Arizona · Nonprofit
SACRED SORROWS INC
SACRED SORROWS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,100 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($33,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $123k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Sacred Sorrows Inc does
Mission
Sacred Sorrows is a connected community of grieving mothers and grandmothers, gathering together in person and online, to find peace and hope in the midst of our grief. We also provide helpful resources to the friends, family members, professional and clergy who support us.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Served thousands of women who visited our website for comforting articles and resources. A key online offering was an online Healing through Writing Workshop that enriched over 40 women.
$27,067 spent37% of program spendingIn-person weekend retreats in Los Altos and Phoenix continue to offer healing to new grieving mothers and the women who continue to stay as part of the growing network of women connected through Sacred Sorrows.
$41,122 spent55% of program spendingOur in-person events such as our Days of Remembrance in Phoenix and the Bay Area, and our Circle Gatherings, served over 100 women who are engaged in continuing support.
$5,950 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,139.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $26k to $34k (+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.
73% of SACRED SORROWS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Rita Morton
President, Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $18k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 SACRED SORROWS 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
SACRED SORROWS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 SACRED SORROWS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 89% · 2023 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
95% of SACRED SORROWS 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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k 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.
Against its field
SACRED SORROWS INC has grown faster than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SACRED SORROWS 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SACRED SORROWS 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 SACRED SORROWS INC?
- SACRED SORROWS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,100 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($33,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SACRED SORROWS INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $55,100 in grants to SACRED SORROWS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SACRED SORROWS INC?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $33,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SACRED SORROWS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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