Arizona · Nonprofit
ARIZONA BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION
ARIZONA BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,500 to it, the largest being ELLIS CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE ($135,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $451k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $275k
- Net assets
- $275k
What Arizona Business & Education Coalition does
Mission
Sustaining collaboration between business and education leaders, with linkages to pre-kindergarten and higher education, focused to increasing measurable outcomes for every student, by serving as a non-partisan forum to educate others, build political will toward the improvement and investment in k-12 as an element of a superior public education system and economic future for arizona.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To advocate for sound accountability and increase student performance through public policy, to understand education revenue sources and expenditures, and promote fiscal accountability and serve as a public forum for education.
$788,779 spent$84,479 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $788,779.
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 2021 to 2022, from $126k to $653k (+420%).
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: 2023 42% · 2024 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of ARIZONA BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Vispi Karanjia
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $60k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 ARIZONA BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION’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 BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 88% · 2023 100% — 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
94% of ARIZONA BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ARIZONA BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARIZONA BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARIZONA BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION: 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 ARIZONA BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION?
- ARIZONA BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,500 to it, the largest being ELLIS CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE ($135,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARIZONA BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $274,500 in grants to ARIZONA BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARIZONA BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION?
- ELLIS CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARIZONA BUSINESS & EDUCATION COALITION 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 7 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