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Mulcahy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SOUTHERN AZ CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| TUCSON JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| ASU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INVISIBLE THEATRE | $5,000 |
| AZ IMPACT FOR GOOD | $2,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $85k) 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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 Foundation2× · 2019–2025 · $103k · revenue +20%- TJTUCSON JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL COMMITTEE3× · 2023–2025 · $30k
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- UOU OF A FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
Southern Arizona AIDS Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue +65%- TCTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -32%
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.
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…
Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.
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…
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.
Science foundation arizona's mission is to diversify arizona's economy by investing in scientific and engineering research linked to industry needs and investing in education to create a work force with 21st centrury skills.
The mission of startupaz is to build a local community of entrepreneurs that want to make a positive impact in arizona.
The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.
Cultivate lifelong connections, strengthen commitment to the university and inspire advocacy, engagement and giving.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Az Impact for Good and the most unlike its peers is Arizona Daily Star Sportsmens Fund 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 40 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 University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON ↗
- Who funds City Center for Collaborative Learning ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CLINICS FOR REHABILITATIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Daily Star Sportsmens Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
- Who funds AZ IMPACT FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Angel Charity for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN AZ CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CTR INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIPSA Z ↗
- Who funds Sonoran Art Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA GRANTMAKERS FORUM ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Tucson Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds VIVA PIMA ↗
- Who funds THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPASS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds INVISIBLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
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 · Arizona Community Foundation · Absolon Foundation · Marshall Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Margaret E Mooney Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Stocker Foundation · Angel Charity for Children Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle 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 Mulcahy 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.
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% 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.
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