Arizona · Nonprofit
Arizona Community Action Association
Arizona Community Action Association (Arizona) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,145,876 to it, the largest being PILGRIM REST FOUNDATION INC ($5,838,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Arizona Community Action Association does
Mission
ACAA addresses poverty across Arizona. Through a collaboration of nearly 300 organizations and individuals, ACAA develops and implements strategies to address and ultimately eliminate poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
SNAP OUTREACH AND EDUCATION Wildfires 71 community partners explained the SNAP eligibility process and requirements to clients, assisted with the completion of Healthy Arizona Plus HEAplus applications, and individuals received assistance with Arizona Self Help prescreening to determine eligibility and assist with enrollment in the SNAP program where appropriate. In FY 25, Wildfire and its partners provided application assistance to 59,060 households.
$4,249,756 spent49% of program spendingHOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE FUND - The Home Energy Assistance Fund partners with 44 organizations made up of non-profits, faith-based organizations and governmental entities to serve vulnerable families in all 15 counties. Individuals received utility bill and deposit assistance, weatherization services, utility appliance repair and replacement support. The outcome of these programs is more affordable utility bills and housing safety and sustainability. In FY 2025, Wildfire served 7,862 households and 21,834 individual household members.
$3,365,125 spentof which $14,528 as grants$564,221 earned by the program39% of program spendingDIAPER DISTRIBUTION RESEARCH PILOT DDRP With federal funding provided by the Health Human Services, Wildfire is administering Arizonas DDRP program. The program is the first federally funded diaper distribution pilot and is working to leverage existing community resources and provide wraparound services for low-income families experiencing diaper need. Wildfire partnered with 8 Arizona Community Action Agencies to distribute 1.34 million diapers in FY 25.
$779,663 spentof which $183,523 as grants9% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 174,667, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 CSBG Wildfire supports the Community Action Agency network as they implement the CSBG organizational performance standards, Results-Oriented Management and Accountability Standards, transformational case management models, and advocates on their behalf with various state and federal entities for funding support. The Community Action Network provides direct support to over 120,000 low-income Arizonans through the provision of emergency services and case management, helping to lift families out of poverty. Our work supports the CAAs ability to provide the services necessary, focusing on critical needs and programmatic and community-based solutions to poverty in their service territory. Program Service Expenses 118,619, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 EVICTION AND ADVOCACY Wildfire works on policy issues to address the causes and consequences of poverty. Policy work includes legislative modifications needed and partnerships with organizations throughout Arizona working to develop and implement programmatic support. In 2025, Wildfire achieved several significant milestones in our energy and housing…
$337,890 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,732,434.
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.
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 $37M to $19M (−49%).
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 63% · 2019 49% · 2020 48% · 2021 87% · 2022 84% · 2023 56% · 2024 49% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Kelly McGowan
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $1.9M → $176k.
1 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Community Action Association’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 Community Action Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Community Action Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 89% · 2022 94% · 2023 69% — 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of Arizona Community Action Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
94% of Arizona Community Action Association's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k 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.
Government funding Arizona Community Action Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.3M
- Department of the Treasury$1.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Arizona Community Action Association
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 Community Action Association: 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 Community Action Association?
- Arizona Community Action Association (Arizona) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,145,876 to it, the largest being PILGRIM REST FOUNDATION INC ($5,838,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Arizona Community Action Association have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $7,145,876 in grants to Arizona Community Action Association, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Arizona Community Action Association?
- PILGRIM REST FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,838,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arizona Community Action Association 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 14 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