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Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation

Tucson, AZ · EIN 74-2449503. Reported 33 grants totalling $258,700 to 22 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$6,860median grant
$258,700granted, 2020-2023
22organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$11.5Massets, latest filing

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. Tucson Osteopathic Medical 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.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $6,860. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $15,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
7 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
15 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
11 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
At Still UniversityKirksville, MO$52,500442023
Midwestern UniversityGlendale, AZ$52,500442023
Burrell College of Osteopathic MedicineLas Cruces, NM$47,500442023
Arivaca Human ResourceArivaca, AZ$15,000222023
St Luke's HomeTucson, AZ$8,400222021
Easterseals Blake FoundationTucson, AZ$7,500112022
The HavenTucson, AZ$7,500112022
Culture of Peace and AllianceTucson, AZ$6,860112023
Touchstone Health ServicesPhoenix, AZ$6,850112022
Beads of CourageTucson, AZ$5,200112023
Boys and Girls Club of TucsonTucson, AZ$5,000112020
Culture of Peace Alliance IncTucson, AZ$5,000112021
Green Valley Assistant ServicesGreen Valley, AZ$5,000112020
Integrative Healthcare SolutionsTucson, AZ$5,000112021
Southern Arizona Association for the Visually ImpairedTucson, AZ$5,000112021
YWCA of Southern ArizonaTucson, AZ$5,000112023
Community Gardens of TucsonTucson, AZ$4,915112020
Tucson Postpartum Depression CoalitionTucson, AZ$3,500112022
Tucson Interfaith Hivaids Network IncTucson, AZ$3,475112021
American Academy of OsteopathyIndianapolis, IN$3,000112023
Arizona Healthiest State FoundationPhoenix, AZ$3,000112021
Literacy ConnectsTucson, AZ$1,000112021

5 of 22 (23%) 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 50%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
7 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Diseases & Disorders
2 grants
Mental Health
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Youth Development
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20207$52,415$5,000
202110$55,875$5,000
20228$77,850$7,500
20238$72,560$7,180

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. 60% 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.

Arizona
$156K
Missouri
$52K
New Mexico
$48K
Indiana
$3K

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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.

Community Foundation for8 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund5 shared recipientsArizona Community Foundation5 shared recipientsThe Hs Lopez Family Foundation5 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc4 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $6,860. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Arizona.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 3182 N Swan Road, Tucson, AZ, 85712. 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.

EIN 74-2449503 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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