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Southern Arizona Leadership Council Inc

To improve greater tucson and the state of arizona by bringing together resources and leadership to enhance the economic climate and quality of life in our communities.

$225k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$135k
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 2024.

Education$273kCommunity Improvement$220kPublic Benefit$185kCivil Rights$75kPhilanthropy$35kEnvironment$27kScience & Tech$25kEmployment$24k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $202,501, the rows itemized in this filing. The $224,503 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,002 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE ELECTIONS FAIR PAC$135,000
UA FOUNDATION - ELLER COLLEGE INDICATORS$25,000
STARTUP TUCSON$10,000
TUCSON VALUES TEACHERS$10,000
UNITED WAY OF TUCSON & SOUTHERN ARIZONA$10,000
SAVE OUR TIPS AZ PAC$7,500
BETTER BALLOT ARIZONA AKA VOTER CHOICE ARIZONA$5,001
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%ARIZONA BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%TUCSON VALUES TEACHERS: $10k → 15%SAVE OUR TIPS AZ PAC: $8k → 11%TUCSON VALUES TEACHERS: $10k → 15%MAKE ELECTIONS FAIR PAC: $135k → 11%TUCSON VALUES TEACHERS: $10k → 15%YES ON 308: $25k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%BETTER BALLOT ARIZONA AKA VOTER CHOICE ARIZONA: $5k → 11%UA FOUNDATION - ELLER COLLEGE INDICATORS: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%UA FOUNDATION - ELLER COLLEGE INDICATORS: $25k → 15%UA FOUNDATION - ELLER COLLEGE INDICATORS: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%ELLER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $25k → 15%BIOSA INNOVATION: $25k → 15%JUST FIX OUR ROADS: $25k → 15%TUCSONANS FOR BETTER SAFER STREETS: $25k → 15%TUCSON VALUES TEACHERS: $10k → 15%TUCSON VALUES TEACHERS: $10k → 15%TUCSON VALUES TEACHERS: $10k → 15%TUCSON VALUES TEACHERS: $8k → 15%UNITED WAY OF TUCSON & SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $15k → 15%UNITED WAY OF TUCSON & SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $10k → 15%UNITED WAY OF TUCSON AND SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $25k → 15%NO ON 204: $25k → 15%YES ON PROP 481: $25k → 15%STARTUP TUCSON: $25k → 15%THE ROTHSCHILD FUND FOR CIVIC INNOVATION: $10k → 15%INCORPORATE VAIL PAC: $25k → 15%SOUTHERN ARIZONA DEFENSE ALLIANCE: $5k → 15%SOUTHERN ARIZONA DEFENSE ALLIANCE: $5k → 15%YES ON PROP 407: $25k → 15%INVEST IN TUCSON 2017: $10k → 15%YES FOR BETTER SAFER SCHOOLS: $15k → 15%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Southern Arizona Leadership Council Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Southern Arizona Leadership Council Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$383k · 5 repeat orgs$430k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
14

Total granted

$383k
$283k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
0%

Still filing today

60%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementPublic BenefitEducationEmploymentOther
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

  • ST
    STARTUP TUCSON
    7× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +51%
  • University of Arizona Foundation
    3× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +109%
  • TV
    TUCSON VALUES TEACHERS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $68k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • NO
    NO ON PROP 205
    one grant, 2019 · $27k
  • IV
    INCORPORATE VAIL ARIZONA
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • NO
    NO ON 204
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Arizona Technology Council

To connect and strengthen arizona's technology industry and community, promote state and federal policies that enhance arizona's technology industry, deliver quality content and events to educate those working in arizona's expanding…

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2
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
3
Invision Az

Arizona is on the cusp of a technological rise. invisionaz will accelerate the growth of arizona's vibrant tech ecosystem by creating, promoting, and leading the framework that allows technology, innovation, and investment to flourish. the…

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4
University of Arizona Alumni Association

Cultivate lifelong connections, strengthen commitment to the university and inspire advocacy, engagement and giving.

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5
Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce

The Tucson Metro Chamber is a membership-based business advocacy and community development organization that represents 1,500 businesses employing more than 160,000 employees in Tucson and Pima County. The Tucson Metro Chamber is committed…

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6
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
7
Startupaz Foundation

The mission of startupaz is to build a local community of entrepreneurs that want to make a positive impact in arizona.

Community Improvement
8
Solutions for an Independent Arizona

Organization mission solutions for an independent arizona envisions an arizona addresses its most pressing issues. independent arizona will identify, unite, and engage voters who want to elect people who will find common ground to serve…

Civil Rights
9
Southern Arizona Leadership Council Inc

To improve greater tucson and the state of arizona by bringing together resources and leadership to enhance the economic climate and quality of life in our communities.

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10
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights
11
Arizona Forward Association

Arizona Forward brings business and civic leaders together to promote cooperative efforts to improve the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of our state and local regions.

Community Improvement
12
Education Forward Arizona

To advocate for and act on education improvements that advance the quality of life for all arizonans.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Startup Tucson; the most unlike its peers is Voter Choice Arizona. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE ELECTIONS FAIR PAC: $135,000 · OtherMAKE ELECTIONS FAIR PACUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONANO ON PROP 205: $26,500 · OtherINCORPORATE VAIL ARIZONA: $25,000 · OtherNO ON 204: $25,000 · OtherYES ON 308: $25,000 · OtherYES ON PROP 407: $25,000 · OtherORO VALLEY INNOVATION LABS: $25,000 · OtherTUCSONANS FOR BETTER SAFER STREETS: $25,000 · OtherYES ON PROP 481: $25,000 · OtherJUST FIX OUR ROADS: $25,000 · Other+6 more: $68,500 · Other+6 moreSTARTUP TUCSON: $130,000 · Community ImprovementSTARTUP TUCSONARIZONA BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $75,000 · EducationUniversit…TUCSON VALUES TEACHERS: $67,500 · EmploymentUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyVOTER CHOICE ARIZONA: $5,001 · Public Benefit
Other$530,000Community Improvement$135,000Education$75,000Employment$67,500Philanthropy$50,000Public Benefit$5,001

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTARTUP TUCSON: $130,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON VALUES TEACHERS: $67,500 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINCORPORATE VAIL ARIZONA: $25,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetVOTER CHOICE ARIZONA: $5,001 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetARIZONA BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds STARTUP TUCSON ↗
  • Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TUCSON VALUES TEACHERS ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ↗
  • Who funds INCORPORATE VAIL ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds ORO VALLEY INNOVATION LABS ↗
  • Who funds VOTER CHOICE ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Amazonsmile 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 Southern Arizona Leadership Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southern Arizona Leadership Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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