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Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children

Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,530 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN ($92,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$47k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$158k
Net assets
$348k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children does

Mission

AzAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate and work on behalf of young children.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The AZToolkit is a web-based shared services platform for early childhood professionals. AzAEYC maintains the AZToolkit and customizes it for Arizona. Arizona's Department of Economic Security provided a grant to cover the subscription costs of every DES contracted or DHS licensed center in Arizona.

    $45,497 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Advocacy work has three primary goals: to maximize Child Care and Development Block Grant utilization by influencing Arizona to use new resources to expand access to quality programs; equitably expand access to high-quality child care; and to drive increased state investments in the children of Arizona.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $45,497.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($309k) Expenses 100 ($160k) Net assets 100 ($97k)2021 Revenue 68 ($210k) Expenses 130 ($207k) Net assets 103 ($101k)2022 Revenue 144 ($444k) Expenses 207 ($331k) Net assets 300 ($292k)2023 Revenue 160 ($495k) Expenses 294 ($469k) Net assets 326 ($317k)2024 Revenue 151 ($468k) Expenses 172 ($274k) Net assets 525 ($511k)2025 Revenue 15 ($47k) Expenses 74 ($118k) Net assets 357 ($348k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (15)Expenses (74)Net assets (357)Peer revenue range

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 $399k to $582k (+46%).

$186k
$287k
$450k
$399k
$582k
$419k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

36% of Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$149k
’20
$3k
’21
$113k
’22
$25k
’23
$193k
’24
−$71k
’25
20
months of
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed141411168
Joined·+5+8+11+4
No longer listed·511612
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $32k → $20k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
3
1
1
2
1

From the IRS filings of Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children’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

Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children.

58%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 78% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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

Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 3 states in all.

VA
AZ
DC

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

’20
’21
’22
’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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children's revenue fell 85% between 2020 and 2025.

Operating margin−150% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−31% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children?
Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,530 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN ($92,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $157,530 in grants to Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children?
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN is the largest funder on record, with $92,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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