Arizona · Nonprofit
AZ COMMON GROUND
AZ COMMON GROUND (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,000 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($113,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $200k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $113k
- Net assets
- $62k
What Az Common Ground does
Mission
To support, advocate and mentor previously incarcerated youth and adults to become servant leaders within Maricopa County.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
1. Employment Support and Success: - Provided employment leads to 1,980 justice-involved residents of Maricopa County. - Successfully facilitated gainful employment for approximately 55% of these individuals and 12% have full time employment. 10% are currently enrolled in career or credential-based training programs. Zero recividism. 2. Reentry Program Achievements: - 58 SMART Recovery & Mentor meetings. 77 active youth. 20 new youth enrolled. 77 families supported with mentoring and referrals. 55 families received targeted referrals addressing behavioral health, housing and other social determinants. 3. Community Service and Engagement: - Clients contributed a total of 3,227 volunteer hours to support community initiatives and build skills including 8 community cleanups and direct support provided to neighborhoods across the City of Phoenix.
$156,743 spent$200,050 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $156,743.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5k to $51k (+872%).
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.
100% of AZ COMMON GROUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Frantz Beasley
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $22k → $11k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 AZ COMMON GROUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
100% of AZ COMMON GROUND'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
AZ COMMON GROUND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AZ COMMON GROUND
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 AZ COMMON GROUND: 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 AZ COMMON GROUND?
- AZ COMMON GROUND (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,000 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($113,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AZ COMMON GROUND have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $113,000 in grants to AZ COMMON GROUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AZ COMMON GROUND?
- ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $113,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AZ COMMON GROUND 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.
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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 2 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