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William Edwin Hall Foundation Inc at a glance

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William Edwin Hall Foundation Inc

The william e.

$605k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$191kPhilanthropy$110kEducation$98kHuman Services$97kHealth$96kYouth Development$30kInternational$25kAnimals$20k
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $540,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $604,610 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $64,610 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

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOFT CINEMA INC$75,000
THERAPEUTIC RIDING OF TUCSON INC$75,000
THE LEARNING COMMUNITY FOR LOSS$50,000
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS TUCSON$50,000
LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP$50,000
TUCSON PRESIDIO TRUST FOR HISTORIC$40,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TUCSON$30,000
SOUTHERN ARIZONA FRIENDS OF JUNG$25,000
GLOBALMINDED$25,000
PEO INTERNATIONAL$25,000
THE HAVEN$15,000
ALLIANCE FUND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION$10,000
ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM INC$10,000
WHERE PASSION MEETS PURPOSE$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $87k) 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%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $9k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $9k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $9k → 15%THE LEARNING COMMUNITY FOR LOSS: $50k → 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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$166k · 4 repeat orgs$441k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
1

Total granted

$166k
$6k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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
    4× · 2017–2022 · $37k · revenue +11%
  • SU
    Sunnyside Unified School District Foundation
    3× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue ×24
  • RP
    REID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TP
    TUCSON PRESIDIO TRUST FOR HISTORIC
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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
Tucson Values Teachers

To elevate the teaching profession in southern arizona by empowering and celebrating prek-12 teacher excellence through community engagement and investment.

Employment
3
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
4
Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum
—
5
Cala Alliance

CelebracinArtstica de lasAmricas(CALA)Alliancecollaborates with artists and arts organizations to nurture artistic talent, focusing onartistsfrom the Latin American diaspora.Through innovative artist residencies, commissions, community…

Arts & Culture
6
Arizona Theatre Company

ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.

Arts & Culture
7
Tucson Investigative Reporting Center Inc

The Tucson Investigative Reporting Center educates and informs Southern Arizonans about the community challenges & unique culture of our borderlands through independent local journalism.

Animals
8
Tucson Botanical Gardens

Tucson botanical gardens connects people with plants and nature through art, science, history and culture.

Environment
9
Arizona Site Steward Program Foundation
Education
10
The Dons of Arizona
Education
11
Tucson Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation
—
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 Educational Enrichment Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Learning Community for Loss Grief and Transition. 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

19 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. 19 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
8/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCS…Live Theatre Workshop: $50,000 · Arts & CultureLive Theatre WorkshopWHERE PASION MEETS PURPOSE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWHERE PASION MEETS PURPO…ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MU…TUCSON PRESIDIO TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $40,000 · OtherTUCSON PRESIDIO TRUST F…Sunnyside Unified School District Foundation: $28,000 · OtherSunnyside Unified Schoo…PEO Program for Continuing Education: $25,000 · OtherPEO Program for Continu…SOUTHERN ARIZONA FRIENDS OF JUNG: $25,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ARIZONA FRIEND…THE HAVEN: $15,000 · OtherTHE HAVENTUCSON PRESIDIO TRUST FOR HISTORIC: $6,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $60,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATI…SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS TUCSON: $50,000 · PhilanthropySOCIAL VENTURE PAR…Learning Community for Loss Grief and Transition: $50,000 · Human ServicesLearning Communi…EASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $37,000 · Human ServicesEASTERSEALS BLAK…OWL & PANTHER: $10,000 · Human ServicesOWL & PANTHERTherapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc: $81,000 · Recreation & SportsTherapeutic R…GLOBALMINDED: $25,000 · EducationLITERACY CONNECTS: $10,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $19,500 · Animals
Arts & Culture$145,000Other$139,000Philanthropy$110,000Human Services$97,000Recreation & Sports$81,000Education$45,000Youth Development$30,000Animals$19,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTherapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc: $81,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLive Theatre Workshop: $50,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS TUCSON: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetLearning Community for Loss Grief and Transition: $50,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetTUCSON PRESIDIO TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $40,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetEASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSunnyside Unified School District Foundation: $28,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetPEO Program for Continuing Education: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAVEN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHERE PASION MEETS PURPOSE: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 …Connie Hillman Family…Arizona Community Fou…Margaret E Mooney Fou…Marshall FoundationSocial Venture Partne…The Hs Lopez Family F…United Way of Tucson …Tucson Osteopathic Me…Fred & Christine Arms…Angel Charity for Chi…Donald Pitt Family Fo…
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ31.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Margaret E Mooney Foundation · Marshall Foundation · Social Venture Partners Tucson · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Angel Charity for Children Inc · Donald Pitt Family 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 William Edwin Hall Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Edwin Hall Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

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    Find your warmest path to William Edwin Hall Foundation Inc 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 21 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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