Arizona · Nonprofit
RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT
RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT (Arizona) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,805,856 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,055,200). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Center for Community Changeshared funders
- University of Arizona Foundationportfolio match
- Thomas R Brown Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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: 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $70k → $1.8M.
14 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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: $100k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rural Arizona Action). These are real filings, and they are not money RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT raised.
From the IRS filings of RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. 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
RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
83% 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 RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 28% · 2021 24% · 2022 20% · 2023 14% — 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
36% of RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 49 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Center for Community Changeshared fundersDC · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
- University of Arizona Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas R Brown Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William Edwin Hall Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mercy Careportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elizabeth Read Taylor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizonaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Foundation for Community and Health Advancementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- APS Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phoenix Pride Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Margaret E Mooney Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Drug Policy Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
0%
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
- Rural Arizona Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT?
- RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT (Arizona) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,805,856 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,055,200). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $10,805,856 in grants to RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,055,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 49funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing