Arizona · Nonprofit
AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA
AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,369,617 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ($2,310,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Aid to Adoption of Special Kids Aask Arizona does
Mission
To build and strengthen families for the children in arizona's foster care system (primarily in maricopa and pinal counties).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adoption and foster care identifies, recruits and trains community and kinship families to foster children in the arizona foster care system. Specialized foster care identifies foster families for children/adults with special physical or developmental needs as determined by the arizona department of developmental disabilities and two native american communities. Aask assists the families in obtaining and maintaining their foster licenses and provides on-going support and resources for the families. In addition, aask provides support to populations that extend the boundaries of foster care and adoption. These supports include: 1) wendy's wonderful kids recruiters identify families for children in care who are considered "tougher to place; 2) fostering sustainable connections works to reduce children in congregate care and improve family engagement by imploring extensive family finding efforts for the purposes of kin connections and placement. 3) post permanency offers after placement support which includes parent education, training, parent and youth support groups, 24-hr helpline, and help to secure necessary resources to support families, and 4) an aask nursing professional…
$4,974,529 spent$4,760,601 earned by the program65% of program spendingFamily support services (home community based services) identifies service providers to provide respite and habilitation services to families with children and adults determined to be in need of these services by the ahcccs complete care and the arizona department of developmental disabilities.
$2,725,981 spent$3,407,795 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,700,510.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2024 to 2025, from $35M to $38M (+10%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 14% · 2023 2% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Ron Adelson
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Rita Meiser
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $514k → $591k.
7 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. 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
AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 50% · 2019 46% · 2020 62% · 2021 57% · 2022 55% · 2023 57% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
40% of AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $755k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Aask Phoenix Property LLC · disregarded
- Aask Peoria Property LLC · disregarded
- Aask Chandler Property LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA?
- AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,369,617 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ($2,310,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $4,369,617 in grants to AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA?
- DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION is the largest funder on record, with $2,310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 47 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