Arizona · Nonprofit
ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM
ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM (Arizona) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,491,156 to it, the largest being PRISCILLA AND MICHAEL BALDWIN FOUNDATION ($5,659,036). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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.
- Connie Hillman Family Foundationshared funderslocal
- Kurz Charitable Trust & Foundation 10018300portfolio match
- Earthwatch Institute Incportfolio match
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.
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 9% · 2021 19% · 2022 1% · 2023 4% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $228k → $2.3M.
17 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 funders by total. 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-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 84% · 2019 48% · 2020 66% · 2021 32% · 2022 51% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.
“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
45% of ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.
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. Your 102 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Connie Hillman Family Foundationshared funderslocalAZ · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 74 organizations near you
- Kurz Charitable Trust & Foundation 10018300portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Earthwatch Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nyholm Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kisco Cares Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Paul & Betty Baldacci Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunkara Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Brunckhorst Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwest Foundation for Education & Historical Preservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- YWCA of Southern ArizonalocalAZ · funds 431 organizations near you
- Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern ArizonalocalAZ · funds 73 organizations near you
- Social Venture Partners TucsonlocalAZ · funds 42 organizations near you
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.
Government funding ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of the Interior$786k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$235k
- Department of Agriculture$50k
- Department of Defense$7k
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-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: 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-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM?
- ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM (Arizona) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,491,156 to it, the largest being PRISCILLA AND MICHAEL BALDWIN FOUNDATION ($5,659,036). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $14,491,156 in grants to ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM?
- PRISCILLA AND MICHAEL BALDWIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,659,036 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 102funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing