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Vance Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TUCSON | $30,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $25,000 |
| ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| TUCSON HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
University of Arizona Foundation3× · 2018–2021 · $28k · revenue +19%- YOYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA2× · 2018–2019 · $26k · revenue -11%
- TCTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON2× · 2017–2018 · $12k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- ADArizona Daily Star Sportsmens Fund Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue +112%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTone grant, 2020 · $28k
- TWTUCSON WOMAN'S CLUB 501(C)(4)one grant, 2017 · $28k
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
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.
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…
The Arts Foundation mission is to advance artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture in our region.
Svp tucson is an ever expanding community of engaged philanthropists dedicated to building the capacity, strength and impact of nonprofits in addressing social problems. we accomplish this through: thoughtful and strategic investments and…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
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…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southern Arizona and the most unlike its peers is Chax Press Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 34 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
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 Arizona Daily Star Sportsmens Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Banner Alzheimer's Foundation ↗
- Who funds STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Diaper Bank ↗
- Who funds City Center for Collaborative Learning ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON ↗
- Who funds United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN ↗
- Who funds TRUE CONCORD VOICES AND ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHAX PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds Pima Council on Aging ↗
- Who funds SUN SOUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds TUCSON HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Absolon Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Marshall Foundation · Martin & Hildegard Gluck Foundation · Tucson Medical Center · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · The Stocker Foundation · The George Mason Green and Lois C Green 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 Vance 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.
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.
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