Arizona · Nonprofit
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,123,318 to it, the largest being Pima Council on Aging ($2,060,178). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $29M
What United Cerebral Palsy of Southern Arizona Inc does
Mission
United cerebral palsy of southern arizona advances its mission by providing home- and community- based programs and services to people of all ages with disabilities, as well as older adults, throughout pima, santa cruz, and yuma counties. These services are designed to help individuals live as independently as possible in their own homes, participate fully in community life, and maintain meaningful connections with family, friends, and their communities. By providing individualized services and supports in home and community settings, ucpsa helps individuals remain in the least restrictive environment appropriate to their needs and reduces reliance on institutional care. Our programs promote independence, choice, dignity, community inclusion, and quality of life while also providing essential support to families and caregivers. Ucpsa serves individuals with cerebral palsy and a broad range of other developmental and physical disabilities. More than 85% of the individuals we serve have
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, ucpsa provided attendant care, habilitation, and respite services to 1,351 clients across tucson (752), yuma (452), and green valley (147). Tucson and green valley maintained consistent client levels, while yuma continued its foster care respite program and increased caseloads across all services. The workability program in tucson and yuma served 242 clients (199 in tucson; 43 in yuma) and placed 29 students in competitive jobs. Tucsons days without walls (dta) program provided services for 26 clients. Workabilitys pre-employment transition services (pre-ets) program provided employment-focused workshops to youth ages 1422, covering five core employment-related topics. In 2025, the pre-ets program delivered workshops to over 300 students. As part of the meals for life program, workability provided 1,105 meals to ucpsa clients in 2025. By the fourth quarter of 2025, ucpsa employed over 1,800 staff across all locations.
$43,847,266 spent$5,410,529 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $43,847,266.
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 $14M to $31M (+129%).
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 84% · 2020 82% · 2021 85% · 2022 86% · 2023 90% · 2024 90% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% 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
Cynthia Mars
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $331k → $12k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA 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
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
100% 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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
98% of UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA 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. $26k 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.
Against its field
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC
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In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC?
- UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,123,318 to it, the largest being Pima Council on Aging ($2,060,178). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,123,318 in grants to UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC?
- Pima Council on Aging is the largest funder on record, with $2,060,178 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA 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 4 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