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Needs-Based Educational Financial Aid

01 Needs-Based Educational Financial Aid · 78 edit slice
35
orgs
78
activities
18
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 35 organizations and 78 activities — Desert Christian Schools, Amigos De Las Americas - Phoenix, GREATER ARIZONA, NEW WAY ACADEMY and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Holistic Youth Development", run by 8 orgs.
who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 100% · 35 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 35

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direct service advocacy research capacity building
where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

A for Arizona 1
Government
Abbett Family Foundation 1
Foundation
Alliance of Arizona 1
Corporate
Arizona Department of Revenue 1
Government
Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) 1
Government
Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA) 1
Government
Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (AZGOHS) 1
Government
Boys Hope Girls Hope Arizona 1
Corporate
ESA + private scholarships 1
Earned
Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) 1
Government
First Citizens Bank 1
Corporate
Hughes Federal Credit Union 1
Corporate
Members and participants 1
Individuals
Nanubhai Foundation 1
Foundation
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Holistic Youth Development
19
1
Community-Led Systems Change
5
1
Development Through Inclusive Athletics
10
Dignity-Centered Service
9
Experiential Connection
7
Person-Centered Empowerment
6
Apprenticeship-Based Workforce Development
3
Experiential Learning Model
4
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

Arizona Department of Education Government
shared by 5 orgs
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Northern Arizona University Partner
shared by 3 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Alumni Association Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Hughes Federal Credit Union Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Long Realty Cares Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Maricopa Community Colleges Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Pima Community College Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Vantage West Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Vantage West Credit Union Partner
shared by 2 orgs
4.0 Schools Partner
shared by 1 org
A Course in Miracles Network
shared by 1 org
A for Arizona Funder
shared by 1 org
AMIGOS International Network
shared by 1 org
APS Partner
shared by 1 org
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

16.0M
annual revenue
from 3 orgs
10.1M
People served
from 15 orgs
43K
Volunteers
from 2 orgs
873
Staff
from 6 orgs
58
Partner organizations
from 4 orgs