Arizona · Nonprofit
FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES INC
FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,487 to it, the largest being EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES ($76,824). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $202k
- Net assets
- $454k
What Firm Foundation Youth Homes Inc does
Mission
We are a community of family-centered homes for arizona's foster children where the staff and the model of care work to repair the negative effects of a child's past (continued on schedule o)and where the community at large is given the opportunities to infuse their strengths and blessings into the less fortunate.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The staff and the model of care work to repair the negative effects of a child's past, where the community at large is given the opportunities to infuse their strengths and blessings into the less fortunate. Our vision is to see children that have been abused, abandoned, and neglected raised in an environment where they are shown honor, respect, grace, and truth. Our goal is to end the cycle of trauma in their lives by giving these children a foundation of trust in their hearts that they can use to create healthy relationships. Our approach is by doing this one child at a time.
$1,089,709 spentof which $10,112 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,089,709.
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 2021 to 2022, from $630k to $1.2M (+97%).
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 76% · 2018 68% · 2019 67% · 2020 59% · 2021 71% · 2022 41% · 2023 30% · 2024 38% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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.
Chief executive
Phoebe Johnson
Executive director
Board chair
Shane Stephens
Chairman/ president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $52k → $17k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES INC’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
FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 42% · 2023 99% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES INC's funders are still giving 3 years 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
100% of FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES INC has grown faster than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Scottsdale Bible Church · exempt
- Stewardship Endowment Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES 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 FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES INC?
- FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,487 to it, the largest being EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES ($76,824). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $202,487 in grants to FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES INC?
- EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES is the largest funder on record, with $76,824 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRM FOUNDATION YOUTH HOMES 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 8 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