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SUNAGO INC

SUNAGO INC (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,119 to it, the largest being SHIRLEY C CARIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($350,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$123k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$400k
Net assets
$386k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Sunago Inc does

Mission

Sunago desires to enhance people's lives by developing genuine community through innovative community engagement. It is out of this desire that sunago will be a community center.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Sunago provides services to organizations by providing space for organizations to meet. In 2024, these organizations include: blue mountain revenue, hope women's center, I-help homeless shelter, and other organizations that provide a service to the community that also agrees with the mission and vision of sunago and meet the criteria for the community development.

    $8,746 spent$8,086 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

  2. Sunago provides services to individuals by providing classes and events for individuals from pre-school through seniors. Classes include dance classes, fitness classes, and classes that provide training such as cpr/babysitting and health classes. Sunago is open to holding other types of classes that agree with its mission and meet the needs of the community.

    $28,875 spent
    17% of program spending

  3. Liberty thrift is a thrift store located in el mirage, az with the mission of using proceeds to fund current and future community endeavors, such as: monthly food distribution, free health screenings, support of local community with clothes/showers/food and more.

    $129,417 spentof which $62 as grants$-2,249 earned by the program
    77% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $167,038.

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 ($295k) Expenses 100 ($272k) Net assets 100 ($194k)2018 Revenue 85 ($252k) Expenses 79 ($214k) Net assets 119 ($231k)2019 Revenue 104 ($308k) Expenses 86 ($232k) Net assets 159 ($307k)2020 Revenue 136 ($400k) Expenses 93 ($252k) Net assets 235 ($455k)2021 Revenue 114 ($337k) Expenses 90 ($244k) Net assets 283 ($548k)2022 Revenue 38 ($111k) Expenses 76 ($207k) Net assets 249 ($482k)2023 Revenue 57 ($169k) Expenses 74 ($201k) Net assets 243 ($470k)2024 Revenue 42 ($123k) Expenses 76 ($207k) Net assets 199 ($386k)
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Revenue (42)Expenses (76)Net assets (199)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 2019 to 2020, from $308k to $485k (+58%).

$199k
$232k
$308k
$485k
$550k
$482k
$470k
$386k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

167% of SUNAGO INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$24k
’17
$38k
’18
$76k
’19
$148k
’20
$93k
’21
−$95k
’22
−$32k
’23
−$84k
’24
6.7
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.

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Listed35555555
Joined·+2+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50k → $50k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
total
funders
1
1
1
2
2

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 SUNAGO 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

SUNAGO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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

87%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.

“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 SUNAGO INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

AZ

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

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’18
’19
’20
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

SUNAGO INC is better cushioned than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−68% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like SUNAGO 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

Surprise Sundancers82%Science Foundation Arizona78%Sunstate Equipment Foundation78%Recreation Centers of Sun City Inc78%Sunset Community Health Center78%Native Renewables Inc78%Sonoran University of Health Sciences78%Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center77%

Nationally

Surprise Sundancers82%Solidago Foundation82%Social Enterprise Greenhouse81%Suncoast Mental Health Center Inc81%Project Sunshine Inc81%Suncadia Fund for Community Enhancement81%Spurwinkri80%Sunrise Community Health80%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 9%Fundraising 10%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Sunago Community Development LLC · disregarded
  • West Valley Bible Church · exempt
  • Tekton Construction LLC · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUNAGO INC?
SUNAGO INC (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,119 to it, the largest being SHIRLEY C CARIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($350,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUNAGO INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $400,119 in grants to SUNAGO INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUNAGO INC?
SHIRLEY C CARIS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUNAGO 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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