Arizona · 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.
- $146k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $136k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $905k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Tucson Desert Song Festival funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $136k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $120k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $102k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $79k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $56k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Opera Company | $145,300 | 6 | 1% |
| Tucson Symphony Society | $91,000 | 6 | 0% |
| True Concord Voices and Orchestra Inc | $66,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Ballet Arts Foundation | $51,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Tucson Guitar Society | $40,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Jazz in January Inc | $38,250 | 4 | 4% |
| Arizona Early Music Society Inc | $33,200 | 5 | 8% |
| Arizona Friends of Chamber Music | $25,000 | 4 | 2% |
| University of Arizona Foundation | $24,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Arizona | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Opera Company | $145,300 | 6 | 1% |
| Tucson Symphony Society | $91,000 | 6 | 0% |
| True Concord Voices and Orchestra Inc | $66,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Ballet Arts Foundation | $51,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Tucson Guitar Society | $40,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Jazz in January Inc | $38,250 | 4 | 4% |
| Arizona Early Music Society Inc | $33,200 | 5 | 8% |
| Arizona Friends of Chamber Music | $25,000 | 4 | 2% |
| University of Arizona Foundation | $24,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Arizona | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Arizona Theatre Company | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tucson Unified School District | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tucson Desert Song Festival supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Tucson Desert Song Festival
- How much does Tucson Desert Song Festival give?
- Tucson Desert Song Festival reported 9 itemized grants totaling $135,750, out of $145,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Tucson Desert Song Festival fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Education (3%).
- Who are Tucson Desert Song Festival's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arizona Opera Company ($145k), Tucson Symphony Society ($91k), True Concord Voices and Orchestra Inc ($67k).
- Does Tucson Desert Song Festival fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tucson Desert Song Festival?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona, Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Tucson Desert Song Festival based?
- Tucson Desert Song Festival is based in AZ.
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