· Private foundation
The Evo and Ora Deconcini and Thu Family Foundation
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: 47% of THE EVO AND ORA DECONCINI AND THU FAMILY FOUNDATION’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 $10k35 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $25,000 |
| SISTER JOSE WOMEN'S CENTER | $10,500 |
| CENTRAL ARIZONA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL MILL DOG RESCUE | $2,500 |
| GRACE ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF LAW FUND | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FLORENCE PROJECT | $1,000 |
| TUCSON OFF ROAD CYCLISTS ACTIVISTS | $1,000 |
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MORE THAN A BED | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF LAW - INDIGENOUS PEOPLE LAW & POLICY | $1,000 |
| THEATRE BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 6% of The Evo and Ora Deconcini and Thu Family Foundation’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. Read by recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 69% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 10 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- SJSister Jose Women's Center7× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +365%
University of Arizona Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +109%- EAEASTERN ARIZONA COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +245%
Funded once
- GFGREEN FIELDS SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $4k
- SASOUTHERN ARIZONA ANIMAL FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +21%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +29%
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.
The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
The arizona pet project creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection…
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Balo Usa. 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 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 85 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Ed Ahead Inc ↗
- Who funds Sister Jose Women's Center ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTERN ARIZONA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Tucson Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN FIELDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children of God Relief Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds MCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds National Mill Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ARIZONA ANIMAL FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GOLD RIBBON RESCUE ↗
- Who funds INVISIBLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BALO USA ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN A BED ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Children's Home ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR RESPONSIBLE CUBA POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES 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 · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The Kai Family Foundation · Ginny L Clements Charitable Trust · The Intuit Foundation · The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust
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 The Evo and Ora Deconcini and Thu Family Foundation 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.
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
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.
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