Arizona · Nonprofit
BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING
BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING (Arizona) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,379,942 to it, the largest being SCARCELLI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($235,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $581k
What Beads of Courage Inc Dba Center for Arts in Nursing does
Mission
Providing innovative arts in medicine programs for children coping with serious illness, their families and the health care providers who care for them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The beads of courage program is our fellowship program and is a resilience-based intervention desgined to support and strenthen children and teens coping with serious illness and their families. It is the standard of care in more than 300 children's hospitals worldwide. Through the program children tell their story using colorful beads that serve as meaningful symbols honoring their courage displayed along their unique treatment path. Beads of courage, inc. Maintains the invenotry of all program materials for implementation including all training materials, the beads of courage ambassador workshop for reflection and renewal, flagship program beads, handmade beads, storage solutions, print and all program related materials currently providing support to over 75,000 children in over 300 hospitals worldwide. There are specific beads of courage program bead guides to support children coping with serious illness such as cancer, blood conditions, cardiac conditions, various chronic conditions, rehabilitation, trauma and burn injury recovery and experiences in pediatric intensive care and neonatal intensive care units.
$625,306 spent$285,574 earned by the program65% of program spendingCommunity engagement & encouragement programs connect the kindness of others with the courage of the children, families, and clinicians. Mission centric encouragement programs engage the community at large to be a source of encouragement for a child or teen that we support. These programs include our innovative carry a bead program; strength bracelets, courage clips; bead making workshops; art card kits. Additionaly, our encouragement programs include the great work we do to solicit donations of beads from bead and polymer artists; boxes and bowls from woodturners; and supporting our partner studios who host bead making events throughout the year which is inclusive of the oportunity for beads of courage children to submit their "dream bead" request.
$213,467 spent$109,947 earned by the program22% of program spendingComplimentary programs provide support to children coping with serious illness, their families and the clinicians who care for them. They allow participants to thrive in a supportive context that includes their family, community, and the professional healthcare providers who care for them. Beads of courage's complimentary programs include beads of courage: sibling program, bead strong, bead mindful for clinicians, I'm fine workshops for clinicians, dream (draw, relax and embrace art and the mind), the beads of courage strand for strength and remembrance workshop, and power pendants for adolescents and young adults.
$92,923 spent$112,074 earned by the program10% of program spendingCenter for arts in nursing (can) programs exist to support and strengthen experiences in human caring through the arts. Adopting beads of courage programs (bead strong, bead mindful, dream, and I'm f.I.n.e.), the center for arts in nursing provides for the positive well-being of individuals across the lifespan through the arts, including clinicians. Bead mindful and I'm f.I.n.e. Are provided to clinicians seeking a meaningful and consistent practice of reflection and renewal. Using beads, poetry, and connection, the programs create space for purposeful presence, aiming to ease stress, reduce caregiver burnout, and enrich the caregiving experience wherever it's embraced. Through the dream program participants use the power of art, expression, and connection to encourage everyone to draw, reflect, and embrace the healing power of art. Through the beads strong program, participants are indtroduced to and use the elements of mindfulness - breathwork, mandalas, mantras, expressive and reflective art and the artform of beads care for their whole-self and well-being.
$31,649 spent$11,995 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $963,345.
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 $954k to $1.6M (+68%).
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.
72% of BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Elizabeth Moneck
CEO
Board chair
Matthew Mars
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $31k → $157k.
11 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
51% 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 BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 64% · 2019 43% · 2020 34% · 2021 51% · 2022 39% · 2023 32% — 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
30% of BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $484k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING?
- BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING (Arizona) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,379,942 to it, the largest being SCARCELLI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($235,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $1,379,942 in grants to BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING?
- SCARCELLI FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING 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 52 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