· Private foundation
The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona
PROMOTING POPULATION HEALTH AND COMMUNITY WELLNESS THROUGHOUT SOUTHEAST ARIZONA.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of THE LEGACY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEAST ARIZONA’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k117 grants · $207k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $261k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
- $250k+1 grant · $383k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COCHISE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $383,056 |
| DRAGONFLY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BISBEE DOUGLAS UNIT | $50,000 |
| STEP UP BISBEE NACO | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SIERRA VISTA | $50,000 |
| ARIZONA BORDER ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| WILLCOX COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $45,000 |
| CITY OF DOUGLAS | $32,500 |
| SONOITA COMPANY ARIZONA RANGERS | $30,000 |
| WINCHESTER HEIGHTS HEALTH ORGANIZATION | $28,510 |
| CITY OF WILLCOX | $25,000 |
| THE BUTTERFLY CLUB | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SOUTHERN ARIZONA AIDS FOUNDATION (SAAF) | $10,000 |
| CHIRICAHUA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $522k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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 +17% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k 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
- CCChiricahua Community Health Centers Inc6× · 2017–2025 · $345k · revenue +195%
- BABoys and Girls Club of Sierra Vista Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $237k · revenue +128%
- SASOUTHEAST ARIZONA AREA HEALTH2× · 2017–2018 · $111k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- LFLA FRONTERAone grant, 2022 · $751k
- CFCommunity Food Bank Incone grant, 2017 · $275k · revenue -6%
- HCHEALTH CURRENTone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -16%
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.
Our mission is continually to improve the quality of life for the people we serve in collaboration with our diverse communities in a respectful, caring, culturally sensitive manner. The organization provides behavioral health services for…
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.
To provide services to the elderly and disabled in the form of congregate and home delivered meals, housekeeping services, in-home nursing care, home health aides, and other services.
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.…
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…
Provide food for at risk families
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Technical Assistance Partnership of Arizona and the most unlike its peers is The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona. 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 18 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
92 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. 92 of the 230 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Chiricahua Community Health Centers Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Sierra Vista Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBOR ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CURRENT ↗
- Who funds WILLCOX AGAINST SUBSTANCE ABUSE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ARIZONA AREA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Cochise Harm Reduction ↗
- Who funds Champions for Youth Foundation ↗
- Who funds Step Up Bisbee-Naco Inc ↗
- Who funds Willcox Theater and Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER HEIGHTS HEALTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE MUZIQ OPERATION 13 2 ↗
- Who funds BISBEE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Bisbee Vogue Inc ↗
- Who funds Premier Alliances Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arizona Border Alliance ↗
- Who funds COCHISE FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC dba LORIS PLACE ↗
- Who funds Patagonia Regional Aquatics Center ↗
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 · Community Food Bank Inc · Bootheel Foundation · Howard G Buffett Foundation · Arizona Food Bank Network · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Burton Family Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · 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 Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona 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.