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Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN

Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN (Arizona) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,219,641 to it, the largest being WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($420,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.8M
Revenue FY2025
57
Funders on record
$3.2M
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
28/57 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%

Against its field

Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($686k) Expenses 100 ($709k) Net assets 100 ($380k)2018 Revenue 100 ($687k) Expenses 99 ($705k) Net assets 95 ($362k)2019 Revenue 126 ($864k) Expenses 100 ($709k) Net assets 137 ($521k)2020 Revenue 132 ($907k) Expenses 122 ($865k) Net assets 148 ($563k)2021 Revenue 163 ($1.1M) Expenses 140 ($992k) Net assets 182 ($691k)2022 Revenue 155 ($1.1M) Expenses 165 ($1.2M) Net assets 141 ($536k)2023 Revenue 167 ($1.1M) Expenses 173 ($1.2M) Net assets 121 ($458k)2024 Revenue 219 ($1.5M) Expenses 164 ($1.2M) Net assets 212 ($803k)2025 Revenue 258 ($1.8M) Expenses 194 ($1.4M) Net assets 325 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (258)Expenses (194)Net assets (325)Peer revenue range

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: 2020 6% · 2021 6% · 2022 2% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 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.

$24k
17
$18k
18
$154k
19
$42k
20
$125k
21
$109k
22
$84k
23
$333k
24
$394k
25
4.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $107k → $470k.

5 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)23% 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 AZ Research Science & Eng FDN’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 AZ Research Science & Eng FDN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

45% 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 AZ Research Science & Eng FDN.

13%
largest funder
34%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 34% · 2019 20% · 2020 22% · 2021 24% · 2022 17% · 2023 15%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

32% of Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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

Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 20 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
NY
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DE
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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

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23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $744k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 57 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Arizona

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 9%Fundraising 14%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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 Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN?
Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN (Arizona) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,219,641 to it, the largest being WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($420,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN have?
IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $3,219,641 in grants to Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN?
WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $420,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN 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 57funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing