· Public charity
Tucson Desert Song Festival
To bring exceptional performances from world class vocal artists to tucson through an annual song festival and offer educational opportunities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $135,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $145,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARIZONA OPERA | $30,000 |
| TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| TUCSON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $18,000 |
| TRUE CONCORD VOICES AND ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| ARIZONA EARLY MUSIC | $12,000 |
| ARIZONA FREINDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA THEATER COMPANY | $10,000 |
| BALLET TUCSON | $10,000 |
| JAZZ IN JANUARY INC | $5,750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- TSTucson Symphony Society6× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +44%
- BABALLET ARTS FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $51k · revenue +103%
- JIJAZZ IN JANUARY INC4× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- TUTUCSON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2025 · $18k
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.
The Sedona Symphony is committed to enriching the quality of life of our Northern Arizona community through the power of live orchestral music that educates, entertains, and inspires. From timeless classics to bold contemporary works, the…
To nurture, promote and produce the finest traditional performances
ProMusica Arizona enriches lives in the Greater Phoenix area, with focus on the North Valley, through innovative, joint performances of its multigenerational Chorale and Orchestra.
Nurture and amplify the strength and resonance of arizonas choral artistry through live concert experiences performed by professional singers living in arizona, and via recordings and other media for those outside the state to know and…
Free performances of good music by professional musicians for audiences at the city parks.
The four seasons orchestra offers classical music to the general public. the orchestra has performed chamber music and concerts at various venues, including asus kerr cultural center.
Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.
The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.
To provide extraordinary musical experiences that inspire and advance our community, enriching the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds
To provide quality memorable instrumental music to audiences at an affordable price.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Opera Company and the most unlike its peers is Arizona Early Music Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 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 ARIZONA OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Tucson Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds TRUE CONCORD VOICES AND ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAZZ IN JANUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Early Music Society Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Arizona Theatre Company ↗
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: Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · 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 Tucson Desert Song Festival 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.