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Raymond & Margaret Vicker Trust

Tucson, AZ · EIN 30-0692755. Reported 51 grants totalling $796,500 to 24 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$796,500granted, 2021-2025
24recipients, as named on its returns
65%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,879,651assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Raymond & Margaret Vicker Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $1,500 and the largest $55,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
9 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
17 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
12 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
6 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Caseys ChildrenTucson, AZ$205,000442025
Arizona Land & Water TrustTucson, AZ$95,000222025
Arizona Land and Water Trust IncTucson, AZ$80,000222022
Escuela De VictoriaPhoenix, AZ$55,000222025
San Miguel of Tucson CorporationTucson, AZ$51,000222022
CASA Adobes Rotary FoundationTucson, AZ$45,000332025
Casey Family ProgramsSeattle, WA$40,000112021
Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation IncTucson, AZ$30,000222022
Rincon Rotary Club FoundationTucson, AZ$25,000552025
Youth on Their OwnTucson, AZ$20,000442025
The Centurions of Southern Arizona Charitable FoundationTucson, AZ$16,000552025
CASA De Los Ninos IncTucson, AZ$15,000332025
Esperanca Arizona LLCPhoenix, AZ$15,000112022
Mexico Children's FoundationScottsdale, AZ$15,000112023
Patronato San XavierTucson, AZ$15,000332025
Steps of LovePhoenix, AZ$13,500112021
International School of TucsonTucson, AZ$12,000112025
Citizenship CoalitionDedham, MA$10,000112025
Life CircleSanta Fe, NM$10,000112022
Social Good FundRichmond, CA$10,000112023
Tucson Festival of BooksTucson, AZ$10,000332025
CASA De Los Nios IncTucson, AZ$5,000112022
Arizona Womens ChorusTucson, AZ$2,000112022
Integrative TouchTucson, AZ$2,000112023

13 of 24 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 65%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 27 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
9 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Environment
4 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20218$155,000$14,250
202212$174,000$7,500
20239$110,500$5,000
202410$174,000$5,000
202512$183,000$7,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

91% of its giving went to organizations in Arizona. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Arizona
$726K
Washington
$40K
California
$10K
New Mexico
$10K
Massachusetts
$10K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation for7 shared recipientsThe Hs Lopez Family Foundation5 shared recipientsArizona Community Foundation5 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Arizona.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Raymond & Margaret Vicker Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 3430 E Sunrise Dr 200, Tucson, AZ, 85718. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 30-0692755 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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