Arizona · Nonprofit
RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC (Arizona) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,956,277 to it, the largest being THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($937,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Rancho Feliz Charitable Foundation Inc does
Mission
A volunteer-based, binational organization committed to serving the community of agua prieta, sonora, mexico through access to education through public and private scholarships, affordable housing and volunteer opportunities such as food distributions and home building, to keep communities on both sides of the border connected.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education for over 36 years, rancho feliz has been committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by offering preschool through college scholarships to low-income families. Scholarships are funded by donations and provide students with high-quality bi-lingual education at private and public local schools. Scholarships include registration, tuition, books and other academic materials, psychological assistance and student activities. Once a student graduates from high school, depending on their career choice, they have the opportunity to attend a local technical collage or a public university in mexico. Scholarships are reviewed on an annual basis and students and families are expected to comply with scholarship expectations and guidelines.
$828,328 spentof which $685,025 as grants45% of program spendingVolunteer program rancho feliz brings people together to transcend cultural boundaries through education and service work on the arizona / mexico border. We provide purposeful experiences that improve the lives of volunteers while at the same time helping those who were not born into our same fortunate circumstances. Our volunteer guest house, la hacienda feliz, offers accommodations for up to 60 volunteers, providing them with a culturally rich and immersive mexican experience. Volunteers participate in building homes, food distributions, and interactive visits to dog shelters, an orphanage and migrant shelter. Stays offer transportation and guided tours.
$1,023,458 spentof which $514,631 as grants$129,509 earned by the program55% of program spendingVecinos in 1999, rancho feliz constructed a 3 acre affordable housing community called "vecinos dignos sin fronteras" (worthy neighbors without borders). This visionary neighborhood has 42 homes and houses approximately 150 people. Vecinos was developed to provide families in agua prieta, mexico an affordable and safe place to live. The neighborhood includes an onsite childcare facility, education center, playgrounds and sports court. All residents complete volunteer hours and help support the community and beyond through various initiatives.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,851,786.
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 2023 to 2024, from $497k to $1.3M (+170%).
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.
94% of RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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
Donna Valdes
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $215k → $195k.
13 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rancho Feliz Supporting Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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
RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
69% 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 RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 83% · 2019 56% · 2020 39% · 2021 72% · 2022 28% · 2023 42% — 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
47% of RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
77% of RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Rancho Feliz Supporting Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC?
- RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC (Arizona) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,956,277 to it, the largest being THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($937,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,956,277 in grants to RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC?
- THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $937,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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