Arizona · Nonprofit
Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona
Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,228 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Arts Foundation provides funding and services to artists, arts organizations and community members residing in the City Tucson, Pima County, and the Southern Arizona region. We serve artists and their communities through programming, funding, public art management, and collaboration. We aim to reach and engage both urban and rural communities, knowing important art is being created in the large cities and small towns of Southern Arizona.
$1,868,888 spentof which $1,082,214 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,868,888.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.8M to $2.9M (+63%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 76% · 2018 96% · 2021 98% · 2022 92% · 2024 93% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100 → $21.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 88% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
64% of Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $24k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona?
- Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,228 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $66,228 in grants to Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing