Your donation to the QCO tax credit will support organizations assisting low income children, individuals and families.
Contributions for the 2022 tax year can be made through April 15, 2023.
- Maximum contributions are $400 for filing single, or $800 for filing jointly.
- Uses Tax Credit Form 321.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this donation a dollar-for-dollar tax credit off my Arizona State taxes?
Yes. Up to the maximum yearly donations set by the state, this donation is a dollar-for-dollar tax credit off your Arizona State taxes.
What organizations can receive a Qualified Charitable Tax Credit Donation? Only organizations that have been approved by the State of Arizona to operate as a Qualified Charitable Organization. A list of current organizations that are approved to take these funds can be found on this website.
Can a taxpayer claim multiple tax credits in the same taxable year? Yes.
Can I recommend a specific child receive my donation? No.
What forms should an individual use to claim these credits? Arizona Form 321.
Must the credit for contributions be claimed in the year of donation? No. Credit eligible donations from January 1 through April 15 of a calendar year may be used as a tax credit on the prior year’s tax return. For example, qualifying donations made January 1, 2022 to April 15, 2022 may be used as a tax credit on either your 2021 or 2022 Arizona income tax return.
Can a taxpayer receive a refund of these credits? No. The credits may only be used to the extent they reduce a tax liability to zero. Any unused amounts may be carried forward for up to five consecutive taxable years.
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Animals Helping Humans
TRAK Therapeutic Ranch – Strengthening kids and community through animal interaction. Watch our video to learn more.
TROT – Changing lives one stride at a time. TROT provides services to a diverse population of children and adults living with disabilities, starting at age four and including a specific class for military Veterans. Watch our video to learn more.
Behavioral Health/Substance Abuse
Arizona Youth Partnership – Building solid foundations for youth and families by partnering with Arizona communities to prevent and solve local issues such as substance abuse, youth homelessness, lack of educational opportunities, teen pregnancy, and challenging family dynamics.
Arizona’s Children Association – Providing a variety of programs and services to meet the needs of more than 40,000 children, youth, and families each year.
Eagles Wings of Grace – Helping local disadvantaged women move from devastation to destiny after life-altering situations such as addiction, abuse, and incarcerations.
Interfaith Community Services – Helping people in need achieve stable, healthy, and independent lives.
La Frontera – Providing outpatient and residential mental health and substance abuse treatment services to children, youth, and adults in Pima County, Arizona.
Miracle Center – Creating renewal through an individualized 18-month program, designed to help women foster a Christ-centered lifestyle, secure stable housing, employment and reach their full potential. Watch our video to learn more.
Reach for the Stars – Improving mental health for children and the community: through astronomy, STEM, and volunteer opportunities, influencing the course of history for generations to come.
Southeastern Arizona Behavioral Health Services (SEABHS) – Offering a wide array of services for children and adults, including persons deemed to be seriously mentally ill, and persons struggling with substances.
Teen Challenge – Seeing all people freed from addiction through the power of Jesus Christ!
Domestic Violence/Trafficking
Eagles Wings of Grace – Helping local disadvantaged women move from devastation to destiny after life-altering situations such as addiction, abuse, and incarcerations.
Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse – Providing the opportunity to create, sustain, and celebrate a life free from abuse. Emerge offers a comprehensive range of support services to those experiencing domestic abuse. Watch our video to learn more.
Education
Educational Enrichment Foundation– Providing resources to expand and enrich student learning in the Tucson Unified School District.
Junior Achievement of Arizona – Preparing more than 80,000 primarily low-income students each year to succeed in work and life by giving them the skills needed to manage their money, thrive in their future careers and to think innovatively.
Science of Sport – Bringing math and science to life through Sports.
Employment Assistance
Beacon Group – Creating opportunities for people with disabilities helping them live meaningful and fulfilling lives.
Miracle Center – Creating renewal through an individualized 18-month program, designed to help women foster a Christ-centered lifestyle, secure stable housing, employment and reach their full potential. Watch our video to learn more.
Family Support
Arizona Youth Partnership – Building solid foundations for youth and families by partnering with Arizona communities to prevent and solve local issues such as substance abuse, youth homelessness, lack of educational opportunities, teen pregnancy, and challenging family dynamics.
Arizona’s Children Association – Providing a variety of programs and services to meet the needs of more than 40,000 children, youth, and families each year. Watch our video to learn more.
Caring Ministries – Supporting local communities by providing food, clothing, and other resources while sharing the love and salvation of Jesus Christ to everyone we serve.
Children’s Clinics Rehabilitative Services – Providing a family centered comprehensive medical home to meet the special needs of children and families.
F.O.R Maricopa – Providing food and other resources for the families of Maricopa and surrounding communities. Watch our video to learn more.
Habitat for Humanity – Bringing people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest – Stabilizing people during crisis and transition, building a foundation where people can thrive, and preserving dignity and respect for the most vulnerable.
Parent Aid Child Abuse Prevention Center – Preventing Child abuse by strengthening families and our community. Watch our video to learn more.
Tucson Jewish Free Loan – Providing interest-free loans to enhance the quality of life of Jewish Arizonans.
Food Bank/Assistance
Caring Ministries – Supporting local communities by providing food, clothing, and other resources while sharing the love and salvation of Jesus Christ to everyone we serve.
Felicia’s Farm – Helping very low income and/or homeless people have better food to eat.
F.O.R Maricopa – Providing food and other resources for the families of Maricopa and surrounding. Watch our video to learn more.
Midwest Food Bank – Alleviating hunger and malnutrition locally and throughout the world and providing disaster relief; all without discrimination.
Healthcare Organizations
Bio-Touch (International Foundation of Bio-Magnetics) – Teaching Bio-Touch Healing to empower people, locally and globally, to help each other with stress, pain & symptoms of disease. Providing hope and helping everyone reclaim their birthright to be healthy, happy & loved. Watch our video to learn more.
Children’s Clinics Rehabilitative Services – Providing a family centered comprehensive medical home to meet the special needs of children and families.
Friends of Aphasia – Providing high-quality, patient-centered aphasia services, including a comprehensive aphasia group program, community support teams, and technology resources, to anyone who might benefit.
Hands of Hope Tucson – Promoting a culture of life, hope, and healing, by caring for those facing unplanned pregnancy. Through our Christ centered organization, we reveal the truth about the unborn person, teach sexual integrity, and offer a path to healing from an abortion experience.
Housing & Homeless Assistance
Compass Affordable Housing – Improving the quality of family and community life through low-cost housing, support services, and advocacy.
Habitat for Humanity– Bringing people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
Tierra Antigua Hope Foundation – Helping people at or below the poverty level in the state of Arizona who are in need of food, clothing, shelter improvement, and other necessities to assist in their day-to-day living.
Legal Aid
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project – Provides free legal and social services to detained men, women, and children under threat of deportation.
Southern Arizona Justice for Veterans (SAJV) – Providing direct funding and support to veterans with non-violent misdemeanor charges, helping them to avoid the stigma of a criminal conviction.
Refugee Assistance
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project – Provides free legal and social services to detained men, women, and children under threat of deportation.
Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest– Stabilizing people during crisis and transition, building a foundation where people can thrive, and preserving dignity and respect for the most vulnerable.
Religious Based Organizations - Catholic
Religious Based Organizations - Christian
Caring Ministries– Supporting local communities by providing food, clothing, and other resources while sharing the love and salvation of Jesus Christ to everyone we serve.
Habitat for Humanity – Bringing people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Hands of Hope Tucson – Promoting a culture of life, hope, and healing, by caring for those facing unplanned pregnancy. Through our Christ centered organization, we reveal the truth about the unborn person, teach sexual integrity, and offer a path to healing from an abortion experience.
Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest – Stabilizing people during crisis and transition, building a foundation where people can thrive, and preserving dignity and respect for the most vulnerable.
Miracle Center – Creating renewal through an individualized 18-month program, designed to help women foster a Christ-centered lifestyle, secure stable housing, employment and reach their full potential. Watch our video to learn more.
Teen Challenge – Seeing all people freed from addiction through the power of Jesus Christ!
Religious Based Organizations - Jewish
Senior Support
Friends of Aphasia – Providing high-quality, patient-centered aphasia services, including a comprehensive aphasia group program, community support teams, and technology resources, to anyone who might benefit.
Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest – Stabilizing people during crisis and transition, building a foundation where people can thrive, and preserving dignity and respect for the most vulnerable.
Special Needs
Beacon Group – Creating opportunities for people with disabilities helping them live meaningful and fulfilling lives.
Children’s Clinics Rehabilitative Services – Providing a family centered comprehensive medical home to meet the special needs of children and families.
Desert Survivors – Creating a unique synergy of integrated employment for adults with intellectual developmental disabilities and a retail native plant nursery in a horticultural therapy setting, celebrating respect for all, human dignity, community, and a sense of place. Watch our video to learn more.
TRAK Therapeutic Ranch – Strengthening kids and community through animal interaction. Watch our video to learn more.
TROT – Changing lives one stride at a time. TROT provides services to a diverse population of children and adults living with disabilities, starting at age four and including a specific class for military Veterans. Watch our video to learn more.
Veterans and Military
Southern Arizona Justice for Veterans (SAJV) – Providing direct funding and support to veterans with non-violent misdemeanor charges, helping them to avoid the stigma of a criminal conviction.
TRAK Therapeutic Ranch – Strengthening kids and community through animal interaction. Watch our video to learn more.
TROT – Changing lives one stride at a time. TROT provides services to a diverse population of children and adults living with disabilities, starting at age four and including a specific class for military Veterans. Watch our video to learn more.
Women’s Support
Hands of Hope Tucson – Promoting a culture of life, hope, and healing, by caring for those facing unplanned pregnancy. Through our Christ centered organization, we reveal the truth about the unborn person, teach sexual integrity, and offer a path to healing from an abortion experience.
Miracle Center – Creating renewal through an individualized 18-month program, designed to help women foster a Christ-centered lifestyle, secure stable housing, employment and reach their full potential. Watch our video to learn more.
YWCA Southern Arizona – Eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. Watch our video to learn more.
Youth Support
Arizona Youth Partnership – Building solid foundations for youth and families by partnering with Arizona communities to prevent and solve local issues such as substance abuse, youth homelessness, lack of educational opportunities, teen pregnancy, and challenging family dynamics.
Boy Scouts of America – Catalina Council – Preparing young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
Educational Enrichment Foundation – Providing resources to expand and enrich student learning in the Tucson Unified School District.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern AZ – Helping children realize their potential.
Junior Achievement of Arizona – Preparing more than 80,000 primarily low-income students each year to succeed in work and life by giving them the skills needed to manage their money, thrive in their future careers and to think innovatively.
Reach for the Stars – Improving mental health for children and the community: through astronomy, STEM, and volunteer opportunities, influencing the course of history for generations to come.
Science of Sport – Bringing math and science to life through Sports.
Teen Challenge – Seeing all people freed from addiction through the power of Jesus Christ!
TRAK Therapeutic Ranch – Strengthening kids and community through animal interaction. Watch our video to learn more.
OR
Click here to view the complete list of Qualified Charitable Organizations (PDF)
If you do not see the organization you want to donate to on this list, please call us. (480) 865-8081