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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
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02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $55,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $84,590 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,590 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.
$55,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$66k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCOTTSDALE CULTURAL COUNCIL$55,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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 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.

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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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8
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Symphony Association; 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 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. 17 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetJAZZ IN ARIZONA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 budgetVALLEY YOUTH THEATRE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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
    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 18 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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