Arizona · Nonprofit
DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC
DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC (Arizona) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,002,335 to it, the largest being ABORTION CARE NETWORK ($249,696). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $554k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $65k
What Desert Star Institute for Family Planning Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to create equitable access to reproductive and sexual health care while centering Black and Indigenous people of color.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Desert Star Institute for Family Planning acquired the Phoenix, AZ independent abortion clinic, Desert Star Family Planning, LLC. With the acquisition of the clinic, the organization took on direct clinical services as a community based health justice clinic providing outpatient women's health and wellness services, family planning services, including medical and surgical abortion, and gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary adults.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The Health Justice Clinic is the largest program/service. Funds raised for the acquisition provided infrastructure support to keep essential services available to the communities it had been serving for a decade.
$380,512 spentof which $135,000 as grants$190,965 earned by the program74% of program spendingNext Generation Abortion Providers Program trains medical students, residents, and attending physicians in reproductive health care with an emphasis on abortion training. Clinical instruction includes abortion, contraception, early pregnancy loss, other common women's health conditions, and care of transgender adults. To date, people from 21 states and 3 regions of Canada have traveled to Phoenix to be trained. We apply a reproductive justice lens to our work, so trainees have and experience very different from their traditional clinical rotations. We believe that learning about abortion in an environment where abortion occurs alongside general well-woman care increases student awareness and understanding that abortion is health care. In turn, they are inspired to advocate for women's reproductive healthcare access and delivery, and are empowered to become advocates within their own communities. 2 - 4 week rotations can be scheduled at the Desert Star Health Justice Clinic. We are a preferred site for the Medical Students for Choice Reproductive Health Externship Program and now have partnerships with several additional organizations as referral sources for training. 5 people were…
$56,928 spentof which $30,750 as grants$725 earned by the program11% of program spendingDoulas 4 Change continuing education program for Black Doulas completed it's inaugural training cohort in the spring of 2024. The program mission is to educate, organize, and build leadership and power among Black birthers, birthworkers and their communities to influence policies and practices that decrease Black maternal mortality and morbidity in Arizona and support pregnant people's self determination in whatever pregnancy outcome they choose. Our goal in creating a doula-promotora model is to strengthen the skills of these needed community health workers to advocate for the communities they serve. Six doulas completed the pilot program that began January 2024 and ended in May 2024. The data indicates that increased access to community-based doula care can help improve birth outcomes and reduce the higher rates of maternal morbidity and mortality among women of color in the United States, and more specifically Arizona. Empowering Black doulas with advocacy tools, peer support, policy education, and reproductive justice framework will prepare them to support families in a way they have not been trained for before. By understanding the intersectionality of what affects the lives…
$45,000 spentof which $45,000 as grants9% of program spendingOur remaining programs include: 1) Patient Assistance Program for low income, uninsured patients provided the long-term contraceptives Liletta IUD and Nexplanon Implant at our Desert Star Health Justice Clinic to 9 patients in 2024. 2) Community Education and Engagement Program provided 6 virtual education events, a community resource expo, convened 3 coalition spaces to advance reproductive health, rights, and justice in Arizona, and provided resources to community members at various partner sponsored events.
$32,434 spentof which $30,000 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $514,874.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $37k to $215k (+488%).
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.
69% of DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
DeShawn Taylor
President and CEO
Board chair
Stacey Stewart
Chairperson, Board of Directors
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $0 → $305k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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 STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
88% 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 STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 41% · 2023 36% — 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
57% of DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% 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
DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,769 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING 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 STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC?
- DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC (Arizona) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,002,335 to it, the largest being ABORTION CARE NETWORK ($249,696). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,002,335 in grants to DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC?
- ABORTION CARE NETWORK is the largest funder on record, with $249,696 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 16 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