Arizona · Nonprofit
ARIZONA CENTER FOR RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL
ARIZONA CENTER FOR RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,000 to it, the largest being Dr Scholl Foundation ($245,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $461k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $275k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Arizona Center for Rural Leadership Project Central does
Mission
To assist highly motivated leaders improve and expand their leadership skills to become more responsive and effective in meeting the needs of rural people in public affairs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Educational leadership training for adults. During the year, there were numerous participants who attended multi-day seminars. The alumni association was also supported. In 2024, the organization hosted several events, including the kingman crc in november and seminars for class 33 including locations like show low and ciudad obregon, mexico.
$379,107 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $379,107.
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 $1.9M to $1.7M (−11%).
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 43% · 2018 29% · 2019 36% · 2021 36% · 2022 19% · 2023 34% · 2024 54% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of ARIZONA CENTER FOR RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Scott Koenig
Executive director
Board chair
Glenna Mccollum-Cloud
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $45k.
From the IRS filings of ARIZONA CENTER FOR RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL’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 RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 78% — 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 CENTER FOR RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
ARIZONA CENTER FOR RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARIZONA CENTER FOR RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARIZONA CENTER FOR RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL: 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 CENTER FOR RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL?
- ARIZONA CENTER FOR RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,000 to it, the largest being Dr Scholl Foundation ($245,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARIZONA CENTER FOR RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $275,000 in grants to ARIZONA CENTER FOR RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARIZONA CENTER FOR RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL?
- Dr Scholl Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $245,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARIZONA CENTER FOR RURAL LEADERSHIP PROJECT CENTRAL 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 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