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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 FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $277,152, the rows itemized in this filing. The $310,890 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $33,738 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$56,288
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$112,576
WRIGHT FLIGHT INC$56,288
SISTER JOSE WOMENS SHELTER$56,288
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION$52,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GAP MINISTRIES: $37k → 15%GAP MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $42k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 11 repeat orgs$399k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
15

Total granted

$1.8M
$342k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

82%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalPhilanthropyEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • University of Arizona Foundation
    8× · 2017–2025 · $373k · revenue +109%
  • MW
    Make Way For Books
    5× · 2017–2021 · $338k · revenue +165%
  • PC
    PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $193k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • PJ
    PIMA JTED
    one grant, 2017 · $42k
  • YO
    YOUTH ON THEIR OWNgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $42k · revenue +138%
  • OP
    Old Pueblo Community Services
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
American Indian Association of Tucson Inc

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.

Human Services
3
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights
4
United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc

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…

Philanthropy
5
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

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6
Arizona Youth Partnership

Arizona youth partnership, (azyp), empowers youth to harness their strengths to live healthy and purposeful lives.

Health
7
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
8
Southeastern Arizona Behavioral Health Services Inc

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…

Health
9
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
10
Corazon Az

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,…

Civil Rights
11
Sonoran Prevention Works

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.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Southern Arizona; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $634,593 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $193,288 · OtherPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCPIMA JTED: $41,862 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED: $40,355 · OtherInterfaith Community Services: $38,922 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $38,000 · Other+9 more: $132,362 · Other+9 moreUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $373,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona FoundationMake Way For Books: $337,943 · EducationMake Way For BooksWRIGHT FLIGHT INC: $91,432 · EducationWRIGHT FLIGHT INCSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $35,144 · EducationGAP MINISTRIES: $47,615 · Human ServicesYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $41,862 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX USA INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesSister Jose Women's Center: $56,288 · Housing & ShelterROTARY CLUB OF TUCSON FOUNDATION: $38,004 · Community ImprovementROTARY CLUB OF TUCSON: $12,239 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC: $43,000 · Youth DevelopmentOld Pueblo Community Services: $40,355 · Philanthropy
Other$1,119,382Education$837,519Human Services$99,977Housing & Shelter$56,288Community Improvement$50,243Youth Development$43,000Philanthropy$40,355

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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…Community Foundation …The Hs Lopez Family F…United Way of Tucson …Social Venture Partne…Marshall FoundationAngel Charity for Chi…Frederick Gardner Cot…Jewish Community Foun…Arizona Community Fou…Texas Instruments Fou…Community Food Bank I…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%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 · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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