Arizona · Nonprofit
THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION
THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,847,750 to it, the largest being THE THUNDERBIRDS ($3,847,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Valley of the Sun United Waylocal
- Tucson Conquistadores Foundationportfolio match
- Tucson Conquistadores Incportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $300k → $493k.
From the IRS filings of THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Valley of the Sun United WaylocalAZ · funds 211 organizations near you
- Tucson Conquistadores Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tucson Conquistadores Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lohse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rs Hoyt Jr Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Larcher Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waste Not InclocalAZ · funds 81 organizations near you
- The Kitay Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Absolon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mulcahy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charro Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jdt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Thunderbirds Charities · exempt
- The Thunderbirds · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION?
- THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,847,750 to it, the largest being THE THUNDERBIRDS ($3,847,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,847,750 in grants to THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION?
- THE THUNDERBIRDS is the largest funder on record, with $3,847,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION 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 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing