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Local Community Grantmaking

01 Local Community Grantmaking · 156 edit slice
76
orgs
156
activities
23
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 76 organizations and 156 activities — Central Valley Community Foundation, RIO VERDE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, COOK NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES, CREDIT UNION WEST and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (82%) and California (18%). The field's most common shared approach is "Community-Led Design", run by 1 orgs.
Central Valley Community Foundation and RIO VERDE COMMUNITY 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 82% · 62 orgs
California 18% · 14 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 82% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 76

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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.

USDA 2
Government
50/50 Raffle 1
Earned
Airbnb.org 1
Corporate
Alameda County Public Health Department 1
Government
American Eagle Outfitters 1
Corporate
Arizona Charitable Tax Credit 1
Individuals
Arizona Corporation Commission 1
Government
Buck Trust 1
Foundation
CU West CARES Charitable Foundation 1
Foundation
California Department of Developmental Services 1
Government
City National Bank 1
Corporate
City of Safford 1
Government
Clark E. 1
Individuals
Cook Native American Ministries 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
Community-Led Design
1
Criteria-Based Overdraft Privilege
2
Digital-First Communication
1
Equitable Access via First-Come, First-Served
1
Flexible Dividend Structures
2
Global Education Access
3
1
Grant-Funded Infrastructure Development
Holistic Leader Sustainability
3
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.

National Credit Union Administration Government
shared by 3 orgs
Northern Arizona University Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Salvation Army Partner
shared by 3 orgs
A New Leaf Partner
shared by 2 orgs
American Cancer Society Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Cactus Shadows High School Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Child Crisis Arizona Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Mesa Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Foothills Food Bank Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Grand Canyon University Partner
shared by 2 orgs
House of Refuge Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Internal Revenue Service Government
shared by 2 orgs
Local First Arizona Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Phoenix Children's Hospital Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Phoenix Police Department Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Save the Family Partner
shared by 2 orgs
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.

50.2M
People served
from 21 orgs
4.5M
donations made
from 2 orgs
2.3M
grant amount
from 3 orgs
1.8M
funding amount
from 2 orgs
132K
Volunteers
from 3 orgs