· 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,…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $132,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $151,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,000 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIDS IN FOCUS | $10,000 |
| THE WALTER HIVE | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA MUSICFEST | $10,000 |
| CHILDSPLAY INC | $10,000 |
| GREASEPAINT YOUTH THEATER | $10,000 |
| SCOTTSDALE ARTISTS' SCHOOL INC | $10,000 |
| ACT ONE ARIZONA | $8,500 |
| CENTRAL ARIZONA FLUTE ENSEMBLE | $8,000 |
| DETOUR COMPANY THEATRE | $7,500 |
| B3 THEATRE INC | $7,500 |
| DESERT FOOTHILLS EVENTS | $7,500 |
| FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| YES AND PRODUCTIONS | $6,500 |
| MOVEMENT SOURCE INC | $6,500 |
| THE BRIDGE INITIATIVE | $6,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SASCOTTSDALE ARTISTS' SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $314k · revenue +8%
- DCDETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +8%
- SPSCOTTSDALE PHILHARMONIC INC6× · 2017–2023 · $104k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- SMSCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INCone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -35%
- SHSCOTTSDALE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $11k
- OTOLD TOWN SCOTTSDALE RODEO MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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,…
Theatre company to educate and entertain through performances of works of classical theatre
Decidedly off the beaten path, Stray Cat is indie theatre at its best: quirky, edgy and irreverent. Stray Cat Theatre scratches the Valley's itch for a visceral, provocative theatre experience for culture-savvy cats who crave something…
The Sedona Symphony is committed to enriching the quality of life of our Northern Arizona community through the power of live orchestral music that educates, entertains, and inspires. From timeless classics to bold contemporary works, the…
Our mission is to provide a truly unique performing arts experience to the West Valley. Through high quality productions in the areas of music, dance, and theatre, we can empower artists of all ages to pursue their dreams in the performing…
The four seasons orchestra offers classical music to the general public. the orchestra has performed chamber music and concerts at various venues, including asus kerr cultural center.
Arizona Theatre Matters (ATM) shapes theatre from the substance of accessibility itself, ensuring storytelling reaches everyoneregardless of ability, income, or location. By making accessibility an artistic foundation, we create theatre…
Southern Arizona Performing Arts Company (SAPAC) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization of unified local artists committed to bringing high-quality theatrical performance to the Tucson area. We believe in the power theater has to entertain,…
Arizona opera elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music - cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home.
ProMusica Arizona enriches lives in the Greater Phoenix area, with focus on the North Valley, through innovative, joint performances of its multigenerational Chorale and Orchestra.
Raise awareness on Indian Classical performing arts by conducting workshops lecture demostrations and presenting concerts that is open to all audience
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Symphony Association and the most unlike its peers is Don Bluth Front Row Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE ARTISTS' SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Scottsdale International Film Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds DETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE PHILHARMONIC INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDSPLAY INC ↗
- Who funds Kids in Focus ↗
- Who funds Desert Stages Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE TRAINING & REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds DON BLUTH FRONT ROW THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ACT ONE ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE WALTER HIVE ↗
- Who funds B3 THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds JAZZ IN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds Musica Nova Inc ↗
- Who funds IRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds RISING YOUTH THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CATTLE TRACK ARTS AND PRESERVATION ↗
- Who funds Scottsdale Gallery Association ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE BALLET FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Scottsdale Arts 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.