Arizona · Nonprofit
SADD INC
SADD INC (Arizona) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,814,886 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($926,714). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $-223981
What Sadd Inc does
Mission
Sadd empowers and mobilizes students and adult allies to engage in positive change through leadership and smart decision-making.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Health and safetysadd addresses the leading causes of teen injuries and fatalities through nationally coordinated, peer-led prevention programming. Core focus areas include mobility safety (impaired driving, distraction, occupant protection, graduated driver licensing, and vulnerable road user safety), overlapping with subjects in substance misuse prevention, personal health and wellness, and mental health.in fy2025, sadd expanded evidence-informed, peer-to-peer strategies integrating mobility safety and mental health within a protective factor and strategic prevention frameworks. Programs are grounded in positive prevention approaches, data, and are culturally responsive, youth-driven, and community-based.resources include toolkits, leadership trainings, prevention campaigns, state grant programming, and technical assistance to chapters nationwide. Through partnerships with state highway safety offices, schools, and community organizations, sadd equips students with practical tools to prevent destructive decisions and promote safer school and community environments.
$2,022,659 spent$134,747 earned by the program95% of program spendingYouth leadership developmentas a youth-led organization, sadd provides structured, year-round leadership development opportunities for student members that build prevention capacity, civic engagement skills, and peer-to-peer leadership.national initiatives also include the student leadership council and the college emerging leaders council, which provide governance participation, prevention strategy development, peer mentorship, and national representation opportunities. Chapters receive ongoing technical assistance, advisor support, and campaign resources to sustain local prevention efforts.
$30,501 spentof which $17,350 as grants1% of program spendingNational conference and speaksthe sadd national conference/summit convenes students, advisors, and prevention partners for intensive leadership development and prevention education. Workshops and general sessions address impaired driving, distraction, substance misuse, mental health, and emerging youth risk behaviors. Participants engage in skill-building sessions, implementation labs, and peer networking to strengthen chapter-level impact and implementation quality.sadd speaks is a national student-led advocacy initiative that empowers youth to engage in public policy related to traffic safety, substance use prevention, and mental health. Participants receive training in civic engagement, policy analysis, and strategic communication. Students develop policy priorities and engage with federal, state, and local leaders to elevate youth perspectives in discussions on prevention and mobility safety.sadd also offers branded educational materials and program resources, with proceeds reinvested into student programming and chapter support.
$27,363 spent1% of program spendingOther programs
$43,959 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,124,482.
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 2023 to 2024, from $584k to $865k (+48%).
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: 2017 28% · 2018 41% · 2019 60% · 2020 55% · 2021 67% · 2022 56% · 2023 59% · 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Scott Myers
Executive director (as of jan 2024)
Board chair
Rich Levitan
Chair
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 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $139k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 SADD 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
SADD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 80%; 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 SADD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 76% · 2019 50% · 2020 45% · 2021 68% · 2022 81% · 2023 36% — 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
33% of SADD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
68% of SADD 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 $590k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 SADD 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SADD 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 SADD INC?
- SADD INC (Arizona) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,814,886 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($926,714). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SADD INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,814,886 in grants to SADD INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SADD INC?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $926,714 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SADD 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 16 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