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University of Arizona Foundation

The University of Arizona Foundation is committed to supporting and enhancing the vision, mission and values of the university of arizona through the development and management of private support.

$152M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$149M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$873MHealth$1.2MCrime & Legal$1.1MHuman Services$497kEnvironment$163kRecreation & Sports$127kArts & Culture$104kHousing & Shelter$103kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
  • $250k+3 grants · $152M
$2,342,742
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$149,102,432
TUCSON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$2,342,742
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$1,000,000
SARSEF$22,814
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $376k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AYUDA INC: $19k → 21%AYUDA INC: $8k → 21%FLOWERS AND BULLETS: $200k → 15%FLOWERS AND BULLETS: $100k → 15%YMCA SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $50k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$875M · 28 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
15

Total granted

$875M
$563k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+28%

Still filing today

82%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
EducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • AI
    ARIZONA INITIATIVE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE LAW
    2× · 2019–2021 · $547k · revenue +577% · 100% of their budget
  • TO
    TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $336k · revenue +172%
  • NA
    NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $118k · revenue +366%

Funded once

  • BH
    Banner Health Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
  • EI
    EDGEMAKERS INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $90k · revenue -100% · 40% of their budget
  • SU
    SUNNYSIDE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · $82k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Arizona Forward Association

Arizona Forward brings business and civic leaders together to promote cooperative efforts to improve the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of our state and local regions.

Community Improvement
3
Arizona Solar Energy Industries Assoc

AriSEIAs mission is to develop and support policies that create opportunities to advance Arizonas economy through solar energy and storage. AriSEIA advocates for sustainable job creation in deployment of solar and complementary…

Arts & Culture
4
Arizona Site Steward Program Foundation
Education
5
Arizona Sustainability Alliance

To create and support cutting-edge, project-based sustainability solutions in arizona.

Environment
6
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
7
University of Arizona Alumni Association

Cultivate lifelong connections, strengthen commitment to the university and inspire advocacy, engagement and giving.

—
8
Arizona Regional Economic Development Foundation

Preservation and strengthening of the regional economy through initiatives focused on industry recruitment, expansion and development. The mission is accomplished by providing consulting services, promotion of special events, and leasing…

Community Improvement
9
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
—
10
University of Arizona Foundation

The university of arizona foundation is committed to supporting and enhancing the vision, mission and values of the university of arizona through the development and management of private support.

Education
11
Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
12
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Southern Arizona and the most unlike its peers is Edgemakers Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVeterans Service Organizati…Labor Union OrganizationsYouth Sports ProgramsDisability Services & Suppo…Dallas Community Organizati…Education Scholarships & Gr…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%3%<5yr16%6%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr15%42%20–35yr11%6%35–55yr11%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%1%<5yr16%24%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr11%1%35–55yr11%39%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
16%
3,933/25,133

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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 45 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/41
Grantees still filing
26/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $869,862,435 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA+20 more — $3,692,985 · OtherAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000,000 · HealthBanner Health Foundation — $200,394 · Health+2 more — $12,599 · HealthTOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $335,839 · EducationEXPECT MORE ARIZONA — $125,000 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $117,821 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC — $28,600 · EducationPAINTED DESERT DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS INC — $27,400 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $23,000 · Education+2 more — $28,965 · EducationARIZONA INITIATIVE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE LAW — $547,153 · Crime & LegalStep Up To Justice — $57,170 · Crime & LegalFLOWERS AND BULLETS — $300,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $49,894 · Human ServicesAYUDA INC — $26,350 · Human ServicesTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT — $66,330 · EnvironmentSONORA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $55,936 · EnvironmentFriends of Saguaro National Park — $21,426 · EnvironmentYOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE — $12,474 · EnvironmentRESOURCES LEGACY FUND — $10,000 · EnvironmentDUNBAR COALITION INC — $71,710 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC — $34,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$873,555,420Health$1,212,993Education$686,625Crime & Legal$604,323Human Services$376,244Environment$166,166Recreation & Sports$105,710

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA INITIATIVE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE LAW — $547,153 over 2y, 100% of budgetSOUTHERN ARIZONA LEGAL INITIATIVE INC — $500,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetTOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $335,839 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFLOWERS AND BULLETS — $300,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetBanner Health Foundation — $200,394 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEXPECT MORE ARIZONA — $125,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetYWCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $121,206 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $117,821 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEDGEMAKERS INSTITUTE — $90,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $87,096 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetDUNBAR COALITION INC — $71,710 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT — $66,330 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetStep Up To Justice — $57,170 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetSONORA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $55,936 over 2y, 12% of budgetSister Jose Women's Center — $55,528 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSouthwest Folklife Alliance Inc — $54,839 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetARIZONA WESTERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $52,140 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA — $49,894 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM — $49,082 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC — $34,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRED FEATHER DEVELOPMENT GROUP — $30,826 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC — $28,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAINTED DESERT DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS INC — $27,400 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAYUDA INC — $26,350 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN — $22,814 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFriends of Saguaro National Park — $21,426 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $20,150 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHWEST RESEARCH & INFORMATION CENTER — $18,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Tucson Inc — $16,232 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRED STAR INTERNATIONAL INC — $15,450 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC — $13,202 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE — $12,474 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAE INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA TOWN HALL — $6,893 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetARIZONA ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH CENTER INC — $6,599 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontana State University Billings Foundation & Alumni — $6,151 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACK MARTIN FUND INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Community Foundation …Community Food Bank I…United Way of Tucson …Connie Hillman Family…The Womens Foundation…The David and Lura Lo…The Hs Lopez Family F…Social Venture Partne…The Foundation for Co…Absolon FoundationMarshall Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ34.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Community Food Bank Inc · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona · The David and Lura Lovell · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Social Venture Partners Tucson · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Absolon Foundation · Marshall 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 University of Arizona Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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