Arizona · Nonprofit
ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION
ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,353,980 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($468,150). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $896k
What Arizona Technology Council Foundation does
Mission
Engage a connected community to transform lives with access to the world of science, technology, engineering, and math (stem)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The chief science officer (cso) program goals are to create a global network of diverse stem leaders, foster collaboration among cso's enrich stem culture and career awareness and amplify student voice in stem conversations in the community. Cso's consists of students in grades 6-12 who serve as stem ambassadors and liasons for stem opportunities in their schools and communities. During their time as csos, students are able to enhance their workforce and employability skills; join a global network of diverse stem leaders prepared for college, careers, and civic engagement; increase the engagement of community and global stem professionals; and implement stem-focused action plans to impact their communities and raise awareness for the stem causes they champion. Csos advocate for communication, interest, and engagement in stem ("a" including the arts) innovation. They also streamline schools' connections to local businesses and industry, higher education, and professional organizations, working with these entities to offer their peers and community members hands-on experiences that build stem awareness and critical workforce skills. Collaboratively, csos function as a unified…
$1,158,802 spentof which $349,197 as grants$179,939 earned by the program58% of program spendingThe arizona stem ecosystem is a collaborative grassroots network of over 900 partners statewide that include educators, government leaders, and community organizers. Scitech institute serves as the ecosystem's backbone organization, working with these entities to promote stem awareness and career pathways, build leadership and employability skills, and develop a diverse community of qualified arizonans entering higher education and the workforce. The arizona stem ecosystem includes the arizona scitech festival, a statewide celebration of science, technology, engineering, and math (stem) held annually in january through april. Through a series of over 1,000 expos, workshops, conversations, exhibitions, and tours held in diverse neighborhoods throughout the state, the arizona scitech festival educates and involves arizonans of all ages about stem as a driving force for our state's future. In the community, arizona scitech festival has a strong positive impact on businesses, schools, events, city stakeholders and rural communities.
$782,128 spent39% of program spendingScience for all's vision is to foster powerful and enduring networks of nonprofits, industry, academia, civic organizations and the public to put stem within reach of every human being in arizona and beyond. Science for all, llc supports all scitech institute programs. Our mission is to transform lives by providing everyone, particularly low income and underserved populations, with access to the world of possibilities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem).
$64,946 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,005,876.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $1.6M (+43%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 31% · 2022 14% · 2023 33% · 2024 20% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jeremy Babendure
Executive director
Board chair
Robert Witwer
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $20k → $245k.
2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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: $886k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ellis Center for Educational Excellence). These are real filings, and they are not money ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL 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 TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 61% · 2022 38% · 2023 41% — 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
25% of ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
66% of ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $466k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $888k 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 TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- Department of Labor$2.0M
- National Science Foundation$375k
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 TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Science for All · disregarded
- Arizona Technology Council · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL 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 TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION?
- ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,353,980 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($468,150). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,353,980 in grants to ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $468,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL 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.
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 18 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