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Zuckerman Community Outreach Foundation
The ZUCKERMAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH FOUNDATION (foundation) supports local and national charitable organizations that promote both health and wellness as well as creative and artistic endeavors.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of ZUCKERMAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $139k
- $250k+2 grants · $6.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZUCKERMAN COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUN | $3,340,624 |
| Z FUND AT COMMUNITY FOUND FOR S AZ | $3,340,624 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES | $15,000 |
| TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERV | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC | $15,000 |
| DIAPER BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $15,000 |
| EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC AB | $15,000 |
| PRIMAVERA FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| JR EL TOUR INC | $15,000 |
| TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC | $14,000 |
| EL RIO HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WRIGHT FLIGHT INC | $10,000 |
| INTEGRATIVE TOUCH FOR KIDS | $7,500 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $7,500 |
| BLAIR CHARITY GROUP | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–19, $88k) 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.
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 +73% since the first grant, against +71% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2019, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.7M 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
- TPThe Primavera Foundation Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $44k · revenue +54%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +172%
- ADArizona Diaper Bank3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- TGTucson Girls Chorus Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +133%
- LCLITERACY CONNECTSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +71%
- HHHELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS USAone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tucson Centers for Women & Children Inc Dba Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse and the most unlike its peers is Wright Flight Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 25 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 JR EL TOUR INC ↗
- Who funds TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Diaper Bank ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds EL GRUPO YOUTH CYCLING ↗
- Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Integrative Touch ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON ↗
- Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN CENTERS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Community Home Repair Projects of Arizona ↗
- Who funds AMISTAD Y SALUD ↗
- Who funds Bag It ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds Dancing in the Streets Arizona ↗
- Who funds Tucson Girls Chorus Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds Homicide Survivors Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS USA ↗
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 · Arizona Community Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Angel Charity for Children Inc · The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Zuckerman Family Foundation · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Absolon Foundation · Tucson Medical Center
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 Zuckerman Community Outreach 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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