Arizona · Nonprofit
HUMANE BORDERS INC
HUMANE BORDERS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $705,831 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($307,130). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $474k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $706k
- Net assets
- $464k
What Humane Borders Inc does
Mission
The main purpose of our organization is to provide humanitarian assistance to persons in need in the desert borderlands of the u.s. And mexico, and to work towards a more just environment in the borderlands.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Service water stations: we assist migrants in distress with food, water, first aid, and if necessary arrange with the border patrol for rescue and, or transportation of migrants. In 2023 we serviced approximately 30 water stations in the southern arizona desert, on land managed by federal, county, and city governments who has given us permission. Our two part-time staff coordinate the work of 17 regular volunteer drivers of our water trucks, and we had many other volunteers from all over the country, and a few from other countries. Volunteers have put out more than 18,000 gallons of water every year, and have put more than 4,000 hours serving the water stations each year, picking up trash left by migrants, educating the public, helping families looking for loved ones perhaps lost in the desert, and helping out at shelters on the us mexican border. We also report if we find human remains in the desert and keep a nationally known map that monthly updates the number and location of known deaths in the arizona desert.
$190,385 spent55% of program spendingVehicles fleet: we maintain a fleet of water trucks and auxiliary vehicles. The water trucks have off-road water hauling and dispensing capabilities that include desert rescue and satellite communication equipment. In 2024 we were out in the desert 3 to 5 times a week and drove approximately more than 15,000 miles.
$26,339 spent8% of program spendingOutreach, migrants food and medical assistance, and education: we constantly establish and maintain contributor, public, and media contracts. We publish a newsletter, it is distributed by mail and posted on our website. We kept updating our warning posters that warn migrants of the dangers of crossing in the desert. In partnership with the pima county medical examiner, we continue to post on opengis our maps of where deaths are occuring in our area. We respond to those looking for loved ones using our well established (24 years) connections with various u.s. And mexican public and private organizations. We continue to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants, especially in arizona, who need water, food, clothes, or medical care.
$51,104 spent15% of program spendingRecord vehicle depreciation expenses for the organization's stated goals.
$81,247 spent23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $349,075.
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 2023 to 2024, from $331k to $473k (+43%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 11% · 2023 14% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of HUMANE BORDERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Laurie Cantillo
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $12k → $82k.
9 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 HUMANE BORDERS INC’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
HUMANE BORDERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 HUMANE BORDERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 78% · 2019 67% · 2020 48% · 2021 67% · 2022 59% · 2023 30% — 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
40% of HUMANE BORDERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% 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
64% of HUMANE BORDERS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $255k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $451k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HUMANE BORDERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HUMANE BORDERS INC
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUMANE BORDERS INC?
- HUMANE BORDERS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $705,831 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($307,130). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HUMANE BORDERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $705,831 in grants to HUMANE BORDERS INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMANE BORDERS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $307,130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMANE BORDERS INC 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 2020–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing