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Student Competitions & Academic Challenges

01 Student Competitions & Academic Challenges · 71 edit slice
22
orgs
71
activities
1
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 22 organizations and 71 activities — EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE, VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, ARIZONA HYDROLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUND, Arizona Chapter-American Concrete and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (77%) and California (23%). The field's most common shared approach is "Revenue & Representation Balance", run by 1 orgs.
EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE and VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
pull-quote · for funders
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 77% · 17 orgs
California 23% · 5 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 22

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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.

2026 Art Contest sponsor (not named) 1
Corporate
ACELYRIN, INC 1
Individuals
ACELYRIN, INC 1
Corporate
AEG 1
Corporate
APS 1
Corporate
Alumni 1
Individuals
Alvarez & Marsal 1
Corporate
AmeriCorps 1
Government
Arizona Leveraging Educational Assistance Program (LEAP) 1
Government
Arizona Project WET 1
Corporate
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum 1
Foundation
Bureau of Indian Affairs 1
Government
California Department of Education 1
Government
Central Arizona Project (CAP) 1
Corporate
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
Revenue & Representation Balance
1
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 State University Partner
shared by 5 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 5 orgs
Northern Arizona University Partner
shared by 4 orgs
CFA Institute Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Grand Canyon University Partner
shared by 2 orgs
SkillsUSA Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Terracon Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Wild Apricot Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Wild Apricot Government
shared by 2 orgs
ABC 7 News Partner
shared by 1 org
ACELYRIN, INC Funder
shared by 1 org
ACI International Partner
shared by 1 org
AEG Partner
shared by 1 org
AIA Partner
shared by 1 org
AICCU (Associated Independent Colleges of California) Coalition
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.

23K
People served
from 7 orgs
3K
students served
from 2 orgs
876
Partner organizations
from 11 orgs
776
Staff
from 8 orgs
101
Countries served
from 2 orgs