Arizona · Nonprofit
CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC
CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,799,573 to it, the largest being Valley of the Sun United Way ($3,543,342). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 44 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 367 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- Area Agency on Aging Region One Inclocalportfolio match
- The Foster Alliancelocalportfolio match
- Executive Council Charitiesshared funderslocal
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 59% · 2018 62% · 2019 63% · 2020 59% · 2021 82% · 2022 78% · 2023 61% · 2024 79% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (12% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $962k → $1.7M.
15 of 94 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $20k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Human Services Campus Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 94 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
CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 76% · 2019 70% · 2020 17% · 2021 39% · 2022 75% · 2023 9% — 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.
How long its funders stay
48% of CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
85% of CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
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. Your 94 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Area Agency on Aging Region One Inclocalportfolio matchAZ · funds 63 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Foster Alliancelocalportfolio matchAZ · funds 69 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Executive Council Charitiesshared funderslocalAZ · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 82 organizations near you
- Shoebox Ministry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western Alliance Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harold Edelstein Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Goldsmith Legacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fiesta Events Incshared funderslocalAZ · backs 107 organizations that share your funders · funds 158 organizations near you
- Saguaros Childrens Charitiesshared funderslocalAZ · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 70 organizations near you
- Ibis Foundation of Arizona co Casey LeSueur Getz CPAs PLLCshared fundersAZ · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundationshared fundersAZ · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$928k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% 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 CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: 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.
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 CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC?
- CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,799,573 to it, the largest being Valley of the Sun United Way ($3,543,342). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 94 organizations giving $12,799,573 in grants to CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC?
- Valley of the Sun United Way is the largest funder on record, with $3,543,342 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 94funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing