Arizona · Nonprofit
SAHARA PROGRAMS
SAHARA PROGRAMS (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,802 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($11,302). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $301k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $117k
What Sahara Programs does
Mission
Empowering underserved individuals, families, and communities through comprehensive and compassionate services that prioritize their well-being, safety, and personal growth. Currently, these services encompass free healthcare, life skills training and coaching, educational support for individuals facing english language barriers, and a dedicated domestic violence center to support abuse survivors in rebuilding their self-esteem with dignity and self-determination".
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Safe Haven Program During Fiscal Year 2025, Sahara Programs Safe Haven Program provided emergency shelter and comprehensive support to 164 survivors of domestic violence, including 103 adults and 61 children. The program provided 5,760 nights of emergency shelter, served 8,640 meals, developed 39 individualized safety plans, and delivered 1,053 case management sessions. As a result, 38 participants secured permanent housing, 207 obtained employment or job support, 6 accessed educational opportunities, and 27 were connected to long-term support services, helping survivors achieve greater safety, stability, and independence.
$330,162 spent41% of program spendingFamily Empowerment Program During Fiscal Year 2025, Sahara Programs Family Empowerment Program helped approximately 13,800 households through financial assistance, housing stabilization, and family support services. The program assisted 98 households with housing stabilization, supported 87 individuals in obtaining employment or workforce training, and conducted 2 educational and life-skills workshops to promote long-term financial stability and self-sufficiency.
$238,155 spent30% of program spendingFree Medical, Dental & Mobile Clinic Program During Fiscal Year 2025, Sahara Programs Free Medical, Dental & Mobile Clinic Program expanded access to healthcare by serving approximately 210 patients, providing 320 dental visits, conducting 2,385 preventive health screenings, assisting 54 individuals with AHCCCS enrollment, making 32 healthcare referrals, hosting 21 community health fairs, and reaching approximately 4,300 community members through health education and outreach.
$189,324 spent24% of program spendingCommunity Education & Volunteer Engagement During Fiscal Year 2025, 136 volunteers contributed approximately 680 hours of service, supporting Sahara Programs charitable mission across its various programs. The organization also conducted 132 educational workshops, classes, and community presentations, reaching approximately 396 participants with education on domestic violence prevention, health awareness, financial empowerment, and available community resources.
$41,975 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $799,616.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $4k to $447k (+11427%).
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.
100% of SAHARA PROGRAMS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 SAHARA PROGRAMS’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
SAHARA PROGRAMS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 SAHARA PROGRAMS.
“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
93% of SAHARA PROGRAMS'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SAHARA PROGRAMS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SAHARA PROGRAMS
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAHARA PROGRAMS: 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 SAHARA PROGRAMS?
- SAHARA PROGRAMS (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,802 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($11,302). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAHARA PROGRAMS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $22,802 in grants to SAHARA PROGRAMS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAHARA PROGRAMS?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,302 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAHARA PROGRAMS 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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