Arizona · Nonprofit
Arizona Local News Foundation
Arizona Local News Foundation (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,580,000 to it, the largest being POTOFF PRIVATE PHILANTHROPY ($1,475,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Arizona Local News Foundation does
Mission
The Arizona Local News Foundation exists to connect communities with more local news and information. Backed by the Arizona Media Association and overseen by an independent board of local journalism supporters, we fund programs that ensure local news is accessible in every Arizona community. Over just the last decade, Arizona has lost hundreds of local journalists and dozens of local media sources because of fast-changing technology and weakened business models. That trend is accelerating and many Arizona small towns are now designated as new deserts, meaning they no longer have any local news source. This is a threat to democracy just as much as a threat to information. We are a coalition supported by nearly every local media brand operating in the state. Arizona Local News Foundation is here to fix the problem and need more philanthropic support to join us.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Foundation fully funded 32 paid interships at newsrooms across Arizona.The Foundation launched the Arizona Community Collaborative to focus more conversation on education solutions by fully supporting 16 local newsrooms that are receiving 24 months of funding.The Foundation held 3 symposiums centered around education solutions in Arizona throughout the state.
$1,041,259 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,041,259.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $50k to $1.2M (+2326%).
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.
92% of Arizona Local News Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Chris Kline
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 7 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $610k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arizona Media Association). These are real filings, and they are not money Arizona Local News Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Arizona Local News Foundation’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 Local News Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
“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
100% of Arizona Local News Foundation's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Local News Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Arizona Local News Foundation
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Arizona Media Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Arizona Local News Foundation: 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 Local News Foundation?
- Arizona Local News Foundation (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,580,000 to it, the largest being POTOFF PRIVATE PHILANTHROPY ($1,475,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Arizona Local News Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,580,000 in grants to Arizona Local News Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Arizona Local News Foundation?
- POTOFF PRIVATE PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $1,475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arizona Local News Foundation 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 2023–2025), 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