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Artist Networking & Opportunity Platforms

01 Artist Networking & Opportunity Platforms · 16 edit slice
5
orgs
16
activities
2
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 5 organizations and 16 activities — ARTLINK, Adelante Story Foundation, DUNBAR COALITION, THE ARTS FOUNDATION FOR TUCSON and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Community-Led Systems Change", run by 2 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% · 5 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 5

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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.

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust 2
Foundation
AMY ZUCKERMAN-SOLOMON FUND 1
Foundation
AZ Commission on the Arts 1
Government
AZ Humanities 1
Government
CONNIE HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION 1
Foundation
City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture 1
Government
City of Tucson 1
Government
Flinn Foundation 1
Foundation
Helios Education Foundation 1
Foundation
Microsoft 1
Corporate
National Endowment for the Arts 1
Foundation
THE DAVID AND LAURA LOVELL FOUNDATION 1
Foundation
US Bank Foundation 1
Corporate
Western States Art Federation 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
Community-Led Systems Change
5
2
Holistic Youth Development
5
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.

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Funder
shared by 2 orgs
1 Focus Productions LLC Partner
shared by 1 org
7sound & co productions Partner
shared by 1 org
AMY ZUCKERMAN-SOLOMON FUND Funder
shared by 1 org
ASU Art Museum Partner
shared by 1 org
ASU Gammage Partner
shared by 1 org
AZ Commission on the Arts Government
shared by 1 org
AZ Humanities Government
shared by 1 org
Arizona Arts Commission Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Commission on the Arts Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Commission on the Arts Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona State University Media and Immersive Experience (MIX) Center Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona-Mexico Commission Partner
shared by 1 org
Artlink Artist Council (AAC) Partner
shared by 1 org
Barcoa Partner
shared by 1 org
CALA Alliance 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.

funder shortlist · top 5

Orgs that combine the highest activity counts with the broadest strategy reach — the default entry points for a funder diligencing this field.

  1. #01 ARTLINK INC AZ · 6 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 Adelante Story Foundation AZ · 5 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 DUNBAR COALITION INC AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0
  4. #04 THE ARTS FOUNDATION FOR TUCSON AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0
  5. #05 Xico Inc AZ · 1 · shares w/ 0
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.

21K
People served
from 2 orgs