Arizona · Nonprofit
Empire Ranch Foundation
Empire Ranch Foundation (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,592 to it, the largest being TRIFAM FOUNDATION ($2,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $109k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $251k
What Empire Ranch Foundation does
Mission
The primary purpose of the Foundation is the historic preservation of the Empire Ranch, both buildings and improvements, educating the public on the Western heritage of the area and developing an appreciation of the ranch for rural and urban volunteers and visitors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Cowboy Festival (previously called Round Up) is held in the Fall. The event brings in visitors and volunteers from all walks of life. The day has many exhibits and arena events which highlight ranch life. Local authors are given a venue to promote books which showcase the Western Ranching heritage of the South West. Other events, Tours of the Ranch, Western Movie showings and the Ranch Spring Trail Ride also educate the public as to our Western Heritage.This year the event was held over 2 days.
$71,278 spent$108,687 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $71,278.
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.
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 $144k to $196k (+37%).
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 6% · 2018 49% · 2019 8% · 2020 19% · 2021 21% · 2022 11% · 2023 12% · 2024 16% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of Empire Ranch Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $793 → $598.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Empire Ranch Foundation’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
Empire Ranch Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 63% · 2021 85% · 2022 82% · 2023 84% — 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.
Where its funders are
Empire Ranch Foundation draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $342 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Empire Ranch Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Empire Ranch Foundation
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 Empire Ranch Foundation: 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 Empire Ranch Foundation?
- Empire Ranch Foundation (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,592 to it, the largest being TRIFAM FOUNDATION ($2,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Empire Ranch Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,592 in grants to Empire Ranch Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Empire Ranch Foundation?
- TRIFAM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Empire Ranch Foundation 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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