· Public charity
Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance Inc
The Organization is the local coordinating entity of the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area and serves to connect people to the cultural and historic foundations and the living landscapes of the Santa Cruz Valley and actively works towards its long-term stewardship.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $171,938 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $579,518 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $407,580 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUCSON CITY OF GASTRONOMY | $30,000 |
| IRONWOOD TREE EXPERIENCE | $29,306 |
| BORDER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $20,746 |
| COALITION FOR SONORAN DESERT PROTEC | $20,119 |
| FRIENDS OF THE TUBAC PRESIDIO MUSEU | $19,971 |
| TUCSON AUDUBON SOCIETY | $18,742 |
| TUCSON HISTORIC PRESERVATION FDN | $9,634 |
| SONORAN INSTITUTE | $9,420 |
| STRATFORD ARTWORKS | $8,000 |
| TUBAC NATURE CENTER | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
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.
Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico
The Arts Foundation mission is to advance artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture in our region.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The mission of the presidio san agustin del tucson trust is to promote, preserve and interpret the origins and history of tucson
Natural Resource Stewardship
The Tucson Investigative Reporting Center educates and informs Southern Arizonans about the community challenges & unique culture of our borderlands through independent local journalism.
Through the operation of museums and support of historic preservation we will attempt to interpret and conserve our historical and cultural heritage. Through the presentation and support of cultural and educational programs we will attempt…
Arizona Forward brings business and civic leaders together to promote cooperative efforts to improve the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of our state and local regions.
Our focus is to work with groups and individuals who are in the arts, humanities, education and historic preservation with goals designed to enhance Bisbees unique place in the history of the Southwest, the contribution made to Bisbees…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection and the most unlike its peers is The Sonoran Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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.
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 TUCSON CITY OF GASTRONOMY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection ↗
- Who funds Border Community Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Tubac Presidio and Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Tucson Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds TUCSON HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Stratford Art Works Inc ↗
- Who funds TUBAC NATURE CENTER ↗
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 · Southwest Foundation for Education & Historical Preservation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance Inc 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.
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