The Arizona Community Foundation in Phoenix has announced first-quarter grant and scholarship distributions totaling more than $11 million.

The foundation awarded a total of 1,212 grants and scholarships during the first quarter of its fiscal year, which ended in June. In the area of health innovation, the foundation awarded grants totaling nearly $5.6 million to 513 organizations. Recipients include the Children's Center for Neurodevelopmental Studies, the New Life Center, the Jewish Genetic Diseases Center of Greater Phoenix, and Ability360. In the area of education, the foundation awarded a total of $3 million to 172 schools and organizations and $511,326 in college scholarships. Organizations receiving grants include the Arizona Science Center, Good Earth Montessori, and the Flagstaff Public Library Foundation.

The foundation also awarded $966,389 in grants to 103 artistic and cultural organizations, $925,376 in grants to 137 in the area of community improvement and development; and $771,091 in grants to eighty-four organizations and programs in the areas of environmental education, renewable resources, conservation, and animal welfare.

In addition, forty-four nonprofit organizations with agency endowments managed by the foundation received their annual distributions, accounting for the remaining $2,468,833 distributed during the quarter.