Arizona · Nonprofit
FLINN FOUNDATION
FLINN FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,165,245 to it, the largest being THOMAS R BROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,144,635). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $261M
What Flinn Foundation does
Programs
Biosciencethe Flinn Foundation supports the advancement of the biosciences by working to build arizona as a global center for research and commercialization in the biosciences. This work is done through grantmaking and coordination of arizona's bioscience roadmap, which is a long-term strategic plan. The roadmap's goals include forming an entrepreneurial hub; turning research into practice, developing bio-talent, promoting arizona's convergence of research, health care and commercialization to canada and mexico, and enhancing the state's collaborative gene reputation.
$1,510,640 spentCivic leadershipthe Flinn Foundation supports and administers the arizona center for civic leadership (center), to enhance civic life in arizona through education, engagement, and leadership programs. A primary component of the center is the flinn-brown fellowship, which aims to develop future state-level leaders through non-partisan, objective seminars on policy issues. Civex is a monthly virtual public policy seminar series emphasizing learning and discussion.
$977,891 spentFlinn scholarsin partnership with arizona's three public universities, the Flinn Foundation awards approximately 20 scholarships to arizona's top high-school seniors for up to eight semesters of study at one of these three public universities. The flinn scholarship benefits include full cost of tuition and fees, housing, meals, and study abroad.
$1,060,512 spentArts and culturethe Flinn Foundation is dedicated to improving the financial and creative health of arizona's arts-and-culture organizations. The initiative for financial and creative health, which is primarily a grantmaking program, aims to help arizona's largest arts-and-culture organizations strengthen their programmatic core - the products, services, connections, experiments and approaches that allow an institution to achieve its goals and carry out its mission at the highest level. The foundation also partners with the arizona commission on the arts and smu dataarts to help arizonans participate and experience the arts, and collect and share data.
$230,392 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $285M to $235M (−18%).
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
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $176k → $293k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arizona Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FLINN FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of FLINN 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
FLINN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
98% 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 FLINN FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 96% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
FLINN FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FLINN FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,065 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,065 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like FLINN 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FLINN 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 FLINN FOUNDATION?
- FLINN FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,165,245 to it, the largest being THOMAS R BROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,144,635). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FLINN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,165,245 in grants to FLINN FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLINN FOUNDATION?
- THOMAS R BROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,144,635 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLINN 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing