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Trico Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$514k
Granted FY2024still arriving
113
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$2.7MHuman Services$47kFood & Nutrition$35kPublic Benefit$20kHealth$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 113 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,750
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 9%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC: $5k → 11%ARIVACA COORDINATING COUNCIL HUMAN RESOURCES GROUP: $5k → 15%ARIVACA HELPING HEARTS: $3k → 15%CASA DE LA LUZ FOUNDATION: $9k → 15%HELMET PEAK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 228 repeat orgs$452k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +372% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

228 repeat relationships — 91 still active in FY2024, 137 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

228
79

Total granted

$2.4M
$390k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+372%
0%

Still filing today

0%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • SF
    SAHUARITA FOOD BANK
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +372%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2024 · $17k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2024 · $17k

Funded once

  • TU
    TUCSON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • EE
    EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -1%
  • MU
    MARANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
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 Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
4
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
5
Chino Valley Food Bank

Provide emergency food boxes for needy families and individuals who reside in rural yavapai county arizona

Food & Nutrition
6
Southeastern Arizona Community Unique Services

To provide services to the elderly and disabled in the form of congregate and home delivered meals, housekeeping services, in-home nursing care, home health aides, and other services.

Health
7
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
Pima Council on Aging

Our mission is to promote dignity and respect for aging, and to advocate for independence in the lives of Pima County's older adults and their families, now and for generations to come.

Human Services
9
Verde Valley Senior Citizens Association

To enrich the lives of senior citizens and verde valley communities by providing wholesome meals and promoting a variety of social and recreational activities for all to enjoy.

Human Services
10
Extended Hands Food Bank

To establish an effective network for the procurement and distribution of food to serve the below income residents of Fountain Hills, Fort McDowell reservation and the Northeast valley of Phoenix, AZ

Food & Nutrition
11
Foothills Caring Corps Inc

We provide a range of services to improve the lives of senior and disabled Neighbors and promote care, safety, and community inclusion in everyday life, allowing them to thrive as they age in place.

Human Services
12
Azcend

AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Helmet Peak Volunteer Fire Department. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 330 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+193 more — $2,274,063 · Other+193 moreSAHUARITA FOOD BANK — $25,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Inc — $10,000 · Food & NutritionEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationHELMET PEAK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $10,000 · Human ServicesRoots & Roads Community Hospice Foundation — $9,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,274,063Food & Nutrition$35,000Education$25,000Human Services$19,000Youth Development$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAHUARITA FOOD BANK — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS 5990 AVRA VALLEY POST — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInterfaith Community Services — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoots & Roads Community Hospice Foundation — $9,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
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 SAHUARITA FOOD BANK
  • Who funds EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS 5990 AVRA VALLEY POST

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.

Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Greater Green Valley Community FDN Inc · Marshall Foundation · Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Community Food Bank Inc · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Arizona Food Bank Network · Texas Instruments Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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 · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Trico Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Trico Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 330 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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