Arizona · Nonprofit
THE SEDONA CONFERENCE
THE SEDONA CONFERENCE (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,000 to it, the largest being ROBINS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ($13,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $949k
What The Sedona Conference does
Mission
The organization provides educational programs and develop related content for lawyers and judges in the areas of complex litigation, antitrust law, intellectual property rights, and data security and privacy laws.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Educational conferences, working group meetings publications TSC published11new or updated commentaries in its areas of expertise produced1conference reaching approximately101attorneys, judges, and others interested in the legal system held8working group meetings reaching approximately587attorneys, judges, and others which meetings provide a forum for the bench and bar to explore and identify issues related to TSCs areas of expertise and creating educational content in those areas worked with approximately1707attorneys, judges, and others who participate in TSCs working groups to create forward looking guidelines, best practices, and principle in TSCs areas of expertise had thousands of downloads of TSCs educational content from its website provided for free for personal use to interested attorneys, judges, and others.
$1,626,270 spentof which $115,000 as grants$1,421,863 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,626,270.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $1.3M (−11%).
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: 2021 21% · 2022 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of THE SEDONA CONFERENCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Kenneth J Withers
Executive Director, Secretary until 05/16/2025
Board chair
Robert Sterne
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $9k.
From the IRS filings of THE SEDONA CONFERENCE’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
THE SEDONA CONFERENCE 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
41% 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 THE SEDONA CONFERENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 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
THE SEDONA CONFERENCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
THE SEDONA CONFERENCE is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE SEDONA CONFERENCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $79 on record.
- Travel-Outst-Meals-Emp$66
- Travel-Outst-Incidentals-Emp$13
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE SEDONA CONFERENCE
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SEDONA CONFERENCE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SEDONA CONFERENCE?
- THE SEDONA CONFERENCE (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,000 to it, the largest being ROBINS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ($13,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SEDONA CONFERENCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $22,000 in grants to THE SEDONA CONFERENCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SEDONA CONFERENCE?
- ROBINS KAPLAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SEDONA CONFERENCE 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 2 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