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CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY ACTION

CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY ACTION (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $589,000 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY INC ($589,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$629k
Revenue FY2024
1
Funders on record
$589k
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%

Against its field

CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY ACTION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,796 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)186% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,796 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($400) Expenses 100 ($2k) Net assets 100 ($237)2018 Revenue 86476 ($346k) Expenses 19634 ($316k) Net assets 12919 ($31k)2019 Revenue 25779 ($103k) Expenses 8265 ($133k) Net assets 384 ($911)2020 Revenue 174631 ($699k) Expenses 41913 ($674k) Net assets 10924 ($26k)2021 Revenue 93926 ($376k) Expenses 8171 ($131k) Net assets 114046 ($270k)2022 Revenue 275385 ($1.1M) Expenses 83496 ($1.3M) Net assets 12676 ($30k)2023 Revenue 67675 ($271k) Expenses 8420 ($135k) Net assets 69803 ($165k)2024 Revenue 157160 ($629k) Expenses 48497 ($779k) Net assets 6215 ($15k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (157160)Expenses (48497)Net assets (6215)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,977 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
17
$30k
18
$30k
19
$25k
20
$244k
21
$240k
22
$135k
23
$151k
24
0.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $135k → $200k.

Funder
'18
'20
'22
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY ACTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY ACTION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

18
20
22
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY ACTION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Arizona

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 5%Fundraising 4%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Center for Arizona Policy Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY ACTION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY ACTION?
CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY ACTION (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $589,000 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY INC ($589,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY ACTION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $589,000 in grants to CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY ACTION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY ACTION?
CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY INC is the largest funder on record, with $589,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY ACTION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing