· Private foundation
Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MOBILE MEALS OF TUCSON INC | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK 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 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOTHERN ARIZONA | $10,000 |
| COURTNEY'S COURAGE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 51 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 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 TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds Marshall Regional Arts Council ↗
- Who funds COURTNEY'S COURAGE ↗
- 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 HANDI-DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds Harrison County Historical Society ↗
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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