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Arizona · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA (Arizona) is funded by 79 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $3,674,548 in grants to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($650,343). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 737 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 737 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
96% of FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Grant income rose $67k → $69k on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
14 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 funders by total. Association, not causation.
FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 67% · 2019 23% · 2020 19% · 2021 14% · 2022 13% · 2023 31% · 2024 27% · 2025 89% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
39% of FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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.
FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 79 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
91% of spending goes to programs.
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Part of a family of 2 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 79funders 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. view filing