· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $35,000 |
| EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOL | $35,000 |
| GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION | $35,000 |
| SISTER JOSES WOMENS CENTER | $20,000 |
| TUCSON SYNCHRO INC | $20,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $15,000 |
| THERAPUTIC RANCH FOR ANIMALS KIDS | $10,000 |
| FELICIAS FARM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HARD HITTERS FOR THE KINGDOM INC | $10,000 |
| CASA DE LOS NINOS INC | $10,000 |
| AZ CHILDRENS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| NATIVE SEEDS SOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERE | $10,000 |
| TUCSON GIRLS CHORUS | $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 (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 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 +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 24 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 Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds TUCSON SYNCHRO INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELICIA'S FARM FKA IZI AZI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA DE LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds Tucson Girls Chorus Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Watershed Management Group Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED ↗
- Who funds Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL NEEDS SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Sister Jose Women's Center ↗
- Who funds La Paloma Family Services 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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lester & Millie Rosen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lester & Millie Rosen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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