Arizona · Nonprofit
ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND
ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND (Arizona) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,660,000 to it, the largest being TELESCOPE FUND ($1,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Activate 48 Education Fund does
Mission
Through leadership development, public education, and community mobilization, activate 48 strengthens civic engagement and democratic participation for historically marginalized communities across arizona.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Through leadership development, public education, and community mobilization, activate 48 strengthens civic engagement and democratic participation for historically marginalized communities across arizona.
$118,674 spentof which $40,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $118,674.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $2.1M (+106%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $685k → $2.7M.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
79% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 44% · 2022 30% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Activate 48 Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND?
- ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND (Arizona) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,660,000 to it, the largest being TELESCOPE FUND ($1,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $6,660,000 in grants to ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND?
- TELESCOPE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing