· Private foundation
Southwest Foundation for Education & Historical Preservation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION & HISTORICAL PRESERVATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA TUCSON AZ | $56,689 |
| PATRONATO SAN XAVIER | $50,000 |
| TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS TUCSON AZ | $24,000 |
| FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GEORGE PHAR LEGLER SOCIETY INC | $20,000 |
| NACO HERITAGE ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ARIZONA | $15,000 |
| FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| SANTA CRUZ VALLEY NATIONAL HERITAGE | $11,800 |
| TUCSON YOUTH MUSIC CENTER | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM TUCSON | $10,000 |
| LOS DESCENDIENTES DEL PRESIDIO DE T | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
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 (FY21–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Southwest Foundation for Education & Historical Preservation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k 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
- PSPATRONATO SAN XAVIER4× · 2017–2024 · $174k · revenue +70%
- TAThe Amerind Foundation Inc5× · 2017–2023 · $101k · revenue +264%
University of Arizona Foundation2× · 2017–2023 · $94k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- UOU OF A FOUNDATION - HONORS COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $50k
- UOU OF A FOUND - UA HONORS COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $45k
- UOU OF A FOUND - HONORS COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $34k
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.
The Arts Foundation mission is to advance artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture in our region.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
Our focus is to work with groups and individuals who are in the arts, humanities, education and historic preservation with goals designed to enhance Bisbees unique place in the history of the Southwest, the contribution made to Bisbees…
Through the operation of museums and support of historic preservation we will attempt to interpret and conserve our historical and cultural heritage. Through the presentation and support of cultural and educational programs we will attempt…
Acquisition preservation and Restoration of Railroad Artifacts Showing the History of Arizona
The Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum is dedicated to preserving and presenting the culturally diverse history the human experience as well as exploring the natural environment unique to the Globe-Miami region of Arizona
The tucson museum of art and historic block connects art to life through meaningful and engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Northern Arizona Inc and the most unlike its peers is Babbitt Brothers Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 110 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 PATRONATO SAN XAVIER ↗
- Who funds The Amerind Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds TUCSON HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TUCSON'S BIRTHPLACE ↗
- Who funds TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Museum of Northern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON ↗
- Who funds RIALTO THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOWELL OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Babbitt Brothers Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACT ONE ↗
- Who funds IMAGO DEI MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Central School Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN ↗
- Who funds Southwest Folklife Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds DUNBAR COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Archaeology Southwest ↗
- Who funds Vail Preservation Society ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE PHAR LEGLER SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Arizona Humanities Council Inc · Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Margaret E Mooney Foundation · The Stocker Foundation · Wallace Research Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Stonewall Foundation · Marshall 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 Southwest Foundation for Education & Historical Preservation 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.