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Margaret E Mooney Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$3.7MArts & Culture$2.9MHuman Services$1.6MHealth$1.4MPhilanthropy$600kYouth Development$550kAnimals$420kInternational$140kEnvironment$100kOther$3.1M
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $405k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$230,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EL RIO HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION$500,000
LITERACY CONNECTS$250,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON$230,000
UNITED WAY OF TUCSON AND SO AZ$175,000
ARIZONA THEATER COMPANY$2,500
ARIZONA OPERA COMPANY$1,000
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 (FY18–22, $1.6M) 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%HOMICIDE SURVIVORS INC: $25k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $140k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $125k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $100k → 15%YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $352k → 15%YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $240k → 15%YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $130k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUS: $250k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUS: $220k → 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 20 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
21

Total granted

$13M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+17%

Still filing today

75%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionOther

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 Foundation
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +109%
  • TH
    TMC HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +390% · 47% of their budget
  • TC
    TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON
    4× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +42%
  • TD
    THE DRAWING STUDIO INC
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -37% · 32% of their budget
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA
    one grant, 2019 · $140k · revenue +22%

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
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block Inc

The tucson museum of art and historic block connects art to life through meaningful and engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.

Arts & Culture
3
Cala Alliance

CelebracinArtstica de lasAmricas(CALA)Alliancecollaborates with artists and arts organizations to nurture artistic talent, focusing onartistsfrom the Latin American diaspora.Through innovative artist residencies, commissions, community…

Arts & Culture
4
Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
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
Tucson Symphony Society

The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.

Arts & Culture
7
Central Arts Alliance

Phoenix Center for the Arts provides arts and culture opportunities for all through education, programming and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
8
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights
9
Degrazia Foundation Inc
Unclassified
10
Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum
—
11
Tucson Investigative Reporting Center Inc

The Tucson Investigative Reporting Center educates and informs Southern Arizonans about the community challenges & unique culture of our borderlands through independent local journalism.

Animals
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Amerind Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyTucson Cultural & Civic Ins…University Research SupportCommunity Health & Wellness…Youth Education & Developme…Affordable Housing & Reside…Southern Arizona Business A…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%0%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr12%41%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%7%<5yr15%0%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr19%12%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr13%52%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
14%
582/4,262

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.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 41 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Arizona Foundation — $2,607,300 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Founda…LITERACY CONNECTS — $969,910 · EducationLITERACY CONNECTS+1 more — $115,000 · EducationHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $815,136 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYUNITED WAY OF TUCSON AND SO AZ — $808,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF TUCSON AND SO A…MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN AZ — $500,000 · OtherMOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN AZThe Amerind Foundation Inc — $375,000 · OtherThe Amerind Foundation IncREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $420,000 · OtherREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA — $140,000 · Other+10 more — $746,000 · Other+10 moreTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON — $1,338,000 · Arts & CultureTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSE…Stratford Art Works Inc — $698,000 · Arts & CultureStratford Art Works In…THE DRAWING STUDIO INC — $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DRAWING STUDIO INCArizona Theatre Company — $169,850 · Arts & CultureArizona Theatre Compan…Sonoran Art Foundation Inc — $127,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $262,909 · Arts & Culture+7 moreYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $722,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SOUT…TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE — $470,000 · Human ServicesTUCSON CENTE…Pima Council on Aging — $264,918 · Human ServicesPima Council…EASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Human ServicesEASTERSEALS …+1 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesTMC HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,400,000 · HealthTMC HEALTH …+1 more — $26,114 · HealthEL RIO FOUNDATION INC — $600,000 · PhilanthropyGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentCASA DE LOS NINOS — $50,000 · Youth Development
Education$3,692,210Other$3,804,136Arts & Culture$2,895,759Human Services$1,581,918Health$1,426,114Philanthropy$600,000Youth Development$550,000

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 budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $2,607,300 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTMC HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,400,000 over 4y, 47% of budgetTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON — $1,338,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS — $969,910 over 4y, 19% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $722,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetStratford Art Works Inc — $698,000 over 8y, 64% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC — $600,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE — $470,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $420,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetThe Amerind Foundation Inc — $375,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE DRAWING STUDIO INC — $300,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetPima Council on Aging — $264,918 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetArizona Theatre Company — $169,850 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA — $140,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSonoran Art Foundation Inc — $127,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTUCSONS JANUARY 8TH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTucson Amateur Astronomy Association Incorporated — $100,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetEASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA OPERA COMPANY — $61,250 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetACT ONE — $60,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $51,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCASA DE LOS NINOS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLive Theatre Workshop — $28,559 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSouthern Arizona AIDS Foundation — $26,114 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHomicide Survivors Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CREATIVE BROADCASTING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetArts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 …Connie Hillman Family…The Hs Lopez Family F…Arizona Community Fou…Jewish Community Foun…United Way of Tucson …Marshall FoundationThe Stocker FoundationAbsolon FoundationArts Foundation for T…Southwest Foundation …Texas Instruments Fou…
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ62× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Marshall Foundation · The Stocker Foundation · Absolon Foundation · Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona · Southwest Foundation for Education & Historical Preservation · Texas Instruments 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 Margaret E Mooney 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 Margaret E Mooney Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Margaret E Mooney 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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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