Our Grantees
| Arizona | A New Leaf | Support to provide safe emergency housing, basic needs and support services for 90 families a year in Mesa and Surprise. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Advance Community | Support to provide low-income families with six months of healthy food boxes. | $35,000 |
| Arizona | Advocacy31nine DBA Arizona 1.27 | Support to enhance the educational success of 400 students affected by foster care, kinship care and adoption. | $85,000 |
| Arizona | All Faith Community Services | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | Alliance for Companion Animals | Provide no-cost spay/neuter and wellness services to approximately 6,800 animals through veterinary clinics, including mobile veterinary units, across Maricopa County. | $600,000 |
| Arizona | Altered Tails | General operating support to provide accessible and affordable, high-quality spay and neuter surgeries to pet owners facing financial hardship. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | American Journalism Project | Support for a statewide research collaborative. These funds will be used to research and analyze the local information ecosystem in Arizona; conduct community listening with residents of the areas; propose potential solutions to fill information gaps; and steward efforts to galvanize philanthropic launch capital for proposed solutions. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Community Foundation | To support the Climate-Smart Economic Development Learning Lab, exploring the impacts of climate change on regional economic development and offering guidance on how to drive investment in climate solutions. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Community Foundation | Support for the Summer Youth Program Fund for organizations that provide academic enrichment, arts and recreational summer programs for children of low-income families. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Community Foundation | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Food Bank Network | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $45,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Food Bank Network | Support to deliver fresh, healthy produce from vendors in Nogales, Arizona, to residents in Maricopa County who need it most. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $20,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Housing Coalition | Support to build capacity to advocate for strong housing policies and practices to help address housing instability. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Opportunities Industrialization Center | Continued support to help children in grades K through 8th receive language arts and STEM-based mentoring during the school year. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Volunteer Optometry Services for Humanity – VOSH | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $3,000 |
| Arizona | Assistance League of East Valley Arizona | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $8,000 |
| Arizona | Assistance League of Phoenix Arizona | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $15,000 |
| Arizona | ASU Foundation for a New American University | Support for the Nina Scholars program. | $362,885 |
| Arizona | AZCEND | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | Back To School Clothing Drive | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $15,000 |
| Arizona | Banner Health Foundation | Support for Banner Olive Branch's meal program for food-insecure seniors to help enable them to remain in their homes. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Boost a Foster Family | Support for the grantee's general operations. | $20,000 |
| Arizona | Catholic Charities Community Services Inc. | Support to help Maricopa County clients transitioning to permanent affordable housing. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Control Alt Delete | Support for the grantee's general operations. | $10,000 |
| Arizona | DAS Foundation | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $10,000 |
| Arizona | Defenders of Children | Support to build capacity around financial management and grant writing so that more low-income families could receive free legal assistance. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Desert Botanical Garden | Capital support for construction of the Hazel Hare Center for Plant Science to advance desert plant research, conservation and preservation efforts. | $250,000 |
| Arizona | Duet Partners In Health & Aging | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | Dysart Community Center | General operating support to continue providing educational and developmental opportunities for children and adults in the West Valley. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Dysart Community Center | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $5,000 |
| Arizona | Elaine | Support to provide up to 9,000 no-cost rides for adults who are experiencing homelessness and/or are elderly or disabled. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Elevate Phoenix | Support to provide mentoring to high school students to support high school graduation, post-secondary education and workplace readiness. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Eyes On Learning | Support to enhance and expand vision screenings for school-aged children in Arizona. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Family Promise of Greater Phoenix | Support for families at Family Promise Village, an affordable housing project in Glendale. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Foothills Caring Corps | Support to provide 3,000 meals to homebound seniors choosing to age in place. | $35,000 |
| Arizona | Foothills Food Bank | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | Foster Arizona | Support to serve up to 100 unhoused youth who have experienced the foster care system with housing and supportive services. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Foster Your Future | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $13,000 |
| Arizona | Foundation For Senior Living (FSL) | Support for a program to effectively serve older adults by assessing immediate needs, removing barriers and creating a follow-up plan to ensure a high quality of life. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Friends of Public Radio Arizona | Provide support for on-air programming on the Phoenix public radio station. | $40,470 |
| Arizona | Friends of the Verde River | Support to provide oversight for construction of a stormwater control system at the site of a workforce housing development that will recharge groundwater by an estimated 360,000 gallons annually. | $110,000 |
| Arizona | Friends of the Verde River | Support to provide oversight for construction of a stormwater control system at the site of a workforce housing development that will recharge groundwater by an estimated 360,000 gallons annually. | $110,000 |
| Arizona | Friends of the Verde River | Support to work with business owners to design customized systems that would recharge and reuse effluent resulting in nearly 20 million gallons of treated wastewater annually. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Friends of the Verde River | Support to restore high priority upland sites, monitor restoration activities and oversee revisions to the Verde Watershed Restoration Coalition strategic plan. | $300,000 |
| Arizona | Genesis Eve House | Support for the grantee's general operations. | $14,000 |
| Arizona | Guadalupe Community Action Program | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $10,000 |
| Arizona | Homeless Youth Connection | Support to provide wraparound services to high school youth experiencing homelessness. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Hope’s Crossing | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $17,000 |
| Arizona | House of Refuge | Support to help homeless families achieve career and education goals. | $90,000 |
| Arizona | Instituto Lab | Support to build capacity for 25 organizations in Maricopa County that assist with housing and education issues in under-resourced communities and communities of color. | $80,000 |
| Arizona | Jobs for Arizona’s Graduates | Support to help Native American and other youth aged 16-24 years old living in Guadalupe and Tempe with career and college readiness opportunities. | $165,000 |
| Arizona | Justa Center | Support to identify and eliminate barriers to permanent housing for older adults experiencing homelessness. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Local First Arizona Foundation | Support to help businesses and nonprofits in the Verde Valley reduce water, energy, waste and transportation impacts. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Make Way for Books | Support to reach 575 young children and their families with a bilingual, two-generation early literacy program. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation | Support for the Nina Scholars program. | $226,457 |
| Arizona | Maricopa County Animal Care and Control | Support to create a foster program focused on large breed dogs. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Melabiz Community Hub (via fiscal sponsor: Technical Assistance Partnership AZ) | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $10,000 |
| Arizona | Midwestern University | Support to provide vulnerable and underserved individuals with high quality vision care and eyeglasses at no cost. | $160,000 |
| Arizona | Mitchell Swaback Charities, Inc. DBA Harvest Compassion Center | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $6,000 |
| Arizona | Mother’s Grace | Support to provide financial assistance and emotional support to mothers experiencing emergency situations. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Native Health | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $10,000 |
| Arizona | Nina Scholars Program at Arizona State University | Support for the Nina Scholars program. | $725,769 |
| Arizona | Nina Scholars Program at Maricopa County Community Colleges District – Tempe, AZ | Support for the Nina Scholars program. | $452,914 |
| Arizona | Northern Arizona University Foundation | Provide support for on-air programming on the Phoenix public radio station. | $9,880 |
| Arizona | Nourish PHX | General operating support to continue providing food and clothing to individuals who are food insecure or experiencing homelessness. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Nourish PHX | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $10,000 |
| Arizona | OCJ Kids | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | Our Sisters Our Brothers | Support for the grantee's general operations. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | PACC911 – Phoenix Animal Care Coalition 911 | Support to provide medical treatment for abused, neglected and injured animals. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Phoenix Herpetological Society | Support to house critically endangered species of crocodilians. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Phoenix Public Library Foundation – College Depot Program at the Burton Barr Central Library | Support to provide essential college access, GED services and expanded higher education opportunities for underserved populations in Phoenix. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Phoenix Zoo | Capital support to build a medical center that will provide innovative care to the zoo's animals and serve as a hub for research and education. | $1,500,000 |
| Arizona | Pilgrim Rest Foundation | Support for emergency assistance to individuals and families facing displacement. | $500,000 |
| Arizona | Pilgrim Rest Foundation | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $6,500 |
| Arizona | Regional Community Partners (on behalf Maricopa Association of Governments) | Support to build capacity of local governments and tribal nations to develop and preserve affordable housing. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Save the Family Foundation of Arizona | Support for housing and supportive services for up to 18 families on the verge of experiencing homelessness. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Seed Spot | Support to increase small business creation rates and access to early-stage capital among women and minorities in the Valley. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Society of Environmental Journalists | Publicize, implement and manage the 2024, 2025 and 2026 Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting. | $64,800 |
| Arizona | Society of St. Vincent de Paul – Phoenix | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Society of St. Vincent de Paul – Phoenix | Capital support to create a 71-bed transitional housing community that would reduce the number of unhoused individuals while providing safe housing and wraparound services. | $1,000,000 |
| Arizona | Sojourner Center | General operating support to continue offering essential services to survivors of domestic violence. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Southwest Human Development | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $17,500 |
| Arizona | Stepping Up for Seniors | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $10,000 |
| Arizona | Tanner Community Development Corporation | Support to address transportation, cost-of-living factors, affordable housing and quality of life services to independent-living seniors. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Tempe Community Action Agency | Support to help unsheltered adults return to permanent housing and to assist families who are on the verge of experiencing homelessness. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support for water-saving agricultural projects critical to sustaining Verde River flow. | $400,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to develop and implement a Verde River Watershed flow-monitoring plan to establish protocol for watershed condition improvement projects and assess agricultural and rural community sustaining flows projects. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to restore grassland habitat and protect wildlife corridors in the Upper Verde River watershed. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | The Salvation Army Phoenix | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $65,000 |
| Arizona | The Salvation Army Phoenix | Support to provide flexible funds to help families experiencing homelessness transition into permanent housing. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Trust For Public Land | Support to permanently protect and conserve the first 22 miles of the Upper Verde River for the benefit of the public. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | UMOM New Day Centers | Capital and programmatic support to renovate 16 emergency shelter units for large families at risk of experiencing homelessness and to provide essential services to such families. | $2,000,000 |
| Arizona | Valley Leadership Corporation | Support to educate and build awareness for the development of more affordable housing throughout the Valley. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Valleywise Health Foundation | Support to launch the Raising a Reader program in Valleywise Health’s eight Family Resource Centers across Maricopa County. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Voices for CASA Children | Support to recruit additional court-appointed special advocates to serve children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse and neglect. | $40,000 |
| Arizona | White Tank Mountains Conservancy | Support to implement the Wildlife Linkage Concept plan to advance the protection of wildlife corridors in the far West Valley. | $60,000 |
| Arizona | Wildfire Arizona formerly Arizona Community Action Association | Support to create a community-based framework for eviction diversion programs in Maricopa County. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Zuri’s Circle | Support for the grantee's general operations. | $18,000 |
| Arizona | Advance Community | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | All Faith Community Services | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | Alliance for Companion Animals | Support for trap-neuter-return services in Maricopa County. | $65,000 |
| Arizona | Animal Defense League of Arizona | Support to spay and neuter nearly 1,500 cats. | $60,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Association for Foster and Adoptive Parents | Support to provide training, mentoring, counseling and family activities for foster, kinship and adoptive families whose children have been part of the state welfare system. | $80,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired | Support to hire a case manager who can provide wraparound services for adults who are visually impaired. | $110,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Community Foundation | Support for the Summer Youth Program Fund for organizations that provide academic enrichment, arts and recreational summer programs for children of low-income families. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Community Foundation | Continued support for the Arizona Together for Impact initiative to help nonprofits form affiliations, integrate programs and consider strategic collaborations to further nonprofit sustainability and strengthen services. | $120,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Community Foundation | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Food Bank Network | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $45,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation | Continued support for the Keys to Success program, providing career development, education services and housing navigation for youth transitioning out of the foster care system. | $180,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $20,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Humane Society | Support for spay and neuter surgeries at the Sunnyslope campus, trap-neuter-return and other medical services at the Pulliam South Mountain campus, and a fall 2023 vaccine blitz. | $65,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Legal Women and Youth Services | Support for the family law services program including (i) the salaries and benefits of program staff; (ii) consultant costs, (iii) supplies, printing, and equipment costs; and (iv) indirect costs. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Science Center | Support to allow approximately 2,800 students from Title 1 schools to attend an immersive exhibit that explores the bond between humans and dogs. | $20,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona State University Foundation for New American University | Support for the Nina Mason Pulliam Legacy Scholars program. | $735,179 |
| Arizona | Arizona’s Children Association | Support to provide services to kinship families including caregiver education and support, guardianship clinics, legal services and emergency support services. | $250,000 |
| Arizona | Assistance League of East Valley Arizona | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $8,000 |
| Arizona | Assistance League of Phoenix Arizona | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $20,000 |
| Arizona | AZCEND | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | Back To School Clothing Drive | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $15,000 |
| Arizona | Banner Health Foundation | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | Boost a Foster Family | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $3,000 |
| Arizona | Boyce Thompson Arboretum | Capital support to improve water conservation efforts and to restore areas of the Queen Creek riparian corridor within the arboretum. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale | Support to match educationally at-risk youth with student mentors from Arizona State University to help youth improve in academics and grow their confidence. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Chicanos Por La Causa | General operating support for the De Colores Shelter, providing resources for survivors of domestic/sexual violence and those experiencing homelessness. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence | Provide general operating funding to safely house and support individuals and families surviving domestic violence. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Diana Gregory Outreach Services | Support to hire a program administrative assistant to expand programs to alleviate food insecurity among seniors. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Duet Partners In Health & Aging | Support to expand bilingual services for kinship families and grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | FIBCO Family Services | Capital support to upgrade five properties to safely house people who would otherwise be homeless. | $125,000 |
| Arizona | Foothills Food Bank | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | Foundation for Blind Children | Support to hire a research administrator who would create and publish peer-reviewed research to encourage broader adoption of programs that lead to independence and gainful employment for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. | $225,000 |
| Arizona | Fresh Start Women’s Foundation | Support to expand wraparound services for underserved women participating in workforce education and training programs. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Friendly House | Support over two years for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Friends of Public Radio Arizona | Provide support for on-air programming on the Phoenix public radio station. | $40,470 |
| Arizona | Friends of the Verde River | Support to examine the feasibility of a Verde River Center that would offer learning opportunities and promote nature-based recreation and collaboration. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | Friends of the Verde River | Support to implement the first phase of the Verde River Watershed Water Quality Monitoring Plan to provide a greater understanding of water conditions and highlight areas for improving the system. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Future for KIDS | Funding to hire a volunteer recruiter and trainer to expand out-of-school programming for youth from disadvantaged neighborhoods. | $45,000 |
| Arizona | Gannett Company Inc. – Arizona Republic | Continued support to provide in-depth reporting that focuses on Arizona's most pressing environmental issues. With Trust support, The Republic can continue to set the agenda when it comes to drought, the Colorado River and managing the state’s natural resources. As a bonus, it also means growth of the cohort of Nina Mason Pulliam Trust Environment Fellows whose environmental expertise deepens as they absorb the lessons learned in The Republic newsroom. | $675,000 |
| Arizona | Gene Lewis Boxing Club | Support to expand tutoring seSupport to expand tutoring services for youth at sites in Chandler and South Phoenix. rvices for youth at sites in Chandler and South Phoenix. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Grand Canyon Conservancy | Support for a study to advance the understanding of flow paths, flow rates and water budgets of the aquifer system below the Kaibab Plateau on the north side of Grand Canyon National Park. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Guadalupe Community Action Program | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | HALO Animal Rescue | Support to construct an in-house surgery suite. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Homeward Bound | Support to provide services to families facing homelessness and families transitioning into permanent housing. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Human Services Campus | Support for the homeless prevention fund and for the grantee's general operations to help people at risk of housing instability remain housed. | $2,250,000 |
| Arizona | ICM Food and Clothing Bank – Nourish PHX | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $10,000 |
| Arizona | Liberty Wildlife | Support for assistance with heat-related issues for grantee’s animals, including the purchase of a new compressor, evaporative coolers and increased food and medical treatment. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation | Support for the Nina Mason Pulliam Legacy Scholars program. | $310,340 |
| Arizona | Maricopa Trail and Park Foundation | Support to identify and construct spur trails to connect the Maricopa Trail to the Sun Corridor Trail. pport to identify and construct spur trails to connect the Maricopa Trail to the Sun Corridor Trail. | $70,000 |
| Arizona | Mitchell Swaback Charities, Inc. DBA Harvest Compassion Center | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $6,000 |
| Arizona | Native American Connections | Support to expand services for youth experiencing homelessness at HomeBase Surprise. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Native Health | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to improve water quality in Granite Creek by reducing erosion and slowing stormwater runoff. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to monitor the water rights adjudication proceedings in Arizona. | $137,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Continued support to foster groundwater management through collaboration and specific projects to reduce demand, mitigate threats and support communities in securing their water needs. | $300,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to create a communication plan for the Upper Verde Watershed to help generate support for the Verde River's protection. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to restore the invasive plant-dominated pasture of the Upper Verde River wildlife area with native grasses to better support wildlife, reduce water demand and increase resiliency. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to conduct an analysis of impact to habitat because of proposed changes to the Verde River reservoir management system. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | New Life Center | Capital support to convert administrative office space into single-occupant residential units to safely house survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking and sexual violence. | $250,000 |
| Arizona | New Pathways for Youth | Support to expand capacity to train staff and volunteers to facilitate programs serving at-risk youth. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Northern Arizona University Foundation | Provide support for on-air programming on the Phoenix public radio station. | $9,876 |
| Arizona | OCJ Kids | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $7,000 |
| Arizona | Planned Parenthood Arizona | Support for a mobile health center to provide family practice, sexual and reproductive health care and education services to underserved populations. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Rehoboth Community Development Corporation | Support to deliver out-of-school time activities to 150 youth living in two affordable housing units. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Saving Amy | Support to hire a program and volunteer coordinator who can expand services for families who are transitioning out of homeless shelters or domestic violence shelters. | $110,000 |
| Arizona | Seed Spot | Continued support for a program serving low-income and minority entrepreneurs. | $60,000 |
| Arizona | Sierra Club Foundation | Support to train volunteer citizen scientists to monitor water quality in the Verde River and to seek designation for the river as an Outstanding Arizona Waters through the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. | $28,000 |
| Arizona | Society of St. Vincent de Paul – Phoenix | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Southwest Human Development | Support to expand the Raising A Reader and Reach Out and Read programs to empower family education and early literacy. | $60,000 |
| Arizona | St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $17,500 |
| Arizona | Sun Cities 4 Paws Rescue | Support to spay and neuter rescued, surrendered and abandoned cats. | $60,000 |
| Arizona | Technical Assistance Partnership of Arizona | Support for the Housing Stability Legal Advocate initiative to benefit low-income families facing housing instability. | $45,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to improve watershed health by identifying conservation opportunities in the Big Chino Watershed. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to conduct an analysis of impact to habitat because of proposed changes to the Verde River reservoir management system. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to restore the invasive plant-dominated pasture of the Upper Verde River wildlife area with native grasses to better support wildlife, reduce water demand and increase resiliency. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to create a communication plan for the Upper Verde Watershed to help generate support for the Verde River's protection. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Continued support to foster groundwater management through collaboration and specific projects to reduce demand, mitigate threats and support communities in securing their water needs. | $300,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to monitor the water rights adjudication proceedings in Arizona. | $137,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to improve water quality in Granite Creek by reducing erosion and slowing stormwater runoff. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Funding to develop a comprehensive summary of the historic and current presence of native fish, analyzing threats and making recommendations for improvements. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | The Salvation Army Phoenix | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $65,000 |
| Arizona | Trust For Public Land | Support to develop a master plan to preserve 1,000 acres within the headwaters of the Verde River. | $125,000 |
| Arizona | Valley of the Sun United Way | Formation of a funding collaborative focused specifically on addressing homelessness in Phoenix, and targeting the area known as “The Zone.” The goal of this collaborative is to leverage our collective power and financial resources to make a tangible difference in the lives of those experiencing homelessness. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix | Support for a program that offers women and girls tools that foster financial sustainability, planning for college, career advancement and asset acquisition. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Zuri’s Circle | Support for the grantee's general operating expenses. | $2,500 |
| Arizona | A New Leaf | Provide housing support services for 360 vulnerable households who are at risk of homelessness or other unsafe living conditions. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | A Stepping Stone Foundation | Continued support for a two-generation, tuition-free program that provides early literacy intervention, preschool, weekly adult education and parenting classes. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | About Care | Support to hire a volunteer manager to oversee and recruit volunteers to allow elderly, low-income individuals to remain in their homes. | $80,000 |
| Arizona | Alliance for Companion Animals | Provide no-cost spay/neuter and wellness services to approximately 6,000 animals through veterinary clinics, including mobile veterinary units, across Maricopa County. | $1,100,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Community Foundation – Summer Youth Program Fund | Support for the Summer Youth Program Fund for organizations that provide academic enrichment, arts and recreational summer programs for children of low-income families. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Food Bank Network | Support to deliver fresh, healthy produce from vendors in Nogales, Arizona, to residents in Maricopa County who need it most. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Housing Inc. | Support to addresses the nutritional needs of extremely low-income older adults who experience food insecurity while also managing chronic and complex medical conditions. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Continued support for the Bridging Success program to help former foster care youth and youth who experienced homelessness successfully transition to college. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Aster Aging | Expand resource navigation services for East Valley seniors to access food, housing and eligible benefits helping them remain independent in their homes. | $195,000 |
| Arizona | Central Arizona Shelter Services | Support to implement an electronics health record system to improve outcomes for clients experiencing homelessness. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Child Crisis Arizona | General operating support to provide children and youth in Arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Earn to Learn | Support for a college access program that places current college students and recent college graduates in high schools to serve as college advisors to underrepresented students. | $190,000 |
| Arizona | Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona | Support to offer trauma-informed training for foster parents and provide artistic tools to help the parent and child bond. | $125,000 |
| Arizona | Friends of the Children – Phoenix | General operating support to impact generational change through relationships with professional mentors that empower youth who are facing the greatest obstacles. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Friends of the Verde River | Support to update the Verde Watershed Report Card, an assessment tool designed to track trends in the health of the Verde River watershed and surrounding communities. | $275,000 |
| Arizona | Friends of the Verde River | Launch the Verde Forever campaign to raise awareness of the Verde River, motivate greater river stewardship and increase support by people and institutions. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Generation Justice | Continued support for the Children's Rights Education and Training Series to train foster parents, kinship families, advocates and court personnel about the legal rights of children in the foster care system. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation | Support to bring targeted career and college readiness programs to underserved populations. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Greater Phoenix Leadership | Support for start-up costs for Rio Reimagined, which will foster river restoration and urban redevelopment along the Rio Salado. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Heard Museum | Support to redesign and rebuild a website and to make it more accessible. | $125,000 |
| Arizona | Hospice of the Valley | Support to expand the Supportive Care for Dementia program to provide education and clinical support to caregivers and to help people affected by dementia remain home and maintain their independence. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Human Services Campus | Support to expand street outreach and navigation services to reduce the length of time people experience homelessness. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Local First Arizona | Offer a sustainability program to Verde Valley independent businesses and nonprofits, enabling them to experience cost savings associated with reducing water and energy use, and minimizing waste and transportation emissions. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Lost Our Home Pet Foundation | General operating support for animal respite services to pet owners in crisis. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Make Way for Books | Support for a bilingual, two-generation early literacy program that fosters skills of young children and empowers parents. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Maricopa Community Colleges Bridging Success | Continued support for the Bridging Success program to help former foster care youth and youth who experienced homelessness successfully transition to college. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Meals of Joy | Support to provide no-cost, hot meals to older adults, people with disabilities or those who are homebound in the West Valley. | $20,000 |
| Arizona | Midwestern University | Support to provide free veterinary care and surgical services through weekly onsite, mobile and pop-up clinics. | $80,000 |
| Arizona | Midwestern University | Continued support to provide no-cost, quality vision care to families experiencing homelessness and historically underserved populations. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to pipe a portion of the Eureka Ditch above and through the Yavapai-Apache Nation reservation and to implement an irrigation diversion dam redesign. | $400,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to develop and implement stormwater projects to improve water retention and groundwater recharge. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support for the Yavapai-Apache Nation’s efforts to build a critically needed wastewater treatment plant near Camp Verde. | $400,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Identify and implement agricultural projects that protect water flow in the Verde River watershed. | $400,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Continue stakeholder engagement of groups from the Upper Verde and Verde Valley for connectivity and cohesion in planning, community support and reaching conservation and related goals. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Develop an Upper Verde stormwater management plan that will identify a pipeline of projects to improve recharge of local water levels and water quality in the watershed. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Northwest Valley Connect | Expand volunteer transportation services to older adults, individuals with disabilities and veterans so that they can access health and community supports. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | PACC 911 – Phoenix Animal Care Coalition 911 | Support to provide medical treatment for abused, neglected and injured animals. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Per Scholas – Phoenix | Support for the Women in Tech Initiative to provide tuition-free training, certifications and connect women of color to careers in technology. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Rebuilding Together – Valley of the Sun | Support to provide home modifications and safety improvements for 50 homes owned by economically disadvantaged older adults. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Rosie’s House: A Music Academy for Children | Support to serve 150 additional students with quality after-school and college readiness programs. | $165,000 |
| Arizona | Save the Family Foundation of Arizona | Support for a transitional housing program that provides working poor, homeless families with up to 24 months of housing and case management and supportive services. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Sojourner Center | General operating support to help survivors overcome the impact of domestic violence. | $125,000 |
| Arizona | Springs Stewardship Institute | Support for a project to document and increase awareness of the headwater springs of the Verde River's tributaries. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Tempe Community Action Agency | Provide general operating support to help individuals and families experiencing financial hardship and housing insecurity meet basic needs. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | The Zion Institute | Support to expand a foster care prevention and placement program for children and families in south Phoenix. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Valley Leadership Corporation | Expand the Impact Maker program to allow Valley Leadership alumni to take meaningful action in solving community challenges. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Valley of the Sun YMCA | Expand YMCA's Outreach Program for All Seniors to two additional YMCA locations to help seniors remain safely at home. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Valleywise Health Foundation | Support to expand a program that includes family early literacy courses, kindergarten readiness, STEM activities and reading support for caregivers. | $125,000 |
| Arizona | White Tank Mountains Conservancy | Support informed decision-making that aligns with regional open space planning goals, including sustainable growth around a designated system of linked natural desert and wildlife corridors. | $120,000 |
| Arizona | Alliance for Companion Animals | Support for legal counsel related to routine tax compliance issues. | $6,000 |
| Arizona | Altered Tails | Capital support to build the West Valley Clinic, a community-centric primary wellness pet care center that will provide preventive veterinary care. | $250,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Center for Youth Resources | Continue the Pathways to Success program, serving opportunity youth and young adults ages 14-24 with social-emotional support, college and career readiness and support programming. | $110,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Helping Hands | Support for a license and safety program to enable prospective foster families to become licensed. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Humane Society | Provide general operating support to assist owners of companion animals and help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Humane Society | Capital support to expand grantee's system of care with a new medical and adoption facility, the Central Campus & Animal Medical Center. | $3,000,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Opportunities Industrialization Center | Support to help 100 children in grades three through nine receive weekly language arts and STEM-based education and mentoring during the school year. | $120,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Support for ASU's Bridging Success program to assist students who were formerly in foster care. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona’s Children Association | Provide general operating support to serve foster children and their families and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Association for Supportive Child Care | Support to expand the Arizona Kith and Kin program to assist family, friends and neighbors who care for children in their homes. | $140,000 |
| Arizona | Back To School Clothing Drive | Expand the Student Attire For Education (SAFE) school uniform wholesale sales program through a new online component of SAFE that is open to the general public for individual retail sales. | $55,000 |
| Arizona | Banner Health Foundation | Support for the Olive Branch Senior Center to provide programs to address isolation, food insecurity, nutrition and mobility for vulnerable seniors in the West Valley. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona | Support to hire a parent engagement manager responsible for creating and teaching family curriculum and connecting families to community resources. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley | Support to hire a new career case manager to help youth set career goals and create a career pathway. | $60,000 |
| Arizona | Chicanos Por La Causa | Support for the De Colores domestic violence program, assisting families with emergency shelter, legal advocacy, case management and other related services. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | College Depot Program at the Burton Barr Central Library | Support to provide in-depth college planning services targeting low-income and working-class youth and adults and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | Common Sense Media | Expand digital literacy programs and safe technology and media usage to children and families in Maricopa County. | $130,000 |
| Arizona | Creciendo Unidos Growing Together | Support to help first- and second-generation low-income Hispanic families thrive and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Desert Botanical Garden | Support for the Central Arizona Conservation Alliance to implement a Regional Open Space Strategy to support healthy ecosystems and provide safe open spaces within Maricopa County communities. | $125,000 |
| Arizona | Desert Mission | Provide general operating support to help vulnerable families receive food access and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Family Promise of Greater Phoenix | Support for an eviction prevention program to help families at risk of eviction or homelessness. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Foundation For Senior Living | Provide general operating support for home and community-based services to low-income seniors and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Friendly House | Provide general operating support for educational and social service programs for low-income and vulnerable populations and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Friends of Public Radio Arizona | Provide support for on-air programming on the Phoenix public radio station. | $39,386 |
| Arizona | Girl Scouts – Arizona Cactus-Pine Council | Expand access to outdoor experiences for girls, and welcome new girls by addressing barriers to participation, especially in areas where resources are limited. | $125,000 |
| Arizona | Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona | Expand the Aging in Place program, making safety and functional home modifications and repairs to help seniors with low incomes remain in their homes. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Homeless Youth Connection | Provide general operating support to serve high school youth experiencing homelessness and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Homeward Bound | Support for technology infrastructure and staff resources to streamline homelessness prevention strategies and expand services. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | House of Refuge | Continue programming to help individuals experiencing homelessness set career and education goals, assist with the job search and application process and secure education services for residents' children. | $80,000 |
| Arizona | Justa Center | Support to design and implement a volunteer-based program to return life skills to seniors who are transitioning from experiencing homelessness to housing. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Live & Learn | Support to expand services to provide women impacted by poverty a pathway to economic independence. | $85,000 |
| Arizona | Maggie’s Place | Support to help pregnant and parenting moms and families overcome barriers to resiliency and to connect them with service partners during their transition to self-sufficiency. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Maricopa Community Colleges Bridging Success | Support for the Bridging Success program to assist students who were formerly in foster care. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to protect water security for people and nature by engaging in the general stream adjudication process for the Verde River basin. | $137,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to implement a best-management certification program for residents, businesses, farmers, developments and communities to keep the Verde River healthy and flowing. | $210,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support for the Verde Watershed Restoration Coalition to carry out its strategic plan and implement sediment reduction in the Verde River basin. | $294,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support water data collection and analysis to better understand, communicate, plan for and analyze the health of the Verde River watershed. | $92,500 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to reduce groundwater demand through agriculture infrastructure improvements and other projects. | $420,000 |
| Arizona | Phoenix Herpetological Society | Provide general operating support for the conservation and preservation of native and non-native reptiles and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Planned Parenthood Arizona | Support to provide one year of contraceptives for those 19 and younger at Maricopa County health centers. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Read Better Be Better | Support for six local nonprofit organizations to provide in-depth literacy support to 2,400 families. | $180,000 |
| Arizona | Southern Arizona Association for the Visually Impaired (SAAVI) | Support to serve 150 children who are blind, and their families, by remediating gaps of learning equality for students with visual impairment or blindness. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance | Support to deliver food and water to residents in the Navajo Nation suffering from impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Stand For Children Leadership Center – Arizona | Support for 200 families to participate in a literacy program that develops family engagement and empowers parents with the skills and knowledge they need to support their children learning to read. | $70,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to develop a shared vision for management and restoration of West Clear Creek. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Prevent domestic water loss by assisting private water utilities throughout the Verde watershed with leak-reduction detection. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Expand infrastructure improvements across the Verde River watershed, resulting in reduced diverted surface water and improved irrigation. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | The Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support for project development and due diligence in preparation for acquisition of conservation easements in the Verde River watershed. | $152,000 |
| Arizona | UMOM New Day Centers | Provide general operating support to serve families experiencing homelessness and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Waste Not | Support to purchase a refrigerated box truck to efficiently rescue larger quantities of food for families experiencing food insecurity. | $105,000 |
| Arizona | Wesley Community Center | Provide general operating support for community programs for low-income residents and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | A New Leaf | Expand workforce development services to help individuals overcome barriers to employment, secure jobs that offer a living wage and benefits, and build long-term financial stability. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | A Stepping Stone Foundation | Provide general operating support to continue educational programming for at-risk young children and their families and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | AASK Arizona – Aid to Adoption of Special Kids | Provide general operating support to serve foster children and their families and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $55,000 |
| Arizona | About Care | Provide general operating support to help older adults and other homebound residents in the Southeast Valley receive essential services and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | Alliance for Companion Animals | Provide general operating support to assist ending pet homelessness and pet euthanasia in Maricopa County through spay/neuter services and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $80,000 |
| Arizona | Alliance for Companion Animals | Support for 36 mobile clinics in Central Phoenix and West Valley locations to provide spay/neuter surgeries, vaccinations and wellness services for dogs and cats. | $135,000 |
| Arizona | Alliance for Companion Animals | Provide general operating support for spay/neuter services to assist ending pet homelessness in Maricopa County and euthanasia of companion animals, and offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $40,000 |
| Arizona | Altered Tails | Provide general operating support for accessible and affordable spay/neuter solutions for companion animals and free-roaming cats, and offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $35,000 |
| Arizona | Altered Tails | Provide spay/neuter and limited wellness services for owned cats and dogs, as well as cats and dogs from rescue organizations and feral cats. | $55,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Community Foundation | Support for the Arizona Together for Impact initiative, helping nonprofits form affiliations, integrate programs or consider other strategic collaborations to further nonprofit sustainability and strengthen the provision of services. | $120,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Food Bank Network | Expand capacity to distribute groceries to food banks and pantries to help reduce food insecurity. | $105,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation | Provide general operating support to serve foster children and their families and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Newspapers Foundation | Publicize, implement and manage the 2021, 2022 and 2023 Nina Mason Pulliam Environmental Journalism Awards. | $15,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Sonora Desert Museum | Provide general operating support to care for native plants and animals and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona’s Children Association | Provide general operating support to serve foster children and their families and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $30,000 |
| Arizona | Be A Leader Foundation | Expand the postsecondary success program to support nearly 1,200 students a year through their higher education journey. | $280,000 |
| Arizona | Benevilla | Provide general operating support to help older adults in the West Valley receive essential services and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona | Provide general operating support to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth, and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Central Arizona Shelter Services | Provide general operating support to serve individuals and families experiencing homelessness and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Child Crisis Arizona | Provide general operating support to help vulnerable children and families receive shelter, foster care, adoption and support services and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Children’s Action Alliance | Provide services to grandparents and other non-parent caregivers of children, including assisting caregivers with meeting their children's educational needs during the pandemic. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence | Provide general operating support to serve women and children surviving domestic violence and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | College Depot Program at the Burton Barr Central Library | Support for the ReEngage Phoenix and Career Online High School to allow individuals who did not graduate high school with the opportunity to earn their high school diploma or equivalent and continue on to postsecondary education. | $250,000 |
| Arizona | Desert Botanical Garden | Support for the Central Arizona Conservation Alliance to continue implementing the Regional Open Space Strategy for Maricopa County, which will shape a sustainable preserve system that supports healthy ecosystems and provides safe open spaces for communities within Central Arizona. | $175,000 |
| Arizona | Desert Botanical Garden | Provide general operating support to aid in the conservation of desert plants and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Desert Mission | Provide general operating support to help vulnerable families receive food access and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | Dress for Success Phoenix | Provide general operating support to help women thrive in work and in life and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Fresh Start Women’s Foundation | Provide general operating support to help women positively transform their lives and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Friends of Public Radio Arizona | Provide support for on-air programming on the Phoenix public radio station. | $33,000 |
| Arizona | Future for KIDS | Provide general operating support to serve at-risk youth ages 7 to 14 from low-income families and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | Generation Justice | Expand services for foster children by training and educating caretakers and child advocates about the legal rights of children in foster care, and provide resources about the dependency process and how to advocate for the rights of foster children. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Girl Scouts – Arizona Cactus Pine Council | Provide general operating support to build girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place, and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Heard Museum | Provide general operating support to advance American Indian art and culture to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $250,000 |
| Arizona | House of Refuge | Provide general operating support to help families experiencing homelessness receive transitional housing and wrap-around services and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Human Services Campus | Provide general operating support to help individuals experiencing homelessness receive supportive services and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Justa Center | Provide general operating support to assist homeless seniors and offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Justa Center | Provide general operating support to serve older adults experiencing homelessness and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | Lost Our Home Pet Foundation | Provide general operating support for animal respite services to pet owners in crisis, and offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $15,000 |
| Arizona | Maggie’s Place | Provide general operating support to serve homeless pregnant women and mothers and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | Midwestern University | Support for full-service vision medical exams and assistive devices to improve the eye care of homeless families and other underserved populations. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Native American Connections | Support for the HomeBase and Saguaro Ki programs, providing emergency shelter, transitional housing and other supportive services to homeless youth ages 18 to 24. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy | Conduct a demonstration project with the City of Cottonwood to highlight how municipalities can reduce groundwater demand on the Verde River and utilize effluent and stormwater as sources for irrigation. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy | Reduce the amount of water diverted from the Verde River by improving the function of key ditches and increasing the efficiency in conveying water to farms. | $300,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Pilot a water rights trading platform covering approximately 300 acres in the Verde Valley in order to contribute to water rights certainty and save water for the Verde River. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support for surface water projects, including irrigation efficiency improvements, conveyance efficiency upgrades, diversion efficiency improvements and water-use agreements. | $180,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Continue implementing projects with developers and municipalities that reduce water use and demonstrate effective effluent and stormwater management. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Continue the Verde River Exchange, a water market-based program that allows participants to voluntarily reduce consumption and save water for the Verde River. | $250,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Pilot the first irrigation dam redesign in the Verde Valley that would allow fish passage and reduce sediment runoff into the Verde River. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Continue support for the Sustaining Flows Council, providing a forum for Verde Valley community leaders and water users to discuss and plan for long-term water security. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support design services for sediment reduction projects in the Prescott National Forest to develop implementation plans to recover the natural grasslands and stop head cutting and gully erosion caused by historic overgrazing and road and trail crossings. | $85,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Continue the next phase of the Verde River Watershed Report Card project by disseminating and communicating the baseline report card; continuing to collect data and monitor conditions; and producing, disseminating and communicating the second report card. | $70,000 |
| Arizona | New Life Center | Provide general operating support to serve survivors of domestic violence and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | Northwest Valley Connect | Provide general operating support to help older adults and veterans receive transportation services and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | PACC911 – Phoenix Animal Care Coalition 911 | Provide general operating support to allow a network of animal rescue organizations save and rehome displaced pets in need and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $60,000 |
| Arizona | Phoenix Herpetological Society | Provide general operating support to asssit with the conservation and preservation of native and non-native reptiles through education, rehabilitation and relocation, and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $40,000 |
| Arizona | Phoenix Zoo | Provide general operating support to aid in the conservation of animals and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Society of St. Vincent de Paul – Phoenix | Provide general operating support to serve the basic needs of the working poor, those at risk of or experiencing homelessness, and families in need and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Sojourner Center | Provide general operating support to serve survivors of domestic violence and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $25,000 |
| Arizona | Southwest Human Development | Continue the Raising A Reader program to promote the development of early communication, language and literacy in children from birth to five with an emphasis on meeting children's educational needs during the pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center | Provide general operating support to rehabilitate native animals and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $30,000 |
| Arizona | St. Joseph the Worker | Provide general operating support to help homeless, low-income and other disadvantaged individuals secure employment and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | St. Mary’s Community Food Bank Alliance | Support to deliver food and water to Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe residents suffering from impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Technical Assistance Partnership of Arizona | Support a collaborative eviction-related assistance fund to help address the increase of evictions expected as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Tempe Community Action Agency | Provide general operating support to provide basic services for low-income households and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $35,000 |
| Arizona | The Salvation Army – Phoenix | Provide general operating support to help meet human needs and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Trust For Public Land | Assist in the conservation and restoration of an ecologically important 58-acre property at the confluence of the Verde River and Wet Beaver Creek in Camp Verde, just east of Park Central Farm. | $40,000 |
| Arizona | UMOM New Day Centers | Provide general operating support to serve families experiencing homelessness and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Waste Not | Support to purchase a refrigerated truck to improve efficiency in its food reclamation and distribution system. | $105,000 |
| Arizona | White Tank Mountains Conservancy | Assist in the second phase of a regional multi-sector initiative to plan for sustainable growth around a designated system of linked natural desert corridors in the White Tank Mountains region. | $50,000 |