Arizona · Public charity
Scottsdale Arts
To create arts in diverse experiences that engage the community though the development of new and exciting cultural initiatives for the community; the encouragement of active participation and cooperation of the government, business, education and (continued on schedule o) private sectors; and the providing of quality management,…
- $151k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $132k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Scottsdale Arts funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $132k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $76k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $102k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $119k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $999k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $133k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $144k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $117k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scottsdale Museum of the West Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Scottsdale Artists' School Inc | $314,065 | 9 | 9% |
| Scottsdale International Film Festival Inc | $135,300 | 5 | 61% |
| Detour Company Theater Inc | $106,150 | 9 | 16% |
| Scottsdale Philharmonic Inc | $104,200 | 6 | 13% |
| Arizona Musicfest Inc | $97,453 | 7 | 3% |
| Greasepaint Youtheatre | $80,274 | 5 | n/a |
| Childsplay Inc | $69,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Kids in Focus | $52,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Desert Stages Inc | $43,404 | 4 | 3% |
Show all 38 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Scottsdale Arts supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Thunderbirds Charities · Scottsdale League for the Arts · The Herberger Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Steele Foundation Inc · Livingston Foundation · Margaret T Morris Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Silverman Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Scottsdale Arts
- How much does Scottsdale Arts give?
- Scottsdale Arts reported 16 itemized grants totaling $132,000, out of $151,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Scottsdale Arts fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (84%), Youth Development (7%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Scottsdale Arts's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Scottsdale Museum of the West Inc ($500k), Scottsdale Artists' School Inc ($314k), Scottsdale International Film Festival Inc ($135k).
- Does Scottsdale Arts fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Scottsdale Arts?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix.
- Where is Scottsdale Arts based?
- Scottsdale Arts is based in AZ.
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