· Private foundation
The Eliot Spalding Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Eliot Spalding Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For Southern Arizona, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Eliot Spalding Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $174k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST FOCUS ON KIDS | $10,000 |
| OUR FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN AZ LEGAL AID | $10,000 |
| YMCA FAMILY PROGRAM UNIT | $10,000 |
| ANGEL CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC | $10,000 |
| PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $9,000 |
| MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS | $8,000 |
| AZ JUSTICE PROJECT | $7,500 |
| MISSION OF MERCY ARIZONA | $7,000 |
| LITERACY CONNECTS | $6,500 |
| LIBRARIES LIMITED | $6,500 |
| STEP UP FOR JUSTICE | $6,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down. Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OFOur Family Services Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +28%
- PCPima Council on Aging8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +4%
- YOYOUTH ON THEIR OWN8× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- DCDIRECT CAREGIVER ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- WNWESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +99%
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.
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.
Goodwill Industries of Southern Arizona works toward ensuring that all people have the opportunity to reach their potential and contribute to our community. Through quality, evidence-based, workforce development programs; Goodwill…
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
We drive economic and political empowerment.
To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.
TCAA's mission is to eliminate poverty and advance equitable communities. This mission is achieved through the delivery of comprehensive human services programs designed to improve housing stability, increase food security, improve health…
A resource and day-center for seniors, age 55+, providing guidance and support on the PATH back to housing; and CARE supportive services to prevent a return to homelessness.
The Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona (CareAz) is a community-based organization dedicated to reducing the harmful effects of substance use disorder through comprehensive prevention, treatment, recovery, and reentry support.…
To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.
AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.
Our holistic approach prepares and embraces individuals to age independently, safely and with peace of mind.
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Our Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Pima Council on Aging ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds Make Way For Books ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Dancing in the Streets Arizona ↗
- Who funds St Lukes in the Desert Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CAREGIVER TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Step Up To Justice ↗
- Who funds GODS VAST RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN CENTERS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ERIK HITE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Marshall Foundation · The David and Lura Lovell · Lucille E Williams Foundation · Zuckerman Community Outreach Foundation · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Donald Pitt Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Eliot Spalding Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eliot Spalding Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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