Arizona Scope of the Sector

grantmaking

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Where do the grant dollars go?

Arizona’s top twenty grantmakers awarded approximately 3,779 cash grants in 2011, which totaled $364.18 million dollars and represents approximately half of all cash grants made by Arizona-based grantmakers. The charts below illustrate the causes these grant dollars supported, how much of the funding remained in Arizona, and a county-level breakdown of grant funding.

Grant Dollars Awarded by Top 20 Arizona-Based Grantmakers: by Arizona County (based on recipient organizations’ addresses)

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Grant Dollars Awarded in Arizona by Top 20 Arizona-Based Grantmakers: Arizona vs. Out-of-State vs. International (based on recipient organizations’ addresses)

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The majority of grant dollars, $175 million were awarded to nonprofit organizations. Schools received $16.1 million (this includes scholarships for individuals to attend school) and government agencies received 2.8 million. Note: "Schools" may include some nonprofit or for-profit schools.

Grant Dollars Awarded in Arizona by Top 20 Arizona-Based Grantmakers: by Grantee Organization Type (based on recipient organizations’ NTEE code)

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Grant Recipients by Causes Supported

Grant Dollars Awarded in Arizona by Top 20 Arizona-Based Grantmakers: by Grantee Organization Type

Total: $191.1 Million

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The pie charts below provide a closer look at grant dollar recipients by grantee types including environment, health and science, human support, and community building.

A Closer Look: Environment

Total:$7.7 Million

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A Closer Look: Health and Science

Total:$22.2 Million

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A Closer Looks: Human Support

Total:$62.1 Million

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*Human Service organizations may include youth focused programs and services.

A Closer Look: Community Building

Total:$7.7 Million

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Notes and limitations: This report details the grants awarded by the 20 Arizona grantmakers with the highest amounts of cash grants. Detail on each grant was entered manually from each grantmakers’ form 990; in some cases, the organization provided us an electronic copy of their 990 grants schedule. For the purposes of this analysis, the following were removed from grant totals: in-kind (noncash) grants, payments that appeared to be contracts or fees-for-services, and payments to same-named affiliates or foundations.
The analysis of grant funding by Arizona county is based on recipient organizations’ addresses. An organization’s address does not always directly correspond to the counties for which it provides services; this is especially true for some of the organizations located in Maricopa county, several of which provide services in other parts of Arizona. Similarly, the analysis of grant funding by organization type is based on the recipient organization’s main NTEE code, however, many nonprofit organizations provide services across many different service types. This analysis does not include cash grants awarded by out-of-state foundations to organizations in Arizona, a few of which provide significant grant dollars to Arizona-based organizations. This report utilized our Grantmakers database and our Arizona Nonprofits database, both of which incorporate data obtained from the National Center for Charitable Statistics and Guidestar.

For more information on sources and methodology please refer to Glossary and Sources.