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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,500 to it, the largest being The Kautz Family Foundation ($162,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.5M
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$189k
Grants received
$5.6M
Net assets
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($695k) Expenses 100 ($85k) Net assets 100 ($956k)2018 Revenue 262 ($1.8M) Expenses 760 ($644k) Net assets 223 ($2.1M)2019 Revenue 257 ($1.8M) Expenses 1183 ($1.0M) Net assets 305 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 162 ($1.1M) Expenses 1272 ($1.1M) Net assets 310 ($3.0M)2021 Revenue 252 ($1.8M) Expenses 1398 ($1.2M) Net assets 369 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 342 ($2.4M) Expenses 1157 ($980k) Net assets 511 ($4.9M)2023 Revenue 212 ($1.5M) Expenses 1551 ($1.3M) Net assets 517 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 177 ($1.2M) Expenses 1097 ($929k) Net assets 575 ($5.5M)2025 Revenue 214 ($1.5M) Expenses 1832 ($1.6M) Net assets 582 ($5.6M)
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Revenue (214)Expenses (1832)Net assets (582)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$610k
17
$1.2M
18
$781k
19
$51k
20
$566k
21
$1.4M
22
$157k
23
$298k
24
$67k
25
8.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $15k.

Left out of every figure on this page: $4.7M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Civil Liberties Union Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA raised.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA’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

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 100% · 2023 99%broadly stable.

“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

95% of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

IL
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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19
20
23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Arizona

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • ACLU Foundation of Arizona · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA: 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 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA?
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,500 to it, the largest being The Kautz Family Foundation ($162,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $188,500 in grants to AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA?
The Kautz Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $162,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF 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.

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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing