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Community Festival & Event Organization

01 Community Festival & Event Organization · 188 edit slice
86
orgs
188
activities
28
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 86 organizations and 188 activities — IRISH CULTURAL AND LEARNING FOUNDAT, PHOENIX SISTER CITIES, VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, ALWUN HOUSE FOUNDATION and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (93%) and California (7%). The field's most common shared approach is "Amateur Sports for Participation", run by 1 orgs.
IRISH CULTURAL AND LEARNING FOUNDAT and PHOENIX SISTER CITIES 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 93% · 80 orgs
California 7% · 6 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 93% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 86

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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.

2026 Art Contest sponsor (not named) 1
Corporate
Amazon Smiles Program 1
Corporate
Angle Homes 1
Foundation
Arizona Arts Commission 1
Government
Arizona Commission on the Arts 1
Government
Arizona Governor’s Office of Youth, Faith & Family 1
Government
Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) 1
Government
Arizona Leveraging Educational Assistance Program (LEAP) 1
Government
Beck Legacy Group 1
Corporate
BetterHelp 1
Foundation
Butler Amusements 1
Corporate
California’s Mental Health Services Act (Prop 63) 1
Government
Center for Jewish Philanthropy 1
Foundation
City of Flagstaff 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
Amateur Sports for Participation
1
Breed Verification System
2
Code of Conduct Enforcement
1
Coordinated Access Scheduling
4
Cultural Celebration
1
Cultural Fundraising Alignment
4
Cultural Tradition as Community Glue
4
Culture Through Language
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 3 orgs
Phoenix Art Museum Partner
shared by 3 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona American Italian Club Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Diamondbacks Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Office of Tourism Government
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Opera Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Bureau of Land Management Government
shared by 2 orgs
City of Phoenix Government
shared by 2 orgs
City of Scottsdale Government
shared by 2 orgs
Downtown Phoenix Inc. Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Facebook Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Friends of the Library Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Gila County Partner
shared by 2 orgs
La Paz County Government
shared by 2 orgs
National Park Service 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.

17.0M
annual revenue
from 2 orgs
6.8M
People served
from 22 orgs
24K
Volunteers
from 10 orgs
9K
Partner organizations
from 29 orgs
810
Staff
from 8 orgs
312
scholarships awarded
from 2 orgs