Arizona · Nonprofit
DESPERADOS
DESPERADOS (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,540 to it, the largest being HARRINGTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($76,540). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $148k
- Net assets
- $286k
What Desperados does
Mission
Educational and Conservation Efforts to Inform and Inspire People and Organizations to Protect and Preserve and Participate in Trails and other Outdoor Activities on Desert Mountain and in the Sonoran Desert Foothills. Desperados will pursue and establish relationships and partnerships with likeminded regional charitable conservation organizations that want to help conserve, protect, and enjoy the Sonoran Desert foothills culture, outdoor trails, other outdoor features and resources, and enjoy the experience of the foothills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Carefree Park is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with the mission of acquiring, preserving and making accessible to the community the last remaining 48 acres of Sonoran Desert in Carefree.
$0 spentof which $10,000 as grantsSonoran Arts League is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit arts organization that offers high-quality art making and educational programs for a broad spectrum of constituents.
$0 spentof which $10,000 as grants
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $247k to $286k (+15%).
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.
93% of DESPERADOS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $77k → $5k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 DESPERADOS’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
DESPERADOS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
38% 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 DESPERADOS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
83% of DESPERADOS's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DESPERADOS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like DESPERADOS
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DESPERADOS: 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 DESPERADOS?
- DESPERADOS (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,540 to it, the largest being HARRINGTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($76,540). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DESPERADOS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $147,540 in grants to DESPERADOS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESPERADOS?
- HARRINGTON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $76,540 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESPERADOS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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