Arizona · Nonprofit
PARTNERS IN ACTION INC
PARTNERS IN ACTION INC (Arizona) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,150,635 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($913,872). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $469k
What Partners in Action Inc does
Mission
Partners in action creates social impact by empowering, supporting, and serving sustainable humanitarian projects and charitable organizations and activities that primarily focus on improving the lives of individuals in underserved communities around the world, while sharing the gospel of jesus christ with those we come into contact with.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
International orphanages/child sponsorship/human services: funds granted from pia to international entities with whom we have strategic programmatic relationships. Includes full-time orphan care in orphanages, the sponsorship of children in poverty to receive education, and other human services, including health services, education, poverty alleviation, family strengthening, and spiritual enrichments.
$269,914 spentof which $193,763 as grants29% of program spendingDomestic child sponsorship/human services: funds granted from pia to affiliates to support gospel outreach, water safety, chaplaincy training & services, youth leadership training, the care of orphaned and vulnerable children, families living in poverty, those imprisoned, addicted, and unhoused, locally, across the usa, and with programs internationally. Services provided range from medical care, hygiene training, education, evangelism, discipleship and counseling.
$662,376 spentof which $535,455 as grants70% of program spendingCompassionate back office services: administrative services provided to pia affiliates to ensure strategic alignment and compliance.
$8,461 spent$120,072 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $940,751.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.5M to $1.0M (−28%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of PARTNERS IN ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Joshua Ward
Executive director
Board chair
Grant Sardachuk
Board chairman/treasurer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $254k → $151k.
12 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 PARTNERS IN ACTION 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
PARTNERS IN ACTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 PARTNERS IN ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 22% · 2019 55% · 2020 83% · 2021 38% · 2022 29% · 2023 40% — 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.
How long its funders stay
35% of PARTNERS IN ACTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
80% of PARTNERS IN ACTION 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 $420k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
PARTNERS IN ACTION INC's revenue fell 58% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PARTNERS IN ACTION 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Pia Affiliates LLC · disregarded
- Sawubona Group Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARTNERS IN ACTION INC: 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 PARTNERS IN ACTION INC?
- PARTNERS IN ACTION INC (Arizona) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,150,635 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($913,872). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PARTNERS IN ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,150,635 in grants to PARTNERS IN ACTION INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARTNERS IN ACTION INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $913,872 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARTNERS IN ACTION 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.
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 27 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