· Public charity
Science Foundation Arizona
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT OFFICE | $300,000 |
| ASU FOUNDATION | $31,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $331k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2020 · $591k
- K(KJZZKBAQ (THROUGH MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGES)2× · 2017–2018 · $59k
- YCYAVAPAI COLLEGE2× · 2017–2018 · $41k
Funded once
- ACARIZONA COMMERCE AUTHORITYone grant, 2021 · $125k
- SRSALT RIVER PIMA-MARICOPAone grant, 2017 · $95k
- FHFOUNTAIN HILLS USD FOUNTAIN HILLS HSone grant, 2017 · $95k
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.
4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · Share Our Strength · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Science Foundation Arizona funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Science Foundation Arizona. Bigger dots raise more.
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