Arizona · Nonprofit
SURPRISE SUNDANCERS
SURPRISE SUNDANCERS (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being Northwest Valley Chamber of Commerce ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $199k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $369k
What Surprise Sundancers does
Mission
The sundancers provide volunteer services at the surprise recreation campus and other city special events. As a non-profit volunteer organization, the Surprise Sundancers raise charitable donations and receive contributions to support greater (continued on schedule o) (continued from 990 page 2) surprise/northwest valley youth-related programs and projects, including the award-winning dream catcher park.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Volunteer program - provide volunteer support to the city of surprise in areas including spring training operations, national tennis tournaments, and special city events.
$46,691 spent$85,000 earned by the program15% of program spendingSundancer scholarship - the Surprise Sundancers award scholarships to youth who demonstrate high engagement in the community, participate in athletic programs, and maintain a minimum cumulative gpa of 3.0. The program is funded by the Surprise Sundancers through a fund held by the arizona community foundation. During the 2024-2025 fiscal year, $267,000 in scholarship funds were distributed to acf, including $157,000 awarded in the prior fiscal year.
$267,955 spentof which $267,000 as grants85% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $314,646.
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 2020 to 2021, from $938k to $257k (−73%).
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.
0% of SURPRISE SUNDANCERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
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 SURPRISE SUNDANCERS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SURPRISE SUNDANCERS'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
SURPRISE SUNDANCERS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SURPRISE SUNDANCERS
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 SURPRISE SUNDANCERS: 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 SURPRISE SUNDANCERS?
- SURPRISE SUNDANCERS (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being Northwest Valley Chamber of Commerce ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SURPRISE SUNDANCERS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to SURPRISE SUNDANCERS.
- Who is the largest funder of SURPRISE SUNDANCERS?
- Northwest Valley Chamber of Commerce is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SURPRISE SUNDANCERS 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 1 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