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Trico Electric Cooperative Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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 2024.

Human Services$633kEducation$141kPublic Safety & Disaster$133kFood & Nutrition$45kHealth$26kInternational$19kHousing & Shelter$16kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $34,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $50,031 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,831 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$350M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILDFIRE$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TUCSON$10,000
ARIVACA ACTION CENTER$8,000
MARANA FOOD BANK$6,200
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 (FY18–25, $592k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ARIVACA HELPING HEARTS: $9k → 15%ARIVACA ACTION CENTER: $8k → 15%ARIVACA COORDINATING COUNCIL: $5k → 15%TRICO ELECTRIC CHARITABLE TRUST: $470k → 15%TRICO CHARITABLE TRUST: $50k → 15%TRICO CHARITABLE TRUST: $50k → 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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$803k · 6 repeat orgs$248k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
15

Total granted

$803k
$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+48%

Still filing today

83%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyInternationalEducationOther
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

  • AC
    Arizona Community Action Association
    4× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +63%
  • CF
    Community Food Bank Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $24k · revenue +31%
  • DP
    DIABETES PREVENTION AND AID FUND
    2× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • TF
    TRICO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $114k · revenue +16%
  • MH
    Marana Health Center Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -33%
  • PR
    PICTURE ROCKS FIRE DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

1
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
The Arvada Community Food Bank dba Community Table

A community in which people have access to food and resources to foster self-sufficiency

Food & Nutrition
3
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
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4
Tempe Community Action Agency Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
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
6
Impact of Southern Arizona

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.

Community Improvement
7
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
8
Az Community Impact

The vision of AZCI is to transform communities by providing pathways to sustainability for families in need. The mission of AZCI is to leverage resources to meet the needs of individuals and families facing hardship. AZCI complements and…

Community Improvement
9
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
10
Arizona Forward Association

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.

Community Improvement
11
Paz De Cristo Community Center

To feed, clothe and empower those struggling with hunger, poverty homelessness in the city of Mesa, Arizona area, by serving over 70,000 hot evening meals per year. (Continued on Schedule O, Statement 2)

Food & Nutrition
12
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Bank Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 23 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRICO ELECTRIC CHARITABLE TRUST: $570,000 · Human ServicesTRICO ELECTRIC CHARITABLE TRUST+3 more: $21,700 · Human ServicesArizona Community Action Association: $160,250 · OtherArizona Community Action AssociationTRICO FOUNDATION: $113,900 · OtherTRICO FOUNDATIONARIVACA FIRE DISTRICT AUXILIARY INC: $12,250 · Other+9 more: $74,808 · Other+9 moreCommunity Food Bank Inc: $24,250 · Food & NutritionDIABETES PREVENTION AND AID FUND: $18,000 · Food & NutritionSAHUARITA FOOD BANK: $9,000 · Food & NutritionJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $18,500 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EmploymentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMake Way For Books: $8,500 · Education
Human Services$591,700Other$361,208Food & Nutrition$51,250International$18,500Employment$10,000Youth Development$10,000Education$8,500

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

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
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 …The Hs Lopez Family F…United Way of Tucson …Arizona Community Fou…Burton Family Foundat…The Diane and Bruce H…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Trico Electric Cooperative Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trico Electric Cooperative Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 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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