Arizona Strut
Tempe, AZ · EIN 86-0977732. Reported 60 grants totalling $1,632,203 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Arizona Strut, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B90) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 27% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $14,325. Half of what it reported fell between $8,138 and $38,360; the smallest was $5,117 and the largest $137,565. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
60 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,609,703 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Canyon University Cityserve | Phoenix, AZ | $191,965 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Comp-U-Dopt Inc | Houston, TX | $148,850 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Computers 4 Kids | W Sacramento, CA | $137,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Shadow Rock Congregational Church | Phoenix, AZ | $134,895 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Others (63) Under Reporting Threshold | $100,120 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Chicanos Por La Causa Inc | Phoenix, AZ | $83,792 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Focus Employment (techlifeskills Grant) | Tempe, AZ | $75,370 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Others Under Reporting Threshold | $70,710 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| The Welcome to America Project | Tempe, AZ | $70,665 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Gen Tech | Phoenix, AZ | $63,810 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Others Under 5K Threshold | $59,304 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Pcs for Refugees | Tempe, AZ | $56,990 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| We Care Tucson | Tucson, AZ | $49,010 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Joseph City Unified School District #2 | Joseph City, AZ | $44,280 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| East Valley Institute of Technology Education Foundation Inc | Mesa, AZ | $34,299 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Legion | Phoenix, AZ | $24,845 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwest Christian School | Phoenix, AZ | $23,275 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hopi Junior Senior High School | Kearns Canyon, AZ | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Westwood High School | Mesa, AZ | $19,657 | 3 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yavapai Accommodation School District | Prescott, AZ | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| South Mountain Community College | Mesa, AZ | $17,380 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Arouet Foundation | Phoenix, AZ | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lead Charter Schools | Gilbert, AZ | $14,650 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Intelli-School | Phoenix, AZ | $12,243 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regenerating Sonora Inc | Superior, AZ | $12,060 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Smart Schools Inc | Gilbert, AZ | $11,620 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest | Phoenix, AZ | $11,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ala Tech | Mesa, AZ | $10,925 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Maricopa High School | Maricopa, AZ | $10,476 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eduprize Schools Parent Teacher Network Association | Queen Creek, AZ | $9,530 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Quartzsite School District | Ehrenberg, AZ | $9,113 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Self Development Eastmark Academy | Mesa, AZ | $8,580 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Washington Elementary School District | Glendale, AZ | $8,138 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beaver Dam High School | Beaver Dam, AZ | $7,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Peoria | Peoria, AZ | $6,920 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Winslow Guidance Associates Inc | Winslow, AZ | $6,827 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dobson High School Orpheus Society | Mesa, AZ | $6,237 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Crismon High School Parent Teacher Organization - PTO | Queen Creek, AZ | $6,050 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vita Education Foundation | Phoenix, AZ | $5,900 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cactus High School Afjrotc Booster Club | Peoria, AZ | $5,827 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Navajo County Library District | Holbrook, AZ | $5,490 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
11 of 41 (27%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- We Care Tucson
Schools Education Nonprofit Support
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | $80,798 | $12,243 |
| 2022 | 25 | $498,231 | $10,476 |
| 2023 | 14 | $573,981 | $30,882 |
| 2024 | 16 | $479,193 | $15,250 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
80% of its giving went to organizations in Arizona. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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 grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $14,325 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Arizona.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Arizona Strut's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 78 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 3025 S 48TH St Ste 102, Tempe, AZ, 85282.
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