Arizona · Nonprofit
ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST (Arizona) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,612,618 to it, the largest being ARIZONA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION ($435,879). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $801k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest does
Mission
The Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest is a non-profit law firm dedicated to ensuring government accountability and protecting the legal rights of arizonans.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest ("aclpi- or "the center") only litigates cases that serve the public interest. In 2024, our cases all served the broad public interest. In all of the center's cases, we do not charge our clients attorneys' fees. Arizona recognizes the private attorney general doctrine and has specific statutes that provide for an award of fees for the successful party. Under this doctrine, the center will seek attorneys' fees from the adverse party (the state of arizona). 1. The center is litigating a case against the state of arizona for its failure to adequately fund the capital needs of arizonas public schools. This case is actually a follow up case to one that the center successfully litigated 30 years ago. As a result of that case, funds were provided to bring all dilapidated schools up to standard, and money was to be provided to keep all schools in good shape. The legislature subsequently de-funded most of the programs that were established as part of the resolution of the old case, and arizona is once again in a system under which a school districts ability to meet its capital needs depends to a very large extent on the amount of property…
$828,040 spent$75,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $828,040.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $469k to $1.7M (+268%).
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.
78% of ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $71k → $114k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST’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 CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
96% 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 CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 54% · 2019 50% · 2020 32% · 2021 42% · 2022 77% · 2023 61% — 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
47% of ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $321k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST?
- ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST (Arizona) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,612,618 to it, the largest being ARIZONA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION ($435,879). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,612,618 in grants to ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST?
- ARIZONA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $435,879 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 25 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