Arizona · Nonprofit
SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA
SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,375 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($223,695). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $239k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Science Foundation Arizona does
Mission
Science Foundation Arizona's mission is to diversify arizona's economy by investing in scientific and engineering research linked to industry needs and investing in education to create a work force with 21st centrury skills.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
Advance research to accelerate the safe and efficient integration of automated vehicles onto public roadways.
$336,322 spentof which $331,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $336,322.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.8M to $2.6M (−33%).
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: 2017 74% · 2018 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Brian Sherman
Interim exec dir
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $237k → $28.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $40k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Science Foundation Arizona). These are real filings, and they are not money SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA raised.
From the IRS filings of SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA’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
SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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
SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA's revenue fell 95% between 2017 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,253 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Government funding SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $646k on record.
- National Science Foundation$646k
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 SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA: 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 SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA?
- SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,375 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($223,695). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $239,375 in grants to SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA?
- JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $223,695 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCIENCE FOUNDATION ARIZONA 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), 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