Arizona · Nonprofit
FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA
FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,131,300 to it, the largest being The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation ($5,352,500). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona does
Mission
Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona (free arts) is a nonprofit organization that transforms children's trauma to resilience through the arts. Since 1993, free arts has served more than 155,400 children in maricopa county in arizona. Free arts has 28 staff members and over 200 volunteer mentors serving over 7,000 children each year. Free arts partners with forty-three social service agencies at more than 110 locations and 25 arts and culture organizations throughout maricopa county to provide a unique combination of arts, trauma-informed curriculum and mentoring to children who are in out-of-home care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In the professional artist series program (pas), professional teaching artists lead the children through focused art-making sessions designed to develop skills and self-efficacy. Art forms include painting, drawing, cooking, dancing, drumming, and beat making. At the end of each series, children celebrate their accomplishments and share their skills and talents with their peers at a culminating event.
$54,025 spent3% of program spendingDuring free arts days (fad), children in partner social service agencies practice self-expression with the support of volunteer mentors during these one-day programs hosted in partnership with local arts and culture organizations.
$45,854 spent3% of program spendingThe weekly mentor program (wmp) matches adult volunteer mentors with groups of children living in social service agencies and provides weekly art sessions for up to 16 weeks. Mentors use trauma-informed techniques to build relationships with their group, helping children to build trusting relationships and express themselves creatively.
$33,680 spent2% of program spendingThe free arts family population (formerly referred to as a program) focuses on families who have experienced trauma through situations such as family violence, separation, or homelessness. Free arts aims to encourage harmony and resilience within the family unit by empowering parents and caregivers through education on trauma informed care and engaging children in artistic opportunities for self-discovery during their family transitions. Program events are designed for the whole family including foster, kinship, and adoptive families and cater to people of all ages. With their participation, free arts hopes to foster a safe and stable environment that allows family members- both parent/caregiver and child- to discover and develop their unique strengths and use them to connect with one another to create a strong and secure home environment. (the change of references from program to population reflects that this group engages in the same program activities as our other populations; namely, free arts days, professional artist series, etc.) the resilient roots population (formerly referred to as a program) is specifically designed to serve unaccompanied refugee minors in communities…
$1,466,415 spent92% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,599,974.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.9M to $5.8M (+49%).
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 9% · 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 7% · 2022 11% · 2023 9% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 33 funders, grant income fell $2.5M → $967k.
16 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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
FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 80% · 2019 75% · 2020 44% · 2021 24% · 2022 33% · 2023 16% — 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
37% of FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
94% of FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF 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. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA is better cushioned than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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
- Free Arts Building Hope LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA?
- FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,131,300 to it, the largest being The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation ($5,352,500). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $11,131,300 in grants to FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA?
- The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,352,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF 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 80 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