· Public charity
United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc
Our vision is a community where every child receives a high-quality education from birth to career, every adult has the opportunity to thrive financailly and in the workplace, and every older person can retire and age with dignity and independence.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 78 grants below total $6,766,349 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,917,925 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $151,576 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 $10k25 grants · $151k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $691k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $3.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Casa de los Ninos | $1,235,856 |
| Easter Seals Blake Foundation | $1,176,703 |
| Child & Family Resources | $692,690 |
| Sunnyside Unified School District | $648,037 |
| Goodwill Industries - Tucson | $225,077 |
| Make Way for Books | $206,091 |
| University of Arizona Foundation | $201,398 |
| Amphitheater Public School District | $146,560 |
| Literacy Connects | $146,178 |
| Center for Recruitment & Retention Math Teachers U of A | $136,827 |
| Catholic Community Services - Tucson | $119,096 |
| Sahuarita Food Bank | $108,881 |
| Pima Council on Aging | $103,110 |
| Family Housing Resources | $102,950 |
| University of Arizona Foundation - Cooperative Extension | $100,122 |
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 (FY17–25, $14.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
182 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2025, 114 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- EBEASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +11%
- CFCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $5.4M · revenue +52%
University of Arizona Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +109%
Funded once
- ACARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $154k · revenue -65%
- PCPARENT CONNECTIONone grant, 2017 · $153k
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES - TUCSONone grant, 2018 · $136k
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
213 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. 213 of the 315 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
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
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 CASA DE LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Make Way For Books ↗
- Who funds Pima Council on Aging ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries of Southern AZ Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds United Way Capital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Our Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Parent Aid - Child Abuse Prevention Center ↗
- Who funds TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN AZ ASSOC FOR THE ED OF YOUNG CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds Arizona Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds CHILD PARENT CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC ↗
- Who funds SAHUARITA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
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 · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Marshall Foundation · Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation · Social Venture Partners Tucson · Ginny L Clements Charitable Trust · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Campaigning for Charities · Community Food Bank Inc
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 United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Safe Kids Worldwide — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.