Arts Foundation for Tucson
Tucson, AZ · EIN 86-0465675. Reported 67 grants totalling $678,802 to 63 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, 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 Arts Foundation for Tucson, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A260) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 63 distinct organizations, with 3% 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 big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $9,995 and $10,000; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Womens Chorus | Tucson, AZ | $20,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Limberlost Neighborhood Association | Tucson, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Splinter Art and Community Fund | Tucson, AZ | $19,500 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bisbee Community Chorus | Bisbee, AZ | $19,467 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dancing in the Streets Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Drop Dance Studio Inc | Tucson, AZ | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Live Theatre Workshop | Tucson, AZ | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Literary Translators Assn | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arizona Friends of Chamber Music | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arizona Theatre Company | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Art State Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arts Express | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bi-National Arts Institute | Naco, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central School Project Inc | Bisbee, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chax Press Inc | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cowtown Skate | Tempe, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dancesequences Inc | Oro Valley, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dunbar Coalition Inc | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Esperanza Dance Project | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foundation for Creative Broadcasting Inc | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Funhouse Movement Theater | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Groundworks Tucson | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jazz in January Inc | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Land With No Name Sanctuary | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Literacy Connects | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Many Mouths One Stomach | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Multivrs Is Illuminated | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Museum of Contemporary Art | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance Inc | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Reach for the Stars | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Reframe Youth Arts Center | Phoenix, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Reveille Gay Mens Chorus | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rogue Theatre | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Santa Cruz Valley Art Association Inc | Tubac, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre Inc | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sculpturetucson Org Inc | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Society for Bevel Intentions Inc | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Carlos Apache Tribe | San Carlos, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Triangle L Art Ranch Inc | Oracle, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| True Concord Voices and Orchestra Inc | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tucson Childrens Museum Inc | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tucson Masterworks Chorale | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tucson Symphony Society | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tucson Youth Music Center | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Willcox Theater and Arts Inc | Willcox, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Warehouse Arts Management Org | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Zuzi | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Safos Dance Theatre | Tucson, AZ | $9,995 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Invisible Theatre | Tucson, AZ | $9,976 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Drawing Studio Inc | Tucson, AZ | $9,964 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson | Tucson, AZ | $9,958 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Winding Road Theater Ensemble | Tucson, AZ | $9,880 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tucson Pops Orchestra | Tucson, AZ | $9,868 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tucson Erotica | Tucson, AZ | $9,820 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dream School Co Southern Arizona Gender Alliance Inc | Tucson, AZ | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Native American Church of Southern Arizona Inc | Tucson, AZ | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Santa Cruz Advocates for the Arts | Nogales, AZ | $9,392 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ocotillo Literary Endeavors Inc | Tucson, AZ | $9,217 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| La Linea Art Studio | Nogales, AZ | $9,034 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Patrons of the Arts Inc | Nogales, AZ | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus | Tucson, AZ | $8,231 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
2 of 63 (3%) received money in more than one year over the 2 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 57 of 63 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 | 12 | $123,467 | $9,750 |
| 2023 | 55 | $555,335 | $10,000 |
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
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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 $10,000 -- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Arts Foundation for Tucson's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 55 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: 525 N Bonita Avenue, Tucson, AZ, 85745.
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