Arizona · Nonprofit
Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation
Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (Arizona) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,812,793 to it, the largest being ARMSTRONG MCDONALD FOUNDATION ($460,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation does
Mission
To promote health, well-being, and social justice for those living with HIV, LGBTQ+ individuals, and communities marginalized by society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
HIV Care and Housing: The Care Services Department ensures that people living with HIV have access to the services they need to maintain optimal health and live as independently and safely as possible. Through our Care Services, SAAF provides case management, medical case management, housing, psychosocial support, and other support services. Of all the people served, roughly 95% are low income, with over 60% living below the federal poverty level. Due to the ongoing economic conditions and the stress of living with limited incomes, the demand for Care Services remains high.SAAF provided services to 1,479 people living with HIV/AIDS and their household members throughout Southern Arizona including Pima, Cochise, Santa Cruz, Graham, and Greenlee counties. Case Management Services: Case management provided needs assessments, the development of care and action plans, and the provision of or referral to necessary services. Case managers supported clients by linking them to medical care, behavioral health, substance abuse services, and other necessary social service programs.Support Services: Support services provided to clients include Complementary therapies, dental services (provided…
$8,183,485 spentof which $3,957,546 as grants49% of program spendingSAAF Health Clinic and Prevention: SAAF's Prevention Department applies empowering harm reduction approaches to support healthier communities. With passion, compassion, humility, and creativity, SAAF strives to make a meaningful impact. We foster sex-positive, safe spaces and deliver culturally responsive, client-centered services. We engage our communities with flexibility and with non-judgment, grounded in the understanding that we are part of the communities we serve. Drawing on our expertise, we work to advance social inequality and build collaborative partnerships that enable comprehensive, coordinated services. We are a team that is committed to advocating with and for our communities. We are willing to challenge the status quo and take initiative rather than wait for change. We initiate, prevent, promote, and protect.The Prevention Department provides HIV, Hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, as well as health education, service navigation, and harm reduction support for individuals at increased risk for HIV and related health concerns. In calendar year 2024, the department conducted 1,859 tests for HIV, Hepatitis C, and other sexually transmitted…
$7,888,209 spentof which $5,101,838 as grants47% of program spendingLGBTQ+ Youth Programs: Eon Youth Lounge: Through Eon programming, SAAF provides education, empowerment, support, and a safe space for LGBTQ+ youth. Youth Empowerment Leadership & Life skills (YELL): Substance abuse education, reduction, and coalition building is provided to Eon youth participants.Arizona Life Links for Youth (ALLY): This is a suicide prevention and LGBTQ youth arts initiative with the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Services include housing, food, transportation, emergency rent and utility assistance, and essential medical services that includes dental care and medical benefits management. Spectrum: Spectrum is a program collaboration with the University of Arizona's Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW). Through this collaboration, SAAF provides inclusive comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention groups and individual prevention navigation for LGBTQ+ youth and their allies. Anti-Violence Program: SAAF'S Anti-Violence Program (AVP) offers comprehensive support services for LGBTQ+ survivors of interpersonal violence throughout Southern Arizona. The program provides essential resources such as safety and goal planning, basic needs…
$608,311 spentof which $46,593 as grants4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,680,005.
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 $8.6M to $9.6M (+12%).
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 82% · 2018 89% · 2019 90% · 2020 91% · 2021 90% · 2022 90% · 2023 88% · 2024 72% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Patti Caldwell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 17 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $199k → $223k.
11 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Arizona AIDS Foundation’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 Arizona AIDS Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
53% 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 Arizona AIDS Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 13% · 2018 24% · 2019 40% · 2020 18% · 2021 18% · 2022 18% · 2023 34% — 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
37% of Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
64% of Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $853k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 Arizona AIDS Foundation has grown faster than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
- Department of Justice$515k
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 Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
- Stephenson Place · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation: 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 Arizona AIDS Foundation?
- Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (Arizona) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,812,793 to it, the largest being ARMSTRONG MCDONALD FOUNDATION ($460,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $2,812,793 in grants to Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation?
- ARMSTRONG MCDONALD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $460,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation 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