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Scottsdale League for the Arts

Support artists, arts programs and arts education through fundraising and special events

$85k
Granted FY2018
1
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.

Arts & Culture$201kCrime & Legal$8k
02FY2018 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $55,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $84,590 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,590 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.

$55,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$66k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCOTTSDALE CULTURAL COUNCIL$55,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GREAT ARIZONA PUPPET THEATER INC: $5k → 11%MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: $5k → 11%FREE ARTS OF ARIZONA: $8k → 11%CENTER DANCE ENSEMBLE: $5k → 11%YOUNG ARTS ARIZONA LTD: $5k → 11%SCOTTSDALE CULTURAL COUNCIL: $65k → 11%SCOTTSDALE CULTURAL COUNCIL: $55k → 11%PHOENIX FILM FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%CHILDSPLAY INC: $5k → 11%PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH THEATRE: $5k → 11%PHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $5k → 11%PHOENIX THEATRE INC: $5k → 11%JAZZ IN ARIZONA INC: $5k → 11%WEST VALLEY ART COUNCIL: $5k → 11%PHOENIX CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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Phoenix Performing Arts Inc
Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Phoenix Performing Arts Center Inc

We are arizona's center stage, engaging the community through diverse experiences that ignite emotion, stimulate conversation, and inspire connections with the arts.

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
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
6
Southwest Shakespeare Company Inc

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

Arts & Culture
7
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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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
9
Chandler Youth Theatre

Chandler Youth Theatre aims to cultivate an inclusive learning environment where youth from all backgrounds can pursue theater, create art, and collaborate in a production. Chandler Youth Theatre strives to produce both quality productions…

Arts & Culture
10
Tucson Symphony Society

The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.

Arts & Culture
11
Phoenix Childrens Chorus Inc

Foster excellence in youth by facilitating artistic, cultural, and personal development through choral education and performance.

Arts & Culture
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Symphony Association and the most unlike its peers is Detour Company Theater Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCOTTSDALE ARTS — $120,000 · Arts & CultureSCOTTSDALE ARTS+14 more — $70,000 · Arts & Culture+14 moreFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA — $8,000 · Crime & LegalDETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC — $5,700 · Human ServicesCENTER DANCE ENSEMBLE — $5,000 · Other
Arts & Culture$190,000Crime & Legal$8,000Human Services$5,700Other$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCOTTSDALE ARTS — $120,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC — $5,700 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPHOENIX FILM FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT SOUNDS PERFORMING ARTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetArizona Theatre Company — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJAZZ IN ARIZONA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH THEATRE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Thunderbirds CharitiesVirginia G Piper Char…Arizona Community Fou…Jewish Community Foun…The Herberger Foundat…Scottsdale ArtsWilliam & Ruth Pendle…Margaret T Morris Fou…The Torosian Foundati…Sherman and Linda Sap…Flinn FoundationThe Diane and Bruce H…
Thunderbirds CharitiesAZ28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · The Herberger Foundation · Scottsdale Arts · William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund US Bank National Association · Margaret T Morris Foundation · The Torosian Foundation · Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust · Flinn Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle 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 League for the 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    8report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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