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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 FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.6MYouth Development$140kHuman Services$106kHealth$30kCrime & Legal$26kPhilanthropy$14k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $132,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $151,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,000 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WALTER HIVE$10,000
CHILDSPLAY INC$10,000
GREASEPAINT YOUTH THEATER$10,000
KIDS IN FOCUS$10,000
ARIZONA MUSICFEST$10,000
SCOTTSDALE ARTISTS' SCHOOL INC$10,000
ACT ONE ARIZONA$8,500
CENTRAL ARIZONA FLUTE ENSEMBLE$8,000
DETOUR COMPANY THEATRE$7,500
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION$7,500
B3 THEATRE INC$7,500
DESERT FOOTHILLS EVENTS$7,500
MOVEMENT SOURCE INC$6,500
THE BRIDGE INITIATIVE$6,500
YES AND PRODUCTIONS$6,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DETOUR COMPANY THEATRE: $10k → 11%DETOUR COMPANY THEATRE: $10k → 11%DETOUR COMPANY THEATRE: $10k → 11%DETOUR COMPANY THEATRE: $5k → 11%SCOTTSDALE TRAINING AND REHABILITATION SERVICES: $10k → 11%SCOTTSDALE TRAINING AND REHABILITATION SERVICES: $10k → 11%SCOTTSDALE TRAINING AND REHABILITATION SERVICES: $10k → 11%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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 21 repeat orgs$598k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
12

Total granted

$1.3M
$560k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+9%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SA
    SCOTTSDALE ARTISTS' SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $314k · revenue +8%
  • DC
    DETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +8%
  • SP
    SCOTTSDALE PHILHARMONIC INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $104k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • SM
    SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -35%
  • SH
    SCOTTSDALE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
  • OT
    OLD TOWN SCOTTSDALE RODEO MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
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
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,…

Arts & Culture
2
Phoenix Performing Arts Inc
Arts & Culture
3
Southwest Shakespeare Company Inc

Theatre company to educate and entertain through performances of works of classical theatre

Arts & Culture
4
Triad Performing Arts of Arizona

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Stray Cat 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…

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6
Sedona Symphony

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Abt Performing Arts Association Inc

ABT Performing Arts Association enriches lives through the power of the performingarts by producing live theatre and other high-quality entertainment.

Arts & Culture
8
Four Seasons Orchestra

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Arizona Opera Company

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Arizona Theater Matters

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Southern Arizona Performing Arts Company

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,…

Arts & Culture
12
Arts Express

By intgrating performing arts education programs and musical theatre productions, art express theatre opens up the world of the arts to all ages. it serves over 25,000 people annually thorugh a continuum of introductory to advance…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Symphony Association; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureSCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INCSCOTTSDALE ARTISTS' SCHOOL INC: $314,065 · Arts & CultureSCOTTSDALE ARTISTS' SCHOOL INCSCOTTSDALE PHILHARMONIC INC: $104,200 · Arts & CultureSCOTTSDALE PHILHARMONIC INCARIZONA MUSICFEST INC: $97,453 · Arts & CultureARIZONA MUSICFEST INCCHILDSPLAY INC: $69,500 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $218,715 · Arts & Culture+16 moreScottsdale International Film Festival Inc: $135,300 · OtherScottsdale Interna…GREASEPAINT YOUTHEATRE: $80,274 · OtherGREASEPAINT YOUTHE…MOVEMENT SOURCE INC: $30,500 · OtherMOVEMENT SOURCE IN…SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS: $20,000 · OtherSCOTTSDALE COMMUNI…SCOTTSDALE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,500 · Other+6 more: $34,490 · Other+6 moreDETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC: $106,150 · Human ServicesSCOTTSDALE TRAINING & REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $29,750 · Human ServicesKids in Focus: $52,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOOTHILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $42,750 · PhilanthropyTHE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION: $41,000 · EducationFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA: $25,730 · Crime & Legal
Arts & Culture$1,303,933Other$311,064Human Services$135,900Youth Development$52,000Philanthropy$42,750Education$41,000Crime & Legal$25,730

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC: $500,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSCOTTSDALE ARTISTS' SCHOOL INC: $314,065 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetScottsdale International Film Festival Inc: $135,300 over 5y, 61% of budgetDETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC: $106,150 over 9y, 16% of budgetSCOTTSDALE PHILHARMONIC INC: $104,200 over 6y, 13% of budgetARIZONA MUSICFEST INC: $97,453 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetCHILDSPLAY INC: $69,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetKids in Focus: $52,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetDesert Stages Inc: $43,404 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFOOTHILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $42,750 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $40,900 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetSCOTTSDALE TRAINING & REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $29,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA: $25,730 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDON BLUTH FRONT ROW THEATRE: $20,911 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetSCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS: $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACT ONE: $18,250 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WALTER HIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetArizona Theatre Company: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAZZ IN ARIZONA INC: $6,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMusica Nova Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetScottsdale Gallery Association: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCATTLE TRACK ARTS AND PRESERVATION: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetIRANIAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetRISING YOUTH THEATRE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSCOTTSDALE BALLET FOUNDATION: $810 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

Arizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…Jewish Community Foun…Thunderbirds CharitiesScottsdale League for…The Herberger Foundat…American Express Foun…The Steele Foundation…Livingston FoundationMargaret T Morris Fou…Corning Incorporated …Silverman Family Foun…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ42.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Scottsdale Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scottsdale Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 38 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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