Arizona · Nonprofit
SOMERTON TAMALE FESTIVAL INC
SOMERTON TAMALE FESTIVAL INC (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being YUMA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $246k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $88k
What Somerton Tamale Festival Inc does
Mission
To organize events and festivals to raise funds for annual scholarships and to promote higher education in yuma county and arizona.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our organization fills an important need by providing scholarships for local students who will attend arizona state university from yuma county. The organization represents a variety of majors and professions and individuals who serve as mentors to the recipients. Throughout the year to support our cause. The tamale festival is our major program event success. It attracts close to 30,000 visitors to somerton and in support of schools, local businesses, local vendors, and opportunity to highlight regional and local entertainment. With procees from the festival, the organiztion awarded over 26,000 in scholarhsips and 3,600 to local small businesses, families who run vendor booths, and school organizations and nonprofits who raise money at the event.
$220,247 spentof which $29,600 as grants$115,992 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $220,247.
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 2022 to 2023, from $34k to $82k (+140%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 8% · 2023 45% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of SOMERTON TAMALE FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Luis A Heredia
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.
From the IRS filings of SOMERTON TAMALE FESTIVAL 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 SOMERTON TAMALE FESTIVAL INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SOMERTON TAMALE FESTIVAL INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SOMERTON TAMALE FESTIVAL 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
91% 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 SOMERTON TAMALE FESTIVAL 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 SOMERTON TAMALE FESTIVAL INC?
- SOMERTON TAMALE FESTIVAL INC (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being YUMA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOMERTON TAMALE FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to SOMERTON TAMALE FESTIVAL INC.
- Who is the largest funder of SOMERTON TAMALE FESTIVAL INC?
- YUMA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOMERTON TAMALE FESTIVAL 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 2017–2024), 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