· Community foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona
Jewish philanthropies of southern arizona (jpsa) is committed to achieving the full potential of jewish philanthropy, now and for future generations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $204k
- $10k–50k71 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+15 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS | $2,000,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZO | $1,989,406 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $1,457,813 |
| TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,322,707 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CEN | $750,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FDN | $603,772 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $461,000 |
| TUCSON HEBREW ACADEMY | $399,011 |
| EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER | $300,000 |
| THE CONVERSATION US | $300,000 |
| GLOBAL INVESTMENT FDN FOR TOMORROW | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA HILLEL FOUNDA | $274,735 |
| SOUTHERN ARIZONA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $255,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ENDOWMENT ASSO | $250,000 |
| ARIZONA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $250,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +17% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
124 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 36 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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× · 2020–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +54%- TJTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +99%
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT3× · 2020–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +102%
Funded once
- IIKARone grant, 2023 · $182k
- BFBETTERTOGETHER FOREVERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +58%
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2021 · $75k
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Arizona Inc and the most unlike its peers is Flowing Wells Educational Foundation. 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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
219 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. 219 of the 257 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TUCSON HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY TO IMPROVE DIAGNOSIS IN MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS TUCSON ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOR MEDICINES ACCESS & KNOWLEDGE (I-MAK) INC ↗
- Who funds UC LAW SF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL INVESTMENT FOUNDATION FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ARIZONA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arizona Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE CONVERSATION US INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER PRESCOTT ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds Arizona Jewish Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE DRAWING STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds SCULPTURETUCSONORG INC ↗
- Who funds Step Up To Justice ↗
- Who funds REID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
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 · The David and Lura Lovell · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Marshall Foundation · Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation · Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona · Angel Charity for Children Inc · Absolon 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 Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Way Station Inc — 1% 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.