Arizona · Nonprofit
FIESTA EVENTS INC
FIESTA EVENTS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,104,098 to it, the largest being PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ($750,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $-40375531
What Fiesta Events Inc does
Mission
Fiesta events, inc. Is committed to fostering a culture of community outreach and service. The organization hosts events and community activities throughout the year as an outlet for volunteer participation, economic growthand continued support of arizona charitable organizations in their efforts to reach out and serve others.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fiesta events, inc.'s mission is to be a world-class community organization dedicated to providing premier local events that serve as economic drivers for arizona and provide charitable resources for our community. Our vision is to be arizona's leading organization in creating unforgettable experiences through world-class events, unparalleled hospitality and life-changing community impact, focused on pillars of youth, sports and education. Fiesta events, inc., hosts numerous events throughout the year, including a year-round wishes for teachers program, a football kickoff event that draws approximately 1,200 attendees, a par 3 challenge over the course of 3 days, an automated external defibrillator (aed) training and distribution program, a weekly televised fiesta bowl high school football showdown, sponsorship of arizona interscholastic association (aia) high school football championships, a girls high school flag football tournament, youth football clinics, donations of football fields, playgrounds and resource rooms to schools and parks in need, activation of kindness arizona week, a televised parade, all the while serving over 600,000 youth through its charitable efforts.as a…
$4,781,790 spentof which $2,294,414 as grants$1,795,749 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,781,790.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $593k (−54%).
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.
35% of FIESTA EVENTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 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.
Chief executive
Erik Moses
Executive director/CEO
Board chair
Randy Norton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $100k → $344k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 FIESTA EVENTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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
FIESTA EVENTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
87% 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 FIESTA EVENTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 59% · 2021 56% · 2022 37% · 2023 56% — 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
80% of FIESTA EVENTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
59% of FIESTA EVENTS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M 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
FIESTA EVENTS INC's revenue grew 69% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FIESTA EVENTS 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Fiesta Sports Foundation · exempt
- Arizona College Football Championship Foundation · exempt
- Valley of the Sun Bowl Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIESTA EVENTS 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 FIESTA EVENTS INC?
- FIESTA EVENTS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,104,098 to it, the largest being PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ($750,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIESTA EVENTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $3,104,098 in grants to FIESTA EVENTS INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIESTA EVENTS INC?
- PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIESTA EVENTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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