Arizona · Nonprofit
CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC
CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,371,582 to it, the largest being Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ($3,056,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Childrens Action Alliance Inc does
Mission
Through research publications, media campaigns, and advocacy, CAA seeks to influence policies and decisions affecting the lives of Arizona children and their families on issues related to health, child abuse and neglect, early care and education, budget and taxes, children and immigration and working families. CAA works toward a future in which all children have health insurance, no child is raised in poverty and hunger, every child enters school ready to learn and succeed, no child endures the ravages of abuse and neglect, every child has a place to call home and struggling teens have the support they need to become responsible adults.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Childrens action alliance advocates for policies, programs, and resources that benefit children and families. Our work is about real arizonans children, parents, caregivers, and individuals who should be able to expect equitable access to high-quality health care, early learning and education, safety, and economic security that will improve their well-being and opporunity to thrive. We believe that every child and family matters. We lift up data, lived experience voices, and policy solutions to influence legislation, administrative actions, and tax policy and budget decisions that make arizona a stronger place for all children and families. Arizona children and families saw key wins in 2025 such as significant state general fund support for childcare assistance, school meals for elementary and high school students, critical k-12 education funding, and an increase in financial support for foster parents and kinship caregivers.
$1,889,424 spentof which $128,377 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,889,424.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.2M to $3.9M (+25%).
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: 2020 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
David Higuera
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $794k → $1.6M.
9 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
66% 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 CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 22% · 2019 22% · 2020 33% · 2021 35% · 2022 20% · 2023 14% — 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
42% of CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
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 CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC?
- CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,371,582 to it, the largest being Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ($3,056,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $14,371,582 in grants to CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC?
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is the largest funder on record, with $3,056,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 62 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing