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Vance Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$93kArts & Culture$81kHealth$75kHuman Services$67kCommunity Improvement$53kYouth Development$43kRecreation & Sports$33kPhilanthropy$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TUCSON$30,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$25,000
ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
TUCSON HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $10k → 12%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $6k → 15%YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $16k → 15%YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $10k → 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.
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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$87k · 5 repeat orgs$414k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
23

Total granted

$87k
$353k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+8%

Still filing today

80%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • University of Arizona Foundation
    3× · 2018–2021 · $28k · revenue +19%
  • YO
    YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA
    2× · 2018–2019 · $26k · revenue -11%
  • TC
    TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON
    2× · 2017–2018 · $12k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • AD
    Arizona Daily Star Sportsmens Fund Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue +112%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $28k
  • TW
    TUCSON WOMAN'S CLUB 501(C)(4)
    one grant, 2017 · $28k
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 Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
3
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
4
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
—
5
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
6
Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Social Venture Partners Tucson

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…

Philanthropy
8
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
9
Arizona Site Steward Program Foundation
Education
10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southern Arizona; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arizona Daily Star Sportsmens Fund Inc: $33,000 · OtherArizona Daily Star Sportsmens Fund IncCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TUCSON: $30,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TUCSONJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $28,400 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTTUCSON WOMAN'S CLUB 501(C)(4): $28,000 · OtherTUCSON WOMAN'S CLUB 501(C)(4)PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCTOHONO O'ODHAM NATION SAN XAVIER DISTRICT: $25,000 · OtherTOHONO O'ODHAM NATION SAN XAVIER DISTRICTPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $25,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $10,000 · OtherLEND A HAND: $10,000 · OtherPPEP HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HOMELESS SHELTER: $10,000 · OtherMINI TIME MACHINE MUSEUM: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $16,000 · Other+4 moreUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $27,500 · EducationUniversity of Ar…STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC: $25,000 · EducationSTEP STUDENT EXP…City Center for Collaborative Learning: $15,000 · EducationCity Center for …Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $10,000 · EducationSouthern AZ Rese…YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $26,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF S…NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL …Pima Council on Aging: $6,000 · Human ServicesPima Coun…EL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyEL RIO FO…United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $12,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Wa…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON: $12,400 · Arts & CultureTRUE CONCORD VOICES AND ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHAX PRESS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureSUN SOUNDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBanner Alzheimer's Foundation: $25,000 · HealthArizona Diaper Bank: $15,000 · ReligionCommunity Food Bank Inc: $11,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$270,400Education$77,500Human Services$42,000Philanthropy$42,000Arts & Culture$34,900Health$25,000Religion$15,000Food & Nutrition$11,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArizona Daily Star Sportsmens Fund Inc: $33,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBanner Alzheimer's Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetArizona Diaper Bank: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCity Center for Collaborative Learning: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON: $12,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTRUE CONCORD VOICES AND ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPima Council on Aging: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUN SOUNDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 …Absolon FoundationJewish Community Foun…Connie Hillman Family…The Hs Lopez Family F…Arizona Community Fou…Marshall FoundationMartin & Hildegard Gl…Tucson Medical CenterDonald Pitt Family Fo…The Stocker FoundationThe George Mason Gree…
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ27.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Vance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Vance Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Vance Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 34 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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