· Private foundation
Lester & Millie Rosen 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $35,000 |
| EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOL | $35,000 |
| GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION | $35,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| TUCSON SYNCHRO INC | $20,000 |
| SISTER JOSES WOMENS CENTER | $20,000 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $15,000 |
| CASA DE LOS NINOS INC | $10,000 |
| AZ CHILDRENS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FELICIAS FARM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL NEEDS SOLUTIONS INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NATIVE SEEDS SOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERE | $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 (FY21–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- TSTUCSON SYNCHRO INC4× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +44% · 61% of their budget
- YOYOUTH ON THEIR OWN5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +39%
- TGTucson Girls Chorus Association Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2025 · $10k
- MVMOUNTAIN VIEW UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISone grant, 2025 · $10k
- LPLa Paloma Family Services Incone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.
We drive economic and political empowerment.
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.
Goodwill Industries of Southern Arizona works toward ensuring that all people have the opportunity to reach their potential and contribute to our community. Through quality, evidence-based, workforce development programs; Goodwill…
Codac provides tools, support and services to individuals, families, and communities so they may live with dignity, free from the harmful effects of mental illness, substance use disorders and trauma.
TMM's mission is to provide quality affordale housing, essential education, and stabiliity for qualifying low-income seniors, single parents, and veterans within the Greater Tucson area.
The Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona (CareAz) is a community-based organization dedicated to reducing the harmful effects of substance use disorder through comprehensive prevention, treatment, recovery, and reentry support.…
The Tucson Investigative Reporting Center educates and informs Southern Arizonans about the community challenges & unique culture of our borderlands through independent local journalism.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Los Ninos and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 24 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 Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds TUCSON SYNCHRO INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds CASA DE LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tucson Girls Chorus Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Watershed Management Group Inc ↗
- Who funds FELICIA'S FARM FKA IZI AZI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL NEEDS SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc ↗
- Who funds Sister Jose Women's Center ↗
- Who funds La Paloma Family Services 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 · Social Venture Partners Tucson · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Ginny L Clements Charitable Trust · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Community Food Bank Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc
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 Lester & Millie Rosen 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.