Arizona · Nonprofit
NABI FOUNDATION
NABI FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,271 to it, the largest being PHOENIX SUNS CHARITIES INC ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $984k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $204k
- Net assets
- $0
What Nabi Foundation does
Mission
Create, encourage and support native american youth now and through their journeys as they discover who they are, what they want to be and how they can impact future generations.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
In 2022 the Nabi Foundation served 1300 native youth representing over 150 tribal nations. During this year the organization held more than 500 basketball games, organized a college and career fair which was attended by more than 1300 native american youths, organized a youth educational summit where 4 speakers made 8 presentations, and partnered with the jr. Suns and jr. Mercury to host 3 jr. Basketball camps which were attended by more than 100 6th-8th graders.
$524,105 spent$144,044 earned by the program50% of program spendingThe organization held its annual basketball tournament where the semi-final and championship games were aired on espn, the first time an all-native event was broadcast on an espn platform. This event made global news which assisted with pushing the social media reach of nabi to over 3.3 million people.
$316,588 spent$224,451 earned by the program30% of program spendingNabi Foundation college scholarship fund awarded two 10,000 scholarships to two nabi alumni and allocated two 10,000 scholarships for 2023 after the close of the organization. The foundation also partnered with gyms to raise over 100k for native youth basketball and youth programs. Finally, nabi was honored in a orginativ phoenix suns game for our work in the native american community through the sport of basketball.
$206,069 spentof which $206,069 as grants20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,046,762.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $450k to $0 (−100%).
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 46% · 2019 39% · 2020 15% · 2021 6% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Gina Marie Scarpa
President CEO
Board chair
Ernie Stevens Jr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $56k → $31.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NABI FOUNDATION’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
NABI FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 NABI FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 78% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 NABI FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like NABI FOUNDATION
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 NABI FOUNDATION: 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 NABI FOUNDATION?
- NABI FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,271 to it, the largest being PHOENIX SUNS CHARITIES INC ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NABI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $204,271 in grants to NABI FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NABI FOUNDATION?
- PHOENIX SUNS CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NABI FOUNDATION 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), 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