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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.

$6.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
78
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$32MEducation$15MHousing & Shelter$2.1MHealth$1.6MEmployment$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.5MFood & Nutrition$1.4MArts & Culture$1.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 78 grants below total $6,766,349, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,917,925 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $151,576 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $151k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $691k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.8M
$17,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $69k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $24k → 14%PASCUA YAQUI TRIBE CHARITABLE ORG: $28k → 15%YMCA of Southern Arizona (Lohse Family YMCA): $21k → 15%DIRECT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $40k → 15%DIRECT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $40k → 15%ROOTS & ROADS COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $22k → 15%DIRECT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $20k → 15%VAIL UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $48k → 15%Vail Unified School District: $33k → 15%VAIL UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $31k → 15%CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES - TUCSON: $839k → 15%CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES - TUCSON: $824k → 15%CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES - TUCSON: $812k → 15%CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES - TUCSON: $787k → 15%CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $780k → 15%Child & Family Resources: $693k → 15%CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES - TUCSON: $622k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $24k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $23k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $32k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $29k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $28k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $25k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $23k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $22k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $22k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $21k → 15%ARIZONA CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $154k → 15%Easter Seals Blake Foundation: $1.2M → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $770k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $768k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $701k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $672k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $664k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $658k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $566k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $187k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $172k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $168k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $153k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $141k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $132k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $117k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $105k → 15%Pima Council on Aging: $103k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57M · 182 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

182
120

Total granted

$57M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+12%

Still filing today

64%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EB
    EASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +11%
  • CF
    CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $5.4M · revenue +52%
  • University of Arizona Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • AC
    ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $154k · revenue -64%
  • PC
    PARENT CONNECTION
    one grant, 2017 · $153k
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - TUCSON
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
2
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
3
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
4
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…

Philanthropy
5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health
7
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
8
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
9
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
10
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health
11
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

—
12
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Arizona Inc; the most unlike its peers is Catlow 1927 Foundation. 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

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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
48
Early backer (in before they grew)
193/213
Grantees still filing
134/213
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUNNYSIDE FOUNDATION: $2,309,643 · OtherSUNNYSIDE FOUNDATIONCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES - TUCSON: $1,719,975 · OtherCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES - TUCSONSUNNYSIDE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1,579,669 · OtherSUNNYSIDE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTGoodwill Industries of Southern AZ Inc: $1,268,641 · OtherGoodwill Industries of Southern AZ IncAMPHITHEATER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1,050,821 · OtherOur Family Services Inc: $936,364 · OtherCatholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc: $862,843 · OtherSUNNYSIDE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $809,921 · Other+126 more: $11,380,311 · Other+126 moreEASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $6,976,019 · Human ServicesEASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATIONCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $5,357,346 · Human ServicesCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INCPima Council on Aging: $1,277,243 · Human ServicesPima Council on Aging+12 more: $1,236,500 · Human Services+12 moreCASA DE LOS NINOS: $11,662,745 · Youth DevelopmentCASA DE LOS NINOS+2 more: $281,548 · Youth DevelopmentUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $1,382,387 · EducationUniversity …Make Way For Books: $1,289,463 · EducationMake Way Fo…LITERACY CONNECTS: $971,370 · EducationLITERACY CO…EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP: $762,756 · EducationEARLY CHILD…TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $638,797 · EducationTOHONO O'OD…CHILD PARENT CENTERS: $371,845 · EducationCHILD PAREN…+13 more: $459,513 · Education+13 moreUnited Way Capital Corporation: $947,367 · Housing & ShelterThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $676,760 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY HOUSING RESOURCES INC: $283,770 · Housing & ShelterHabitat for Humanity Tucson Inc: $99,725 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $22,000 · Housing & ShelterPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $193,628 · HealthGreen Valley Assistance Services Inc: $153,966 · HealthPIMA PREVENTION PARTNERSHIP: $119,364 · HealthMarana Health Center Inc: $91,938 · HealthSouthern Arizona AIDS Foundation: $70,798 · HealthTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $67,156 · HealthIntegrative Touch: $50,224 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $48,162 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $45,626 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $43,750 · HealthBanner Health Foundation: $36,188 · Health+6 more: $152,170 · HealthArizona Theatre Company: $435,550 · Arts & CultureTucson Symphony Society: $92,270 · Arts & CultureTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC: $87,300 · Arts & CultureBRANDY STATION FOUNDATION: $73,000 · Arts & CultureCATLOW 1927 FOUNDATION: $56,005 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $51,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$21,918,188Human Services$14,847,108Youth Development$11,944,293Education$5,876,131Housing & Shelter$2,029,622Health$1,072,970Arts & Culture$795,625

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCASA DE LOS NINOS: $11,662,745 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetEASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $6,976,019 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $5,357,346 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $1,382,387 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMake Way For Books: $1,289,463 over 9y, 11% of budgetPima Council on Aging: $1,277,243 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Southern AZ Inc: $1,268,641 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $971,370 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetUnited Way Capital Corporation: $947,367 over 2y, 44% of budgetOur Family Services Inc: $936,364 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetCatholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc: $862,843 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP: $762,756 over 7y, 99% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $676,760 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetParent Aid - Child Abuse Prevention Center: $650,012 over 9y, 59% of budgetTOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $638,797 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTHERN AZ ASSOC FOR THE ED OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $599,065 over 7y, 92% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $549,643 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetInterfaith Community Services: $488,322 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetArizona Theatre Company: $435,550 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetYWCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $377,281 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetCHILD PARENT CENTERS: $371,845 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society of Southern Arizona: $368,165 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetFAMILY HOUSING RESOURCES INC: $283,770 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC: $254,996 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetSAHUARITA FOOD BANK: $242,693 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $217,620 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $193,628 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $188,866 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST: $165,653 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $154,080 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreen Valley Assistance Services Inc: $153,966 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetRoots & Roads Community Hospice Foundation: $136,491 over 3y, 25% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SONORAN DESERT ALLIANCE: $136,102 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetDirect Center for Independence Inc: $128,354 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $125,506 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPIMA PREVENTION PARTNERSHIP: $119,364 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR POTTSTOWN EDUCATION: $115,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetThe Hermitage No Kill Cat Shelter: $112,261 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $107,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Tucson Inc: $99,725 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $97,658 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $93,459 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTucson Symphony Society: $92,270 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMarana Health Center Inc: $91,938 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $91,818 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC: $87,300 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBorder Patrol Foundation: $80,832 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetStep Up To Justice: $75,210 over 2y, 10% of budget
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.

Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ151.6× affinity90 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 315 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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