Arizona · Nonprofit
Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio
Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $182 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($182). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $182
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio does
Mission
education grades 5-12
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The school serves approximately 266 students in the fifth through twelfh grades. The school provides a higher academic curriculm in an alternative learning environment, addressing the needs of each student while they achieve their maximum academic potential.
$2,553,838 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,553,838.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.1M to $5.0M (+21%).
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 92% · 2019 93% · 2021 96% · 2022 95% · 2023 93% · 2024 91% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $67 → $31.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $182 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
Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $299k on record.
- Department of Education$299k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio: 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 Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio?
- Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $182 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($182). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $182 in grants to Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $182 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundatio 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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