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01 Economic Development & Tourism · 249 edit slice
70
orgs
247
activities
29
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 70 organizations and 247 activities — PHOENIX SISTER CITIES, GREATER PHOENIX ECONOMIC COUNCIL, PINAL PARTNERSHIP, FOUNTAIN HILLS SISTER CITIES and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (96%) and California (4%). The field's most common shared approach is "Antitrust Compliance Enforcement", run by 1 orgs.
PHOENIX SISTER CITIES and GREATER PHOENIX ECONOMIC COUNCIL 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 96% · 67 orgs
California 4% · 3 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 96% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 70

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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 3
Government
Salt River Project 2
Corporate
2025-2026 Sponsors 1
Corporate
Arizona Commerce Authority 1
Government
Arizona Department of Transportation 1
Government
Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) 1
Government
Arizona Office of Tourism 1
Government
Arizona Public Service (APS) 1
Corporate
Banner Health Plans 1
Government
Bombardier 1
Corporate
City of Scottsdale 1
Government
City of Tempe 1
Government
City of Tucson 1
Government
City of Yuma 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
Attendee-Centered Design
2
Aviation-Led Economic Growth
6
3
3
5
Binational Infrastructure Advocacy
3
2
1
Board-Driven Pricing Flexibility
4
Capacity-Building Support
1
Case-by-Case Incentive Evaluation
3
8
Code of Conduct Enforcement
2
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 10 orgs
Arizona Commerce Authority Partner
shared by 4 orgs
City of Tempe Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Salt River Project Partner
shared by 4 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 4 orgs
APS Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona Office of Tourism Government
shared by 3 orgs
Boeing Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Central Arizona College Partner
shared by 3 orgs
City of Casa Grande Partner
shared by 3 orgs
City of Eloy Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Freeport-McMoRan Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Grand Canyon University Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Maricopa County Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Pinal County Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Southwest Gas Partner
shared by 3 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
19.0M
annual revenue
from 4 orgs
7.4M
People served
from 14 orgs
81K
Partner organizations
from 30 orgs
4K
member count
from 3 orgs