· Public charity
Trico Electric Cooperative Inc
Dedicated to making a difference in the communities we serve by providing our members cost-effective and sustainable energy solutions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $27,050 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $50,855 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,805 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA INC | $10,000 |
| MARANA FOOD BANK | $9,050 |
| HARD HITTERS FOR THE KINGDOM INC | $8,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $584k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- ACArizona Community Action Association3× · 2020–2023 · $150k · revenue +63%
- CFCommunity Food Bank Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +31%
- DPDIABETES PREVENTION AND AID FUND2× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- TFTRICO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $114k · revenue -13%
- PRPICTURE ROCKS FIRE DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CDCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +168%
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.
A community in which people have access to food and resources to foster self-sufficiency
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.
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…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To halt hunger and malnutrition in Yavapai County and provide relief from suffering for those who are living in poverty by giving a hand up, not just a hand out.
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…
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The mission of the Pima Council on Aging Foundation is to develop a permanent and broad funding base that will ensure the continuity of the Pima Council on Aging and assist it in becoming less dependent upon unpredictable governmental…
Arizona Forward brings business and civic leaders together to promote cooperative efforts to improve the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of our state and local regions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trico Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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
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 TRICO ELECTRIC CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Arizona Community Action Association ↗
- Who funds TRICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds DIABETES PREVENTION AND AID FUND ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Marana Health Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAHUARITA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Tucson Inc ↗
- Who funds Make Way For Books ↗
- Who funds Arivaca Helping Hearts ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA BURN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Old Pueblo Community Services ↗
- Who funds Arivaca Human Resources ↗
- Who funds Tucson Conquistadores Inc ↗
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 · 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
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 Trico Electric Cooperative Inc 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.