Arizona · Nonprofit
EAST MESA CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
EAST MESA CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being United Food Bank ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
EAST MESA CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's revenue grew 44% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Mesa United Way Incshared funderslocal
- Wonderful Foundationsportfolio match
- Arizona Food Bank Networkshared funders
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 12% · 2019 11% · 2020 12% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 18% · 2024 23% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of EAST MESA CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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 2 funders put you under-funded among the 366 organizations that share them.
- Mesa United Way Incshared funderslocalAZ · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · funds 46 organizations near you
- Wonderful Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Food Bank Networkshared fundersAZ · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- Mesa Ho Ho Kam Foundation Incshared fundersAZ · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
- Building Hope Impact Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Tuition Connection Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Charter Schools Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Action for Healthy Kidsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- GenYOUTH Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toshiba America Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Musical Instrument Museumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Leadership Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like EAST MESA CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 20 related entities
- Bell Canyon Charter School Inc · exempt
- Cortez Park Charter Middle School · exempt
- Imagine Avondale Elementary Inc · exempt
- Imagine Avondale Middle Inc · exempt
- Imagine Camelback Middle Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EAST MESA CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds EAST MESA CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
- EAST MESA CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being United Food Bank ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAST MESA CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $0 in grants to EAST MESA CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST MESA CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
- United Food Bank is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST MESA CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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