Arizona · Nonprofit
Arizona Refugee Center
Arizona Refugee Center (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,250 to it, the largest being THE SMITH TIEKEN FOUNDATION INC ($235,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Arizona Refugee Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Valley of the Sun United Waylocalportfolio match
- Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moinesshared funders
- Interest Ministriesportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Arizona Refugee Center’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 Refugee Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Refugee Center's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Valley of the Sun United Waylocalportfolio matchAZ · funds 211 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moinesshared fundersIA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- Interest Ministriesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicalsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jane E Hendricks Charitable Trust Luan Wagner Co-trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marshall Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connie Hillman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizonaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Social Venture Partners Tucsonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Witthoft Apprill Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Arizona Refugee Center
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
0%
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 Refugee Center: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Arizona Refugee Center?
- Arizona Refugee Center (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,250 to it, the largest being THE SMITH TIEKEN FOUNDATION INC ($235,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Arizona Refugee Center have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $235,250 in grants to Arizona Refugee Center, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Arizona Refugee Center?
- THE SMITH TIEKEN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arizona Refugee Center 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing