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Trico Electric Cooperative Inc

Dedicated to making a difference in the communities we serve by providing our members cost-effective and sustainable energy solutions.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$34k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$350M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Trico Electric Cooperative Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$34k50%
FY20243$27k33%
FY20237$100k57%
FY20223$21k100%
FY20214$72k75%
FY20207$672k86%
FY20191$50k0%
FY20182$55k100%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$633kEducation$141kPublic Safety & Disaster$133kFood & Nutrition$45kHealth$26kInternational$19kHousing & Shelter$16kRecreation & Sports$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trico Electric Charitable Trust$570,000392%
Arizona Community Action Association$160,25041%
Trico Foundation$113,900110%
Community Food Bank Inc$24,25030%
Junior Achievement of Arizona$18,50020%
Diabetes Prevention and Aid Fund$18,00020%
Arivaca Fire District Auxiliary Inc$12,2502n/a
Marana Health Center Foundation Inc$10,00015%
Picture Rocks Fire District$10,0001n/a
Marana Unified School District$10,0001n/a
Show all 22 grantees
All grantees of Trico Electric Cooperative Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trico Electric Charitable Trust$570,000392%
Arizona Community Action Association$160,25041%
Trico Foundation$113,900110%
Community Food Bank Inc$24,25030%
Junior Achievement of Arizona$18,50020%
Diabetes Prevention and Aid Fund$18,00020%
Arivaca Fire District Auxiliary Inc$12,2502n/a
Marana Health Center Foundation Inc$10,00015%
Picture Rocks Fire District$10,0001n/a
Marana Unified School District$10,0001n/a
Cooperative Development Foundation$10,00011%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson Inc$10,0001n/a
Sahuarita Food Bank$9,00010%
Make Way For Books$8,50010%
Arivaca Helping Hearts$8,500139%
Habitat for Humanity Tucson Inc$8,50010%
Arivaca Action Center Incorporated$8,00015%
Hard Hitters for the Kingdom Inc$8,0001n/a
Arizona Burn Foundation Inc$7,40010%
Old Pueblo Community Services$7,40010%
Arivaca Human Resources$5,20013%
Tucson Conquistadores Inc$5,00810%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Trico Electric Cooperative Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrico Electric Charitable Trust: $570,000 over 3y, 92% of budgetArizona Community Action Association: $160,250 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTrico Foundation: $113,900 over 1y, 10% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $24,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Arizona: $18,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDiabetes Prevention and Aid Fund: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMarana Health Center Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCooperative Development Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSahuarita Food Bank: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMake Way For Books: $8,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetArivaca Helping Hearts: $8,500 over 1y, 39% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Tucson Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArivaca Action Center Incorporated: $8,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetArizona Burn Foundation Inc: $7,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOld Pueblo Community Services: $7,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArivaca Human Resources: $5,200 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTucson Conquistadores Inc: $5,008 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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 for Southern ArizonaAZ19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Trico Electric Cooperative Inc

How much does Trico Electric Cooperative Inc give?
Trico Electric Cooperative Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $34,200, out of $50,031 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Trico Electric Cooperative Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (62%), Education (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (13%).
Who are Trico Electric Cooperative Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trico Electric Charitable Trust ($570k), Arizona Community Action Association ($160k), Trico Foundation ($114k).
Does Trico Electric Cooperative Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Trico Electric Cooperative Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, The Hs Lopez Family Foundation, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc.
Where is Trico Electric Cooperative Inc based?
Trico Electric Cooperative Inc is based in AZ.

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 23 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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