Elizabeth Read Taylor Foundation
Tucson, AZ · EIN 86-0316798. Reported 68 grants totalling $347,500 to 28 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Elizabeth Read Taylor Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $4,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $6,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Home Repair Projects | Tucson, AZ | $63,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Amerind Foundation Inc | Dragoon, AZ | $37,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tucson Botanical Gardens | Tucson, AZ | $22,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Oregon Environmental Council | Portland, OR | $21,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Tucson Jewish Community Center | Tucson, AZ | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Youth on Their Own | Tucson, AZ | $19,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Marshall Home for Men | Tucson, AZ | $17,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sisters of the Road | Portland, OR | $17,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Interfaith Community Services | Tucson, AZ | $15,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Tucson | Tucson, AZ | $13,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Integrative Touch for Kids | Tucson, AZ | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| CASA Esperanza Para Ninos | San Diego, CA | $11,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cymaspace | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beacon Group | Tucson, AZ | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wa Franke Honors College | Tucson, AZ | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mobile Meals of Tucson | Tucson, AZ | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Luke's Home Inc | Tucson, AZ | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Oregon Environment Council | Portland, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Our Family Services | Tucson, AZ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Literacy Connects | Tucson, AZ | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The University of Arizona Honors College | Tucson, AZ | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Habitat for Humanity | Tucson, AZ | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Children's Clinics Southern Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Easterseals Blake Foundation | Tucson, AZ | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Civic Orchestra of Tucson | Tucson, AZ | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Miracle Flights for Kids | Green Valley, NV | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sun Sounds of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tucson Interfaith Hivaids Network | Tucson, AZ | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
16 of 28 (57%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 81%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Community Home Repair Projects
Creating safer places to live by addressing health & safety concerns with efficient home repairs and adaptations. - Amerind Foundation Inc
SUPPORT MUSEUM, ART GALLERY, AND RESEARCH CENTER DEDICATED TO ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATIVE CULTURES - The Tucson Jewish Community Center
SUPPORT TO CULTIVATE AND ENRICH JEWISH IDENTITY, ENSURE JEWISH CONTINUITY, FOSTER WELLNESS, AND BROADEN COMMUNAL HARMONY - Cymaspace
Make arts, media and culture accessible and inclusive to the Deaf community through technology, education, and outreach. - Oregon Environmental Council
PROTECT THE WATER, AIR, AND LAND OF OREGON - Tucson Botanical Gardens
Support horticultural and ecological education
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 16 | $80,500 | $4,750 |
| 2022 | 14 | $75,500 | $4,750 |
| 2023 | 17 | $90,500 | $4,000 |
| 2024 | 21 | $101,000 | $4,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 81% of this one's giving went to organizations in Arizona. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $4,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Arizona.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Elizabeth Read Taylor Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 7440 N Oracle Rd Bldg 2, Tucson, AZ, 85704. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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