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Lohse Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$28kHuman Services$27kCommunity Improvement$13kPhilanthropy$9kArts & Culture$9kHealth$8kEmployment$3kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$343k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING$9,000
GREATER TUCSON LEADERSHIP$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 10%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $9k → 15%YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $2k → 15%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$41k · 7 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
21

Total granted

$41k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+43%

Still filing today

86%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther

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

  • GT
    Greater Tucson Leadership Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +21%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +0%
  • JL
    Junior League of Tucson Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +496%

Funded once

  • AG
    ARIZONA GRANTMAKERS FORUM
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -77%
  • UO
    U OF A FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +94%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health
2
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
3
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
4
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

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5
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
6
University of Arizona Alumni Association

Cultivate lifelong connections, strengthen commitment to the university and inspire advocacy, engagement and giving.

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7
Arizona Wins

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…

Civil Rights
8
Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health
9
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights
10
Arizona Forward Association

Arizona Forward brings business and civic leaders together to promote cooperative efforts to improve the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of our state and local regions.

Community Improvement
11
Arizona Technology Council

To connect and strengthen arizona's technology industry and community, promote state and federal policies that enhance arizona's technology industry, deliver quality content and events to educate those working in arizona's expanding…

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12
Foundation for Junior Achievement of Arizona Inc

Foundation for Junior Achievement of Arizona's mission is to support Junior Achievement of Arizona, Inc.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YMCA FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $12,000 · OtherYMCA FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONAGreater Tucson Leadership Inc — $8,000 · OtherGreater Tucson Leadership IncARIZONA GRANTMAKERS FORUM — $5,000 · OtherARIZONA GRANTMAKERS FORUMU OF A FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherU OF A FOUNDATIONYMCA FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN AZ — $3,000 · OtherYMCA FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN AZTucson High Badger Foundation Inc — $2,500 · OtherTucson High Badger Foundation IncSOUTHERN AZ VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION — $2,000 · OtherNONPROFIT LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE — $2,000 · OtherTRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $1,500 · Other+4 more — $4,000 · Other+4 moreUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $8,500 · EducationUniversity of Arizona F…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSIT…CAMPUS RESEARCH CORPORATION — $2,500 · EducationCAMPUS RESEARCH CORPORA…EXPECT MORE ARIZONA — $2,500 · EducationEXPECT MORE ARIZONALITERACY CONNECTS — $1,000 · EducationPIMA JTED FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationPima Council on Aging — $9,000 · Human ServicesPima Council …YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $2,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SOUTH…Angel Charity for Children Inc — $1,000 · Human ServicesAngel Charity…PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC — $7,000 · HealthPLANNED P…TMC HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthTMC HEALT…CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER TUCSON — $5,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM — $2,500 · Arts & CultureJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $3,500 · PhilanthropyJunior League of Tucson Inc — $2,000 · Community ImprovementFriends of Pima Animal Care Center — $1,000 · Animals
Other$45,000Education$21,000Human Services$12,000Health$8,000Arts & Culture$7,500Philanthropy$3,500Community Improvement$2,000Animals$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYMCA FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $12,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Tucson Leadership Inc — $8,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA GRANTMAKERS FORUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER TUCSON — $5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPUS RESEARCH CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXPECT MORE ARIZONA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTucson High Badger Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJunior League of Tucson Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNONPROFIT LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Pima Animal Care Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAngel Charity for Children Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIMA JTED FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Absolon FoundationConnie Hillman Family…United Way of Tucson …Jewish Community Foun…Arizona Community Fou…Mulcahy FoundationThomas R Brown Family…The David and Lura Lo…The George Mason Gree…Tmc Health FoundationLucille E Williams Fo…
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Absolon Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Mulcahy Foundation · Thomas R Brown Family Foundation · The David and Lura Lovell · The George Mason Green and Lois C Green Foundation · Tmc Health Foundation · Lucille E Williams 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 Lohse 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lohse Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lohse Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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