Arizona · Nonprofit
Spaces of Opportunity
Spaces of Opportunity (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $314,000 to it, the largest being THE SPROUTS HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($185,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $407k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $314k
- Net assets
- $191k
What Spaces of Opportunity does
Mission
Spaces of Opportunitys mission is to enable all south Phoenix families to have affordable access to healthy food, active living and healthy roots in their cultures. Spaces is engineering a comprehensive, neighborhood-level food system where gardeners, farmers and farm workers are celebrated as artisans. Spaces is transforming a food desert to a food oasis through the coordination of a 19-acre incubator farm, family gardens and an on-site farmers market.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fiscal year 2025, Spaces of Opportunity continued to expand its role as a community-driven food systems hub in South Phoenix, increasing access to affordable, culturally relevant food while strengthening economic opportunities for local growers. The organization supported over 20 incubator farmers and more than 50 community gardeners across its 19-acre site, while hosting a monthly farmers market that accepted SNAP and Double Up Food Bucks, improving food access for low-income families. Spaces also advanced its food distribution efforts through grant-funded programs, including produce bag distribution sourced directly from on-site farmers, ensuring consistent revenue streams for growers and fresh food access for the community. In addition, the organization enhanced its infrastructure with expanded cold storage capacity, increasing its ability to aggregate and distribute locally grown produce. Through volunteer engagement, educational programming, and partnerships with local schools and organizations, Spaces provided hands-on learning opportunities focused on nutrition, agriculture, and community leadership. As a growing independent nonprofit, Spaces of Opportunity continues to…
$444,109 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $444,109.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $315k to $299k (−5%).
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.
79% of Spaces of Opportunity’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Dave Brown
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 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 Spaces of Opportunity’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
Spaces of Opportunity leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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
67% 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 Spaces of Opportunity.
“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
100% of Spaces of Opportunity'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
Spaces of Opportunity's revenue fell 37% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Spaces of Opportunity
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Spaces of Opportunity: 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 Spaces of Opportunity?
- Spaces of Opportunity (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $314,000 to it, the largest being THE SPROUTS HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($185,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Spaces of Opportunity have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $314,000 in grants to Spaces of Opportunity, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Spaces of Opportunity?
- THE SPROUTS HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Spaces of Opportunity 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 2024–2025), 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