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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.

$311k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$277k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$56,288
Largest grant, FY2025
$112,576
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$277k25%
FY20244$171k100%
FY20234$335k0%
FY20224$469k50%
FY20213$109k33%
FY20206$185k33%
FY20199$230k78%
FY20187$232k43%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$996kHuman Services$148kHousing & Shelter$97kYouth Development$96kArts & Culture$79kCommunity Improvement$38kPublic Safety & Disaster$38kScience & Tech$35kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Arizona Foundation$373,00080%
Make Way For Books$337,94356%
Pima Community College Foundation Inc$193,28822%
Wright Flight Inc$91,432216%
Sister Jose Women's Center$56,28811%
Gap Ministries$47,61520%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson Inc$43,00030%
Youth on Their Own$41,86211%
Old Pueblo Community Services$40,35510%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Arizona Incorporated$40,35512%
Interfaith Community Services$38,92220%
Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation$38,00427%
Future Farmers of America State Associations & Local Chapter$37,1501n/a
Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN$35,14414%
Reid Park Zoological Society$30,13610%
Rotary Club of Tucson$12,23922%
Rotary Club of Del Mar Foundation Trust$11,000112%
Shelterbox USA Inc$10,50010%
The Haven$10,4651n/a
Forgotten Children$10,000113%
YWCA of Southern Arizona$9,28810%
Caregiver Training Institute$9,28711%
Jobpath Inc$8,78611%
Resplandor International$6,2501n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($714k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $373,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMake Way For Books: $337,943 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetPima Community College Foundation Inc: $193,288 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWright Flight Inc: $91,432 over 2y, 16% of budgetSister Jose Women's Center: $56,288 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGap Ministries: $47,615 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Tucson Inc: $43,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYouth on Their Own: $41,862 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOld Pueblo Community Services: $40,355 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Arizona Incorporated: $40,355 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetInterfaith Community Services: $38,922 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRotary Club of Tucson Foundation: $38,004 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $35,144 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetReid Park Zoological Society: $30,136 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRotary Club of Tucson: $12,239 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRotary Club of Del Mar Foundation Trust: $11,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetShelterbox USA Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetForgotten Children: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetYWCA of Southern Arizona: $9,288 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCaregiver Training Institute: $9,287 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJobpath Inc: $8,786 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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.

Connie Hillman Family FoundationAZ32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation

How much does Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation give?
Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation reported 4 itemized grants totaling $277,152, out of $310,890 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Human Services (7%), Housing & Shelter (4%).
Who are Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Arizona Foundation ($373k), Make Way For Books ($338k), Pima Community College Foundation Inc ($193k).
Does Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Connie Hillman Family Foundation, Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, The Hs Lopez Family Foundation.
Where is Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation based?
Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation is based in AZ.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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