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Creative and Recreational Enrichment

01 Creative and Recreational Enrichment · 370 edit slice
199
orgs
510
activities
37
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 199 organizations and 510 activities — TUCSON CHINESE ASSOCIATION, PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF, Phonetic Spit, Santa Cruz Training Programs and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (91%) and California (9%). The field's most common shared approach is "Client-Centered Preparation", run by 1 orgs.
TUCSON CHINESE ASSOCIATION and PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
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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 91% · 182 orgs
California 9% · 17 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 91% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 199

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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.

Arizona Commission on the Arts 5
Government
USDA 3
Government
AHCCCS 2
Government
Arizona Department of Child Safety 2
Government
Arizona Department of Economic Security 2
Government
Arizona Department of Housing 2
Government
Arizona Department of Revenue 2
Government
City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture 2
Government
Fry's Food Stores 2
Corporate
Medi-Cal 2
Government
Mercy Care 2
Government
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) 2
Government
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust 2
Foundation
2026 Art Contest sponsor (not named) 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
Client-Centered Preparation
1
Community Education & Family Empowerment
2
Community-Embedded Response
1
Community-Funded Support Model
1
Controlled Disruption Training
3
1
Controlled Media Engagement
3
Coordinated Access Scheduling
1
DMCA Compliance Framework
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.

Arizona State University Partner
shared by 16 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 8 orgs
Arizona Commission on the Arts Funder
shared by 6 orgs
Facebook Partner
shared by 6 orgs
Arizona Department of Revenue Government
shared by 5 orgs
Grand Canyon University Partner
shared by 5 orgs
ASU Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Amazon Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona Department of Education Government
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona Department of Health Services Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona Department of Health Services Government
shared by 4 orgs
City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 4 orgs
City of Phoenix Government
shared by 4 orgs
City of Tucson Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Mercy Care Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Northern Arizona University Partner
shared by 4 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.

28.0M
annual revenue
from 9 orgs
15.4M
People served
from 50 orgs
100K
Meals provided
from 2 orgs
4K
Staff
from 26 orgs
2K
Volunteers
from 11 orgs