· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -64%
- PCPARENT CONNECTIONone grant, 2017 · $153k
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES - TUCSONone grant, 2018 · $136k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
213 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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