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Graesser Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON | $14,000 |
| NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| SAVMA | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CIVIC ORCHESTRA OF TUCSON | $4,000 |
| NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $49k) 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 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 +109% since the first grant, against +63% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
University of Arizona Foundation5× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +109%- TCTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON2× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +113%
- NDNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC2× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- CGCOMMUNITY GARDENS OF TUCSON INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +78%
- OPOld Pueblo Community Servicesgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +27%
- EEEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +38%
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.
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…
Arizona youth partnership, (azyp), empowers youth to harness their strengths to live healthy and purposeful lives.
Working to transform the region's economy through entrepreneurship and innovation.
Our vision is a community where every child receives a high-quality education from birth to career, every adult has the opportunity to thrive financailly and in the workplace, and every older person can retire and age with dignity and…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
To advocate for and act on education improvements that advance the quality of life for all arizonans.
To help young people stay in school and to acquire the academic, personal, leadership, and vocational skills they will need to be successful upon graduation.
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans
The Tucson Metro Chamber is a membership-based business advocacy and community development organization that represents 1,500 businesses employing more than 160,000 employees in Tucson and Pima County. The Tucson Metro Chamber is committed…
Cultivate lifelong connections, strengthen commitment to the university and inspire advocacy, engagement and giving.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is I Am You 360. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 26 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 University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GARDENS OF TUCSON INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON ↗
- Who funds Old Pueblo Community Services ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROWTH PARTNERS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds Greater Tucson Leadership Inc ↗
- Who funds PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS TUCSON ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIPSA Z ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCA ↗
- Who funds WOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Diaper Bank ↗
- Who funds St Lukes in the Desert Inc ↗
- Who funds I Am You 360 ↗
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 · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Absolon Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Martin & Hildegard Gluck Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Vance Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Martha R Neff Foundation · Mulcahy Foundation · Diamond 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 Graesser 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.
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.
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