Arizona · Nonprofit
SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES
SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES (Arizona) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,734 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($190,756). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $494k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Saguaros Childrens Charities does
Mission
The purpose of the foundation is to accept, manage and distribute money and property in a manner consistent with the objectives of the scottsdale saguaros inc., which is to better the lives of underprivileged children in arizona.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During fiscal year 2025, saguaros children's charities continued its long-standing mission of improving the lives of underprivileged children throughout arizona by distributing more than $816,000 to over 30 nonprofit organizations serving children and families across the state. Major grant recipients included southwest autism research & resource center (sarrc), banner health, and boys & girls club of greater scottsdale, among many others supporting healthcare, education, mentorship, crisis support, and youth development initiatives. The organization's impact is made possible through the efforts of an entirely volunteer-led board and membership base, whose fundraising events, community partnerships, and charitable initiatives help generate critical resources for arizona (continued on schedule o) children in need. With more than 50 active volunteers and decades of community involvement, the scottsdale saguaros continue to play a significant role in supporting organizations and programs that positively impact thousands of children and families annually throughout arizona.
$816,748 spentof which $816,748 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $816,748.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.9M to $2.1M (−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.
148% of SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $16k → $99k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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: $9k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Saguaros Childrens Charities). These are real filings, and they are not money SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES raised.
From the IRS filings of SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES’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
SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2019 48% · 2020 36% · 2021 60% · 2022 37% · 2023 62% — 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
17% of SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
82% of SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES'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 $87k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $406k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES's revenue grew 39% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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
- Scottsdale Saguaros · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES?
- SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES (Arizona) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,734 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($190,756). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $493,734 in grants to SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES?
- ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $190,756 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAGUAROS CHILDRENS CHARITIES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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