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The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$428k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Philanthropy$1.7MHuman Services$1.5MArts & Culture$1.4MEmployment$863kHealth$590kEducation$450kHousing & Shelter$417kCivil Rights$376kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k17 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $585k
  • $250k+1 grant · $428k
$12,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dress for Success Phoenix$428,005
Matriarch Ways$65,200
Phoenix Legal Action Network$65,000
RE Frame Youth Arts Center$65,000
CAIR Arizona$65,000
Dunbar Coalition$65,000
Poder$65,000
Building Out Safer Spaces$65,000
BIPOC Loan Fund$65,000
Scholarships AZ$65,000
State Democracy Project$30,000
Postpartum Support International$30,000
Instituto Lab$12,000
Community Investment Corporation$12,000
Beyond Resilient$10,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Tucson Jewish Community Center: $71k → 15%Alices Place: $10k → 26%Arivaca Action Center: $5k → 15%Construyendo Circulos de Paz: $40k → 19%Dress for Success Phoenix: $428k → 11%Dress for Success Phoenix: $395k → 11%Chicanos Por La Causa: $65k → 11%Beyond the Hurt: $75k → 11%Beyond the Hurt: $65k → 11%Matriarch Ways: $65k → 11%Beyond the Hurt: $65k → 11%Beyond Resilient: $10k → 11%One Hundred Angels Foundation: $5k → 11%Red de DefensAZ: $10k → 15%Instituto Lab: $12k → 11%I Am You 360: $49k → 15%I Am You 360: $33k → 15%Earn to Learn: $40k → 15%Jewish Family and Childrens Servic: $7k → 15%Tucson Centers for Women and Childr: $65k → 15%Tucson Centers for Women and Childr: $65k → 15%Tucson Centers for Women and Childr: $65k → 15%Emerge Center Against Domestic Abu: $60k → 15%Emerge Center Against Domestic Abu: $40k → 15%Emerge Ctr Against Domestic Abuse: $40k → 15%Youth On Their Own: $14k → 15%Youth On Their Own: $60k → 15%Youth On Their Own: $40k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
UT
AZ
NM
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 26 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
44

Total granted

$5.0M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $593k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTER
    4× · 2018–2023 · $518k · revenue +128%
  • TC
    TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $335k · revenue +112%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $327k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
    one grant, 2020 · $110k
  • SO
    State of Arizona
    one grant, 2021 · $105k
  • TJ
    TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $71k · revenue +12%
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.

1
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
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
3
Corazon Az

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,…

Civil Rights
4
Cala Alliance

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Just Communities Arizona

To create, foster, and resource new models for safety and justice outside the punishment system. We work with people impacted by the punishment system to promote a holistic view of safety that encompasses physical, emotional, and economic…

Housing & Shelter
6
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
7
Black Phoenix Organizing Collective

We prioritize the needs of Black people through two programs: Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice. We believe that supporting mental healthcare, holding and creating space for vulnerability is a piece of how we free ourselves as…

Food & Nutrition
8
The State of Black Arizona

The State of Black Arizona leads the production, synthesis, and socialization of actionable data and insights for all Arizonans, focusing on the Black community. We ensure that the factors leading to inequitable outcomes are identified,…

Human Services
9
Alianzas De Phoenixville

Alianzas strives for equity and the dignity of diverse communities regardless of their country of origin by providing services to the under resourced and by promoting intercultural exchanges to connect all individuals in the broader…

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10
Codac Health Recovery & Wellness

Codac provides tools, support and services to individuals, families, and communities so they may live with dignity, free from the harmful effects of mental illness, substance use disorders and trauma.

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11
Statewide Independent Living Council

Arizona Statewide Independent Living Council, AZSILC is one of 56 Statewide Independent Living Councils, SILCs which are federally mandated under the Rehabilitation Act. There is one SILC in each state and US territory. AZSILC members are…

Human Services
12
Arizona Local Post

Our mission is to educate and inform public discourse and civic participation in arizona through local, independent journalism.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Southern Arizona; the most unlike its peers is Gloria's Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 92 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/85
Grantees still filing
54/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX: $823,005 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIXTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $335,000 · Human ServicesTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN …BEYOND THE HURT: $205,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND THE HURTYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $114,242 · Human ServicesYOUTH ON THEIR OWNI Am You 360: $81,037 · Human ServicesTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $71,208 · Human ServicesMatriarch Ways Inc: $65,200 · Human ServicesCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $65,000 · Human Services+9 more: $139,321 · Human Services+9 moreUTAH FILM CENTER: $517,500 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERCihuapactli Collective: $205,000 · Arts & CultureCihuapactli Collectiv…AFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA: $175,000 · Arts & CultureAFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MED…THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIV…BLACK LIVES MATTER PHOENIX METRO: $140,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK LIVES MATTER PH…Splinter Art and Community Fund: $85,000 · Arts & CultureREFRAME YOUTH ARTS CENTER: $65,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $197,500 · Arts & Culture+7 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,105,344 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMEN…COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $272,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY INVESTME…+1 more: $27,500 · Community ImprovementYWCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $186,000 · OtherYWCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONACOMPASS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC: $135,868 · OtherCOMPASS AFFORDABLE HOUSING…Our Family Services Inc: $132,200 · OtherOur Family Services IncUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $110,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAState of Arizona: $105,000 · OtherInterfaith Community Services: $67,500 · OtherPHOENIX LEGAL ACTION NETWORK: $270,000 · OtherPHOENIX LEGAL ACTION NETWO…Poder in Action: $135,000 · OtherPoder in ActionThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $149,000 · OtherThe Primavera Foundation I…+29 more: $708,342 · Other+29 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $544,721 · Philanthropy+2 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $260,000 · EducationLITERACY CONNECTS: $121,000 · EducationSCHOLARSHIPSA Z: $65,000 · EducationSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $40,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $23,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $326,600 · HealthAMISTAD Y SALUD: $35,500 · HealthIntegrative Touch: $32,600 · HealthSOUTHEAST ARIZONA AREA HEALTH: $25,000 · Health+6 more: $70,000 · Health
Human Services$1,899,013Arts & Culture$1,595,000Community Improvement$1,404,844Other$1,998,910Philanthropy$554,721Education$529,500Health$489,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,105,344 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX: $823,005 over 2y, 18% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $544,721 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $517,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $335,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $326,600 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $272,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetPHOENIX LEGAL ACTION NETWORK: $270,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetLAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $260,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetBEYOND THE HURT: $205,000 over 3y, 69% of budgetCihuapactli Collective: $205,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetYWCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $186,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetAFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA: $175,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $149,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBLACK LIVES MATTER PHOENIX METRO: $140,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOMPASS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC: $135,868 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetPoder in Action: $135,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetOur Family Services Inc: $132,200 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $121,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $114,242 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSplinter Art and Community Fund: $85,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetI Am You 360: $81,037 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $71,208 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInterfaith Community Services: $67,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSCHOLARSHIPSA Z: $65,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFRAME YOUTH ARTS CENTER: $65,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetDUNBAR COALITION INC: $65,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN: $40,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSTRUYENDO CIRCULES DE PAZ- CONSTRUCTING CIRCLES OF PEACE: $40,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $40,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetBUDDHIST FILM FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetStep Up To Justice: $40,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetJOB PATH INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMISTAD Y SALUD: $35,500 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $34,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetIntegrative Touch: $32,600 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $29,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDREAMSPRING: $27,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEACE IS LOUD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGLORIA'S FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSOUTHEAST ARIZONA AREA HEALTH: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSouthern Arizona Gender Alliance Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 35% of budget
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.

Community Foundation …Arizona Community Fou…The Hs Lopez Family F…United Way of Tucson …Social Venture Partne…Connie Hillman Family…Community Food Bank I…Marshall FoundationJewish Community Foun…The David and Lura Lo…Zuckerman Community O…Absolon Foundation
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ85.6× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Social Venture Partners Tucson · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Community Food Bank Inc · Marshall Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The David and Lura Lovell · Zuckerman Community Outreach Foundation · Absolon Foundation

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 Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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