Arizona · Nonprofit
SANTA CRUZ VALLEY HERITAGE ALLIANCE INC
SANTA CRUZ VALLEY HERITAGE ALLIANCE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA ($21,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $211k
What Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance Inc does
Mission
The Organization is the local coordinating entity of the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area and serves to connect people to the cultural and historic foundations and the living landscapes of the Santa Cruz Valley and actively works towards its long-term stewardship.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Awarded funding to 14 non-profit organizations whose projects support our mission and satisfy our Management Plan Activities.
$587,531 spentof which $174,099 as grants62% of program spendingShared our mission to 4,000 people at 57 gatherings; installed 4 new interpretive outdoor signs highlighting the areas heritage and nearby experiences; hosted 140 high school students on full-day trips to national park; completed 3 heritage murals; added 4 new Passport to Your National Park stamp collection stations; produced 30-minute episode about the SCVNHA for Discovery Road educational television program.
$227,431 spent24% of program spendingStewardship Program: Leveraged 989 community voluteers for nearly 5,000 hours of service; partnered with organizations to remove nearly 30 tons of trash, debris from the Santa Cruz River.
$132,669 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $947,631.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $77k to $215k (+180%).
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: 2022 86% · 2023 50% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Lesley Kontowicz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SANTA CRUZ VALLEY HERITAGE ALLIANCE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SANTA CRUZ VALLEY HERITAGE ALLIANCE 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding SANTA CRUZ VALLEY HERITAGE ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of the Interior$2.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SANTA CRUZ VALLEY HERITAGE ALLIANCE 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA CRUZ VALLEY HERITAGE ALLIANCE 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 SANTA CRUZ VALLEY HERITAGE ALLIANCE INC?
- SANTA CRUZ VALLEY HERITAGE ALLIANCE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA ($21,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SANTA CRUZ VALLEY HERITAGE ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $21,000 in grants to SANTA CRUZ VALLEY HERITAGE ALLIANCE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA CRUZ VALLEY HERITAGE ALLIANCE INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA is the largest funder on record, with $21,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA CRUZ VALLEY HERITAGE ALLIANCE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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