Arizona · Nonprofit
COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA
COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $969,182 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($450,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $530k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $969k
- Net assets
- $312k
What Council on American Islamic Relations of Arizona does
Mission
Cair-arizona is a civil rights and advocacy organization for muslim-americans. Logo:to protect civil rights and liberties, encourage dialogue and understanding of islam and to empower american muslims by building coalitions to promote justice and mutual understanding.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Cair-az was able to achieve many things during this fiscal year: - hold community events that reached thousands of our community members, which helped enhance their understanding of a variety of subjects. A few of these trainings included: know your rights, as well as bystander intervention trainings. Additionally, we were able to hold effective talks at arizona state university and city of scottsdale training both students and employees about contemporary issues facing the muslim community. Cair-az also reached millions of people through our hate hurts initiative, which helps educate the public about an increase in hate crimes.
$226,045 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $226,045.
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 $202k to $312k (+55%).
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.
100% of COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Dr Yasir Shareef
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $21k → $126k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA’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
COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 46% · 2021 33% · 2022 87% · 2023 48% — 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
44% of COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
78% of COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $209k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $761k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA
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
85% 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 COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA?
- COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $969,182 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($450,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $969,182 in grants to COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA 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 15 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