How much does The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation give?

The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $2,995,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

Who are The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wsia Education Foundation ($3.1M), Insurance Training and Education Center Inc ($1.1M), St Mary's Food Bank Alliance ($835k).

Does The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Thunderbirds Charities, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust.

The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation

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The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation

Q: What does The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (34%), Employment (33%), Health (12%).

Q: Where is The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation based?

The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation is based in DE.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.0M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$450k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$4.6MEmployment$4.3MHealth$1.6MHuman Services$925kInternational$710kYouth Development$305kPublic Safety & Disaster$275kEducation$250kOther$0

02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $25k
$10k–50k32 grants · $445k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.8M
$250k+2 grants · $700k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE WSIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$450,000
INSURANCE TRAINING AND EDUCATION CENTER INC	$250,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC	$200,000
ST MARYS FOOD BANK ALLIANCE	$200,000
PAZ DE CRISTO COMMUNITY CENTER	$200,000
KITCHEN ON THE STREET INC	$175,000
WASTE NOT INC	$175,000
ANDRE HOUSE OF ARIZONA INC	$150,000
HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION	$150,000
MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP INC	$150,000
YUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK	$100,000
SAMARITANS PURSE	$100,000
100 CLUB OF ARIZONA	$75,000
SAMARITANS PURSE	$50,000
HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION	$50,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $609k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$13M · 54 repeat orgs$470k to everyone else

54 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$265k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+35%

Still filing today

67%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

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WSIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +327% · 48% of their budget
IT
INSURANCE TRAINING AND EDUCATION CENTER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +15% · 47% of their budget
SM
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
9× · 2017–2025 · $835k · revenue +58%

Funded once

AE
AAMGA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $200k
DS
Desert Survivors Incgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +35%
TC
Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development
one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

04Its field

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.

United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health

Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights

Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health

Lodestar Charitable Foundation

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.

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Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health

Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

—

Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health

Arizona Association of Community Health Centers Inc

To promote and facilitate the development and delivery of affordable and accessible primary healthcare for everyone in arizona through advocacy, education and technical assistance.

Health

Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition

Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health

University of Arizona Foundation

The university of arizona foundation is committed to supporting and enhancing the vision, mission and values of the university of arizona through the development and management of private support.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ABILITY360 Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gila Community Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 73 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/53

Grantees still filing

30/53

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,292,000Food & Nutrition$4,035,000Education$1,310,000Health$1,165,500Human Services$734,000Religion$730,000Arts & Culture$102,500

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.

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ41.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · BHHS Legacy Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · American Express Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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