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Sonoran Art Foundation Inc

Sonoran Art Foundation Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $396,913 to it, the largest being MARGARET E MOONEY FOUNDATION ($127,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$484k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$397k
Net assets
$110k
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Sonoran Art Foundation Inc does

Mission

Promoting appreciation and awareness of glass arts through year-round educational programming.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Sonoran Art Foundation has the only full-service glass school in the Southwestern United States. Programs include educational classes and experiences, public lectures, demonstrations, community outreach, art programs for underserved populations, workforce development opportunities, and volunteer and internship opportunities. The populations served include youth through senior groups. More than 70% of youth education program participants are low-income and represent racial minorities, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ students and come from schools with limited budgets for arts programming. The Sonoran Glass School impacted 3638 individuals between July 1, 2024 and Jun 30, 2025.

    $436,295 spent$294,172 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $436,295.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($429k) Expenses 100 ($451k) Net assets 100 ($52k)2018 Revenue 97 ($418k) Expenses 94 ($424k) Net assets 89 ($46k)2019 Revenue 115 ($494k) Expenses 102 ($462k) Net assets 151 ($78k)2020 Revenue 116 ($497k) Expenses 125 ($566k) Net assets 18 ($9k)2021 Revenue 94 ($405k) Expenses 82 ($370k) Net assets 84 ($43k)2022 Revenue 135 ($580k) Expenses 122 ($552k) Net assets 135 ($70k)2023 Revenue 108 ($465k) Expenses 95 ($428k) Net assets 185 ($96k)2024 Revenue 128 ($547k) Expenses 117 ($528k) Net assets 223 ($115k)2025 Revenue 113 ($484k) Expenses 108 ($490k) Net assets 212 ($110k)
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Revenue (113)Expenses (108)Net assets (212)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $237k to $311k (+31%).

$216k
$237k
$311k
$312k
$313k
$317k
$358k
$330k
$275k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 17% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 5% · 2021 2% · 2022 15% · 2023 30% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

27% of Sonoran Art Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$22k
’17
−$6k
’18
$32k
’19
−$69k
’20
$34k
’21
$29k
’22
$37k
’23
$20k
’24
−$5k
’25
2.4
months of
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed111091012
Joined·+1+7+1+3
No longer listed·2801
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $38k → $4k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Sonoran Art Foundation 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.

How concentrated its funding is

Sonoran Art Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

43% 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 Sonoran Art Foundation Inc.

32%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 94% · 2019 57% · 2020 60% · 2021 52% · 2022 71% · 2023 99% — 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.

How long its funders stay

56% of Sonoran Art Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

94% of Sonoran Art Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

OH
CA
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Sonoran Art Foundation Inc receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $397k to it.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Sonoran Art Foundation Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.

Federal$15k
grants $15kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$15k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 5%Fundraising 6%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

73%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Sonoran Art Foundation Inc?
Sonoran Art Foundation Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $396,913 to it, the largest being MARGARET E MOONEY FOUNDATION ($127,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Sonoran Art Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $396,913 in grants to Sonoran Art Foundation Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sonoran Art Foundation Inc?
MARGARET E MOONEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $127,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sonoran Art Foundation 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.

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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 10 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