Arizona · Nonprofit
Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN
Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN (Arizona) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,269,641 to it, the largest being WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($470,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN does
Mission
SARSEF's mission is to create Arizona's future critical thinkers and problem solvers through science and engineering.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education and Outreach: SARSEF's outreach programs directly engaged 5,467 students, 454 teachers, and 2,499 caregivers in hands-on STEM exploration, indirectly impacting an additional 19,931 students. 2,309 students across 7 counties participated in hands-on STEM Exploration at Arizona STEM Adventure, 68% of whom from Title 1 schools. STAR Lab at the UArizona gives 65 high school students access to professional research resources and mentorship, 54% of whom are a race or ethnicity underrepresented in STEM. The Regional Science and Engineering Fair showcased 1,484 projects by 6,030 students from 144 schools awarded over $162,000 in scholarships, trips and prizes to students for high quality research. 60.2% of students participating in the Science Fair were from Title 1 schools.
$809,486 spent$37,078 earned by the program76% of program spendingCamps SARSEF offers two types of summer camp programming. SARSEF Summer STEM Camps where 4th-8th grade students attend sites across Tucson to explore STEM through hands-on activities. These camps are a pay-what-you-can model, with each week centering around a different theme from topics as broad as STEM exploration to more specific subjects like desert ecology! 157 students were served in FY 24-25. Applied Career Exploration in STEM (ACES) Camp for Girls is a week-long no-cost summer camp for middle school girls. In July 2024, ACES Camp served 45 students from Sunnyside School District. The camp is designed to explore a wide variety of careers, provide a path to potential success, and lay a foundation for STEM identity in higher education and beyond through teamwork, use of technology, and hands-on learning.
$169,893 spent$11,861 earned by the program16% of program spendingRacing the Sun Racing the Sun is a hands-on engineering program that challenges high school students to design, build, and race electric and solar-powered go-karts. Over nine months, students work with teachers, mentors, and industry professionals before competing on Race Day. Throughout the program, they apply principles of physics, engineering, and fabrication while working in teams to transform their ideas into working prototypes and develop leadership and interpersonal skills. During the 20242025 school year, 110 students and 14 faculty advisors from 11 high schools participated with direct support from community members.
$88,892 spent$41,750 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,068,271.
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 2024 to 2025, from $936k to $1.3M (+44%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 6% · 2022 2% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Julie Euber
CEO
Board chair
Eric Pickney
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $107k → $470k.
5 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 funders by total. 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
Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
44% 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 Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 34% · 2019 20% · 2020 22% · 2021 24% · 2022 17% · 2023 15% — 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
32% of Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $744k 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.
Against its field
Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN
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
90%
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 Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: 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 Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN?
- Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN (Arizona) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,269,641 to it, the largest being WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($470,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $3,269,641 in grants to Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN?
- WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $470,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN 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 57 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