Arizona · Nonprofit
FOSTER ARIZONA
FOSTER ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $773,072 to it, the largest being Garcia Family Foundation ($170,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $688k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $773k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Foster Arizona does
Mission
Educate, empower and engage at-risk youth, families and the community to offer hope through connections.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Foster Arizona housing program provides young adults 18-24 who are transitioning out of foster care or deemed at-risk of homelessness a safe place to live while offering resources and support. Participants in the program set financial, vocational, educational, personal, and housing goals that they work on while involved in the program.
$445,305 spent$87,769 earned by the program66% of program spendingFoster cooperative is a unique digital community for adult champions of children facing adversity to find resources and support. Resources include: peer-to-peer support, community events, quality resources, and on-demand training.
$108,856 spent16% of program spendingFoster Arizona kid initiatives program serves kids 3-17 that are currently in foster care or have been kept out of or left the dcs system due to reunification, adoption, or guardianship. Kid initiatives creates opportunities to build connection and resilience through engaging the community in meeting the needs of both the kids and their family units. Impact points range from events that include but are not limited to family events, kids only events, first night essential needs requests, and dcs placement need fulfillments.
$105,491 spent16% of program spendingEducation initiatives - Foster Arizona is committed to sharing the honest stories of families, individuals, field experts, and youth involved in the foster care and at-risk spaces. We do that through our real stories and education videos, bi-annual foster cooperative training events, and our podcast: fostering voices.
$14,799 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $674,451.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $705k to $1.4M (+93%).
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: 2018 0% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of FOSTER ARIZONA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Kim J Vehon
CEO and founder
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 16 funders, grant income rose $452 → $293k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 FOSTER ARIZONA’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
FOSTER ARIZONA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
49% 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 FOSTER ARIZONA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 33% · 2021 64% · 2022 36% · 2023 58% — 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
75% of FOSTER ARIZONA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
58% of FOSTER ARIZONA's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FOSTER ARIZONA's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,705 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FOSTER ARIZONA
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
91% 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 1 related entity
- Foster Arizona Housing Project · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOSTER ARIZONA: 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 FOSTER ARIZONA?
- FOSTER ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $773,072 to it, the largest being Garcia Family Foundation ($170,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOSTER ARIZONA have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $773,072 in grants to FOSTER ARIZONA, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOSTER ARIZONA?
- Garcia Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOSTER ARIZONA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 29 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