· Private foundation
The Gordon Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k20 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $25,000 |
| CASA DE LOS NINOS | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| SARSEF | $3,000 |
| PRIMAVERA FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| TUCSON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $3,000 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $3,000 |
| TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,500 |
| TUCSON MUSEUM & HOLOCAUST CENTER | $2,000 |
| EL GRUPO YOUTH CYCLING | $2,000 |
| TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,000 |
| TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS | $2,000 |
| LITERACY CONNECTS | $1,500 |
| MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS | $1,500 |
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 (FY22–26, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2026, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SASouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN5× · 2022–2026 · $17k · revenue +67%
- YOYOUTH ON THEIR OWN5× · 2022–2026 · $17k · revenue +56%
- TPThe Primavera Foundation Inc5× · 2022–2026 · $14k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- POPATRON OF THE ARTS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2024 · $3k
- TMTucson Medical Centerone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +17%
- BGBOTANICAL GARDENSone grant, 2025 · $2k
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.
Our vision is a community where every child receives a high-quality education from birth to career, every adult has the opportunity to thrive financailly and in the workplace, and every older person can retire and age with dignity and…
The Tucson Investigative Reporting Center educates and informs Southern Arizonans about the community challenges & unique culture of our borderlands through independent local journalism.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
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…
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…
To elevate the teaching profession in southern arizona by empowering and celebrating prek-12 teacher excellence through community engagement and investment.
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.
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.
CORAZÓN-AZ's mission is to cultivate and foster a welcoming and safe community of Arizonans from vast faith traditions and beliefs, schools, and allied organizations; united in expanding our democracy, economic dignity, immigrant justice,…
CelebracinArtstica de lasAmricas(CALA)Alliancecollaborates with artists and arts organizations to nurture artistic talent, focusing onartistsfrom the Latin American diaspora.Through innovative artist residencies, commissions, community…
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 30 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 Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA DE LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Tucson Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds Make Way For Books ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds EL GRUPO YOUTH CYCLING ↗
- Who funds Tucson Medical Center ↗
- Who funds TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LEAD GUITAR ↗
- Who funds Sister Jose Women's Center ↗
- Who funds TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation · The David and Lura Lovell · John and Helen Murphey Foundation Inc · The Stonewall Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gordon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gordon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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