Arizona · Nonprofit
COWTOWN SKATE
COWTOWN SKATE (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $481,620 to it, the largest being MARY H STORER FOUNDATION ($350,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $223k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $482k
- Net assets
- $428k
What Cowtown Skate does
Mission
Cowtown s.k.a.t.e. Is dedicated to expanding access to physical, mental, and social health benefits of skateboarding. Through resource development and capacity building, our work provides goods, education, and support to youth in underserved communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We are committed to making skateboarding, and all of the physical, mental and social health benefits associated with it, accessible to everyone. Our strategy to achieve this goal consists of three areas of impact:1) providing free, high quality gear2) working with cities to make space for skateboarding in every neighborhood park3) facilitating community building through courses and special events(continued on schedule o)opening the door: in our effort to ensure that all children can benefit from skateboarding, our first focus is on providing skateboards to kids who otherwise may never have one of their own. Through programs like skateboard angel, boards for the barrio, and rides for the res, we have been able to give away thousands of skateboards. Skateboard angel was created to support partner nonprofits that offer children in underserved communities the opportunity to learn to skate. In 2025, this project provided new, high-quality complete skateboards to 1,778 kids in need.s.k.a.t.e. Spots: once kids have skateboards, it is important for them to have somewhere near their home to learn how to ride them. Having access to public skate amenities nourishes children's continued…
$142,339 spentof which $72,110 as grants$5,306 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $142,339.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $252k to $390k (+54%).
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.
98% of COWTOWN SKATE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Katherine Betsy
Executive director (as of aug 2025)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $45k → $141k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 COWTOWN SKATE’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
COWTOWN SKATE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 63% · 2023 59% — 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.
Where its funders are
COWTOWN SKATE draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
COWTOWN SKATE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COWTOWN SKATE
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 COWTOWN SKATE: 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 COWTOWN SKATE?
- COWTOWN SKATE (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $481,620 to it, the largest being MARY H STORER FOUNDATION ($350,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COWTOWN SKATE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $481,620 in grants to COWTOWN SKATE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COWTOWN SKATE?
- MARY H STORER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COWTOWN SKATE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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