History of the Tucson Foundations
Ashby I. Lohse, a native Tucsonan, specialized in estate planning and probate law. Many of his clients established private foundations through their wills upon their deaths. The 11 foundations directed by the Lohse Family, are collectively called the Tucson Foundations.
Values
Values are the standards of behavior that influence and define our culture and decision-making framework.
- Collaboration: We value partnership efforts that achieve broader equitable results.
- Respect: We have due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, and traditions of others.
- Integrity: We value clarity, honesty, and directness so that others will always know where we stand.
- Stewardship: We value maximizing the effective and efficient implementation of human and financial resources in perpetuity.
Theory of Change
Through relational, flexible, philanthropic grants, we can accelerate the speed of impact with grantees, using data-informed decision-making to increase population-level outcomes.
- Flexible Philanthropy: Funding options include leverage/challenge/matching grants, multi-year program funding, capital campaign contributions, operating grants, emergency funds, Collective Impact Backbone Support, and permanently restricted endowments. The foundations’ corpus is also available for investments such as loans, gap funding, construction financing, and loans for “undesirable nonprofit projects.”
- Data-Informed Decision-Making: Meaningful, reliable, organized, unbiased, person-level data will expose insights into actionable decisions that drive results.
- Shifting Assets with Trusted Partners: Building progressive philanthropic investments of capacity with singular grantees over time, strategically increasing their days of working capital, net assets, staff (paid and unpaid), and the competencies to steward them sustainably.
