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Economic Impact Research and Sector Development

01 Economic Impact Research and Sector Development · 41 edit slice
20
orgs
41
activities
9
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 20 organizations and 41 activities — PINAL ALLIANCE FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ARIZONA ALLIANCE FOR GOLF, PINAL PARTNERSHIP, ARIZONA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (95%) and California (5%). The field's most common shared approach is "Antitrust Compliance Enforcement", run by 1 orgs.
PINAL ALLIANCE FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH and ARIZONA ALLIANCE FOR GOLF 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 95% · 19 orgs
California 5% · 1 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 95% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 20

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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.

2025-2026 Sponsors 1
Corporate
Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) 1
Government
Banner Health Plans 1
Government
Coors Light 1
Corporate
Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) 219 1
Government
Global Water Resources 1
Corporate
Helios Education Foundation 1
Foundation
Medicare 1
Government
Union Pacific 1
Corporate
Various foundations 1
Foundation
WM 1
Corporate
Waste Management (WM) 1
Corporate
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) 1
Government
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
Antitrust Compliance Enforcement
3
Aviation-Led Economic Growth
1
Capacity-Building Support
1
Case-by-Case Incentive Evaluation
3
4
Code of Conduct Enforcement
2
Pilot Incentive Model
3
Resilient Supply Chain Strategy
3
Resource Pooling
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 3 orgs
Central Arizona College Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Grand Canyon University Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Southwest Gas Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona Commerce Authority Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Community Foundation Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) Government
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Water Company Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Boeing Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Casa Grande Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Eloy Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Freeport-McMoRan Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Global Water Resources Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Intel Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Lockheed Martin 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.

8.0B
economic impact
from 2 orgs
2.9M
People served
from 7 orgs
60K
Staff
from 3 orgs
3
Countries served
from 3 orgs