Arizona · Nonprofit
HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED
HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $423,666 to it, the largest being VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ($230,215). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $424k
- Net assets
- $595k
What Helping Families in Need does
Mission
To make a lasting change in the lives of arizonas children and their families by securing affordable health care and other resources for those most in need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2023 the organization focused on homlessness and providing basic utility assistance in addition to its other services. The organization also traveled to underserved communities in az to make assessments on the needs in those areas.
$1,050,192 spentof which $28,054 as grants$378,063 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,050,192.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $595k (−50%).
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 13% · 2018 20% · 2019 9% · 2020 14% · 2021 4% · 2022 14% · 2023 57% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $63k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED’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
HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2020 67% · 2021 62% · 2022 84% · 2023 79% — 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.
Where its funders are
95% of HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED is better cushioned than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED: 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 HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED?
- HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $423,666 to it, the largest being VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ($230,215). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $423,666 in grants to HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED?
- VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $230,215 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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