Arizona · Nonprofit
Arizona Media Association
Arizona Media Association (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,770 to it, the largest being The M K Owens Foundation ($1,770). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Arizona Media Association does
Mission
The mission of the Arizona Media Association (AMA) is to invest in projects that futureproof Arizona local media and protect its critical role in community connection. The AMA currently represents more than 350 statewide media brands.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Awarded $68,400 in internships funding to help members build future employee pipelines.Allocated $74,560 to fund student training programs, career fairs, and scholarships. This included three career fairs attended by more than 40 brands. Produced and distributed 3 political debates to our membership and audiences across Arizona. Dedicated $250,000 to continue the growth of an Arizona Local News Foundation. Invested $40,000 to commission an Arizona media research study of 2025 consumer habits across the state. Supported $160,000 in local media advocacy and legal support, including $125,000 for lobbying support.Maintained an Arizona media website career page, open to all members, to post local media jobs. In 2025, more than 300 jobs were posted.Sent out weekly emails with Arizona local media news, events, industry trends, and key services, and hosted an annual awards luncheon to recognize the best of the media business.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.4M to $3.7M (+52%).
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.
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
Chris Kline
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $770 → $1k.
From the IRS filings of Arizona Media 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Arizona Media 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. 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.
Organizations like Arizona Media 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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Arizona Media 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 Media Association?
- Arizona Media Association (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,770 to it, the largest being The M K Owens Foundation ($1,770). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Arizona Media Association have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,770 in grants to Arizona Media Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Arizona Media Association?
- The M K Owens Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arizona Media 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 1 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