Arizona · Nonprofit
SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK
SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK (Arizona) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,891,584 to it, the largest being GOFF FAMILY FOUNDATION ($930,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $851k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $254k
What Save Our Schools Arizona Network does
Mission
We are a non-partisan, community-based organization that strengthens and protects quality public education for every student, family, and community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sosazn extends conversations of public education into the community through local volunteers, including collaboration with stakeholders such as school boards, education associations, school superintendents, teachers, parents, students, local and statewide association, and other groups. Outreach also includes collaboration and information exchange with organizations in other states and nationally battling privatization and supporting public education. Sosazn seeks to foster citizen participation in supporting local public schools, students, educators, and education infrastructure in order to build a stronger arizona.
$214,291 spent50% of program spendingSosazn develops and delivers webinars, workshops, forums, discussions, and presentations that inform a wide variety of audiences about the conditions and opportunities for public education throughout arizona. During 2022, sosazn organized and hosted dozens of online and in-person education forums both locally and for national audiences, including "speaking of schools" webinars, school board trainings, bi-partisan candidate forums, legislation recaps, and others. Sosazn's blog series on public education and the various methods and practices of defunding public schools included 8 new posts.
$150,004 spent35% of program spendingSosazn used its resources to develop, aggregate, organize, and disseminate research, resources, and information relative to public education in arizona. The network focuses on underresourced communities and efforts to privatize and monetize public education, and how structural inequities in funding formulas disadvantage poor, immigrant, native american, and rural communities. Our research has included detailed, nonpartisan information about how school test scores disadvantage economically challenged districts, how universal vouchers threaten to bankrupt arizona, and the crisis of teachers leaving the classroom.
$64,287 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $428,582.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $70k to $255k (+263%).
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 SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $360k → $295k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK’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
SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 47% · 2022 63% · 2023 93% — 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
50% of SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 47% 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
91% of SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $286k 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
SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
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
- Save Our Schools Arizona · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK: 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 SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK?
- SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK (Arizona) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,891,584 to it, the largest being GOFF FAMILY FOUNDATION ($930,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,891,584 in grants to SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK?
- GOFF FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $930,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 15 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