ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC ↗
- Who funds Harrison County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds HANDI-DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT STRING POWER ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds Marshall Depot Inc ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sonoran Art Foundation Inc ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Angel Charity for Children Inc · The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation · Donald Pitt Family Foundation
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 Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation 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.
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% 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.