Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$1,138,321

Total expenses

$3,247,551

Contributions and grants received

$1,023,212

Grants paid

$2,659,626

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$113,633

Other revenue

$1,476

Total assets, end of year

$2,337,097

Total liabilities, end of year

$689,610

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,647,487

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$2,843,855

Management and general expenses

$341,131

Fundraising expenses

$62,565

Program service expenses (Part III)

$2,843,855

Program services were 87.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Founded in 1966, Mesa United Way operates as a nonprofit philanthropic corporation under the State of Arizona laws. Mesa United Way focuses on addressing poverty challenges related to foster/kinship children, youth aging out of the foster care system, child literacy, veterans, and tax assistance to low- and moderate-income households. Through community partnerships Mesa United Way provides resources to these populations. Mesa United Way depends upon undesignated contributions from individuals and corporate donations to support its mission. These contributions often vary, based on current economic conditions. In addition, some donors will request their gifts be earmarked to agencies that do not share Mesa United Ways mission, resulting in decreased funding for Mesa United Ways priorities. Helens Hope Chest was launched by Mesa United Way in 2009 and became a separate legal entity in 2014. Helens Hope Chest is focused on addressing the needs of foster/kinship children from infancy through early adulthood. In July 2023, Mesa United Way created two new nonprofit corporations: Azura Inc. and Foster360 (which had previously operated as a program of Helens Hope Chest). Additionally, Helens Hope Chests affiliation with Mesa United Way was eliminated and reorganized as an independent nonprofit corporation. The purpose of these structural changes furthered Mesa United Ways goal of launching sustainable programming that directly improves the lives of our community members. This community has grown beyond the geographic boundaries of the City of Mesa. The newly incorporated programs that previously operated under the Mesa United Way organization, as well as the Mesa United Way initiatives of 12Books/Mesa Youth Unite, Mesa Veterans Resource Center, and VITA, were placed under the umbrella of Azura Inc. Not only has Mesa United Way succeeded in its goal, the programs and initiatives themselves were now able to flourish and grow without the limitations of the United Way structure. Whether through its traditional United Way workplace campaigns or finding the next gap in services that needs a solution, Mesa United Way remains committed to both supporting the work of its progeny while also remaining even more closely focused on its core mission of fighting for the health, education and financial stability of every person in Mesa.

  Expenses $2,843,855 · Grants $2,659,626

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• AZURA INC

  $2,659,626

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• AZURA INC

  C3 · PROGRAM ACTIVITIES TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF POVERTY · AZ

• HELENS HOPE CHEST

  C3 · EQUIPS FOSTER CARE INDIVIDUALS · AZ

• FOSTER 360

  C3 · PROGRAM ACT TO ASSIST FORMER FOSTER CARE · AZ

Assets distributed on this return

Schedule N, as filed: what the organization did with its assets when it liquidated or dissolved, or disposed of more than a quarter of them, and who received them. A recipient with an EIN is usually a successor organization; filers also list expenses such as legal fees here.

1 distribution to a recipient named as a person, $2,659,626. Counted where the filer named the recipient as a person, as filed. Who received them, and what, are not published.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

15 May 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202511359349316876

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