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DESERT MISSION INC

DESERT MISSION INC (Arizona) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,929,286 to it, the largest being Valley of the Sun United Way ($752,514). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$12M
Revenue FY2024
37
Funders on record
$2.9M
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
20/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

DESERT MISSION INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,286 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2018 Revenue 102 ($13M) Expenses 111 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2019 Revenue 96 ($12M) Expenses 112 ($13M) Net assets 95 ($12M)2020 Revenue 81 ($10M) Expenses 95 ($11M) Net assets 89 ($11M)2021 Revenue 69 ($8.5M) Expenses 83 ($9.6M) Net assets 81 ($10M)2022 Revenue 76 ($9.4M) Expenses 91 ($10M) Net assets 69 ($8.8M)2023 Revenue 85 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 63 ($8.0M)2024 Revenue 95 ($12M) Expenses 111 ($13M) Net assets 16 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (95)Expenses (111)Net assets (16)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 6% · 2022 3% · 2023 14% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

82% of DESERT MISSION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,397 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$909k
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$87k
18
$996k
19
$912k
20
$1.0M
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$999k
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$997k
23
$920k
24
0.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $211k → $281k.

9 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)17% 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: $12M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest HonorHealth Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DESERT MISSION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of DESERT MISSION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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

DESERT MISSION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

78% 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 DESERT MISSION INC.

26%
largest funder
46%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 73% · 2019 58% · 2020 28% · 2021 31% · 2022 34% · 2023 68%growing more concentrated.

“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

21% of DESERT MISSION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

59% of DESERT MISSION INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $492k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 37 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 DESERT MISSION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $807k on record.

Federal$807k
grants $521kcontracts $287k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$521k
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$287k

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 DESERT MISSION 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
92%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 9 related entities

  • Honorhealth · exempt
  • Honorhealth Ambulatory · exempt
  • Honorhealth Foundation · exempt
  • Honorhealth Research & Innovation Institute (Thru 52024) · exempt
  • Intuitive Health of Maricopa County LLC · partnership

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DESERT MISSION 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 DESERT MISSION INC?
DESERT MISSION INC (Arizona) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,929,286 to it, the largest being Valley of the Sun United Way ($752,514). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DESERT MISSION INC have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,929,286 in grants to DESERT MISSION INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DESERT MISSION INC?
Valley of the Sun United Way is the largest funder on record, with $752,514 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DESERT MISSION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 37funders 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