· Public charity
Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation
The purpose of the foundation is to support the local and international communities through donations to educational, community and international charities.
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.
The 4 grants below total $277,152 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $310,890 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $33,738 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $112,576 |
| WRIGHT FLIGHT INC | $56,288 |
| SISTER JOSE WOMENS SHELTER | $56,288 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $52,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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 Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $373k · revenue +109%- MWMake Way For Books5× · 2017–2021 · $338k · revenue +165%
- PCPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $193k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- YOYOUTH ON THEIR OWNgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $42k · revenue +138%
- PJPIMA JTEDone grant, 2017 · $42k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $40k · 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.
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…
Our mission is to lead, serve, empower and advocate for the Tucson urban American Indian community and others by providing culturally appropriate health, wellness and social services.
One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans
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…
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
Arizona youth partnership, (azyp), empowers youth to harness their strengths to live healthy and purposeful lives.
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…
Our mission is continually to improve the quality of life for the people we serve in collaboration with our diverse communities in a respectful, caring, culturally sensitive manner. The organization provides behavioral health services for…
CORAZÓN-AZ's mission is to cultivate and foster a welcoming and safe community of Arizonans from vast faith traditions and beliefs, schools, and allied organizations; united in expanding our democracy, economic dignity, immigrant justice,…
Sonoran Prevention Works mission is building a healthy Arizona with people who use drugs. We envision an Arizona where justice, autonomy & wellbeing are guaranteed for people who use drugs.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Southern Arizona and the most unlike its peers is Wright Flight Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 27 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 Make Way For Books ↗
- Who funds PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Sister Jose Women's Center ↗
- Who funds GAP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Old Pueblo Community Services ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF TUCSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN ↗
- Who funds REID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF TUCSON ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Del Mar Foundation Trust ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds CAREGIVER TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JOBPATH INC ↗
- Who funds RESPLANDOR INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Social Venture Partners Tucson · Marshall Foundation · Angel Charity for Children Inc · Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Community Food Bank 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 Rotary Club of Tucson 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.