Arizona · Nonprofit
ASPIRE ARIZONA FOUNDATION
ASPIRE ARIZONA FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $344,570 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($146,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $240k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $345k
- Net assets
- $247k
What Aspire Arizona Foundation does
Mission
The mission of Aspire Arizona Foundation is to support the higher education needs of payson arizona and its surrounding rim country rural communities. We help young adults aspire to higher education by making a college education accessible, attainable, and affordable.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of Aspire Arizona Foundation is to support the higher education needs of payson arizona and its surrounding rim country rural communities. We help young adults aspire to higher education by making a college education accessible, attainable, and affordable.our mission will be achieved by:- paying dual credit tuition for academic classes for students at payson high school and home-schooled students provided by gcc at the high school and on the gcc campus;- supporting state of the art technology that efficiently delivers instruction and allows students to learn remotely;- supporting programs which create a culture of higher education and university attendance among students;- supporting the future development of a university campus in payson.
$142,803 spentof which $131,891 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $142,803.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $157k to $247k (+57%).
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.
95% of ASPIRE ARIZONA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $45k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 ASPIRE ARIZONA 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
ASPIRE ARIZONA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 ASPIRE ARIZONA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 49% · 2022 44% · 2023 37% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of ASPIRE ARIZONA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $146k 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
ASPIRE ARIZONA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ASPIRE ARIZONA 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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 ASPIRE ARIZONA 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 ASPIRE ARIZONA FOUNDATION?
- ASPIRE ARIZONA FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $344,570 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($146,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASPIRE ARIZONA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $344,570 in grants to ASPIRE ARIZONA FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASPIRE ARIZONA FOUNDATION?
- ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $146,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASPIRE ARIZONA 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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