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DESERT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION

DESERT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being FIESTA EVENTS INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$529M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$686M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Desert Financial Credit Union does

Mission

At desert financial, relationships drive success. We share our financial success because we believe it's the right thing to do for our members, our community and our team.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Income from the credit union membership and from the investment of members' funds provide the foundation from which the organization can function and provide services to its restricted membership.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($218M) Expenses 100 ($187M) Net assets 100 ($760M)2021 Revenue 153 ($333M) Expenses 131 ($246M) Net assets 102 ($772M)2022 Revenue 173 ($377M) Expenses 155 ($291M) Net assets 62 ($469M)2023 Revenue 208 ($454M) Expenses 197 ($369M) Net assets 80 ($610M)2024 Revenue 243 ($529M) Expenses 244 ($457M) Net assets 90 ($686M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (243)Expenses (244)Net assets (90)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $6.6B to $8.2B (+24%).

$6.6B
$8.2B
$8.2B
$8.7B
$8.8B
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$31M
’20
$87M
’21
$86M
’22
$85M
’23
$72M
’24
12
months of
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

Kevin Haskew

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed2020202021
Joined·+0+3+2+4
No longer listed·0323
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
Fiesta Events Incunclassified
$8k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of DESERT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of DESERT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

AZ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like DESERT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION

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

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • Desert Financial Holdings LLC · disregarded
  • Desert Financial Wealth Services LLC · disregarded
  • Southwest Commercial Property · disregarded
  • Switchthink Solutions LLC · disregarded
  • Define Mortgage Solutions LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds DESERT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION?
DESERT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being FIESTA EVENTS INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DESERT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to DESERT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION.
Who is the largest funder of DESERT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION?
FIESTA EVENTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DESERT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 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