Arizona · Nonprofit
Tempe Community Action Agency Inc
Tempe Community Action Agency Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,357,182 to it, the largest being AREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION ONE INC ($3,082,058). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Tempe Community Action Agency Inc does
Mission
TCAA's mission is to eliminate poverty and advance equitable communities. This mission is achieved through the delivery of comprehensive human services programs designed to improve housing stability, increase food security, improve health and well-being and advance economic mobility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
TCAA's serves low-income adults, families, and seniors living in Tempe and surrounding East Valley communities through the delivery of programs, resources, and opportunities that address a spectrum of needs. Since 1966, TCAA has helped tens of thousands of community members address the causes and effects of poverty and provided support to help peoplre and families move from crisis to stability. TCAA is one of the East Valley's largest social service agencies in terms of the volume of people served and range of programs offered. The capabilities of our experienced staff are monumentally enhanced with the involvement from public and private partners, and the active engagement of more than 400 volunteers annually.Our broad array of programming includes a Food Pantry, Escalante Community Garden, Senior Center Lunch Program, Meals on Wheels, Community Action Program,I-Help Emergency Shelter, East Valley Senior Home-Sharing program, Health Start early childhood development program, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, and the Financial Success Center. These programs are designed to foster improved food security, housing stability, health and well-being, and economic mobility among the…
$4,526,696 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,526,696.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.2M to $8.0M (+53%).
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 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of Tempe Community Action Agency Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Phillip Scharf
CEO
Board chair
Deidre Smith
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $343k → $808k.
12 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.6M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Valley of the Sun United Way). These are real filings, and they are not money Tempe Community Action Agency Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Tempe Community Action Agency Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
Tempe Community Action Agency Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 Tempe Community Action Agency Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 83% · 2019 62% · 2020 22% · 2021 46% · 2022 38% · 2023 47% — 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
44% of Tempe Community Action Agency Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
83% of Tempe Community Action Agency Inc's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $812k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Tempe Community Action Agency Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Tempe Community Action Agency 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Tempe Community Action Agency Inc?
- Tempe Community Action Agency Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,357,182 to it, the largest being AREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION ONE INC ($3,082,058). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tempe Community Action Agency Inc have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $7,357,182 in grants to Tempe Community Action Agency Inc, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tempe Community Action Agency Inc?
- AREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION ONE INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,082,058 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tempe Community Action Agency 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 56 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing