Arizona · Nonprofit
BBB OF CENTRAL ARIZONA FOUNDATION
BBB OF CENTRAL ARIZONA FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,000 to it, the largest being DESERT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION ($65,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $282k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $102k
- Net assets
- $174k
What Bbb of Central Arizona Foundation does
Mission
The purpose of bbb foundation is to educate individuals and businesses about marketplace issues and charitable giving practices and to reinforce bbb's mission of advancing marketplace trust.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The bbb foundation is a supporting organization of the better business bureau, inc. In support of the better business bureau, inc., since 1982. Bbb foundation has provided written materials, visual aids, and speakers to inform the public about wise buying, investments, fraudulent practices, and unethical schemes. The foundation uses its savvy consumer programs to provide comprehensive marketplace information to specific groups such as kids, teens, and seniors. Additionally, the foundation conducts an annual business ethics awards program to recognize local companies who go above and beyond to ensure an ethical marketplace.
$251,236 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $251,236.
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 2020 to 2021, from $109k to $211k (+93%).
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.
115% of BBB OF CENTRAL ARIZONA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% 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.
Board chair
Gary Sneed
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $40k → $25k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 BBB OF CENTRAL 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
BBB OF CENTRAL ARIZONA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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
100% 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 BBB OF CENTRAL ARIZONA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 BBB OF CENTRAL 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. $37k 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
BBB OF CENTRAL ARIZONA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BBB OF CENTRAL 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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Better Business Bureau Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BBB OF CENTRAL 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 BBB OF CENTRAL ARIZONA FOUNDATION?
- BBB OF CENTRAL ARIZONA FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,000 to it, the largest being DESERT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION ($65,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BBB OF CENTRAL ARIZONA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $102,000 in grants to BBB OF CENTRAL ARIZONA FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BBB OF CENTRAL ARIZONA FOUNDATION?
- DESERT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BBB OF CENTRAL 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.
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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 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