Arizona · Nonprofit
LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS
LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $521,921 to it, the largest being Art State Arizona ($154,198). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $522k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Local First for Business does
Mission
Promote Arizona Economy/ Local Business
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Continued showcasing our more than 3000 members online, making it easier for local businesses to be found across arizona. Hosted over 50 webinars, in both english and spanish, to help small businesses navigate the challenges of the pandemic and access resources. Reintroduced in person experiences by providing 15 member events across arizona bringing together local businesses to network and build relationships. Hosted several campaigns, including national independents week that encouraged arizonans to support local businesses in a variety of ways. Brought together more than 450,000 people through social media to celebrate arizona.
$497,433 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $497,433.
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 2022 to 2023, from $237k to $94k (−60%).
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: 2019 7% · 2020 3% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Kimber Lanning
Founder and CEO
Board chair
James Christensen
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $95k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS’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
LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 54% · 2021 52% · 2022 51% · 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
57% of LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,376 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS: 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 LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS?
- LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $521,921 to it, the largest being Art State Arizona ($154,198). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $521,921 in grants to LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS?
- Art State Arizona is the largest funder on record, with $154,198 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS 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.
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 7 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