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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by ARIZONA SPELLERS ACADEMY.

Totals

Total revenue
$439,070
Total expenses
$392,898
Contributions and grants received
$53,488
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$385,582
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$97,829
Total liabilities, end of year
$2,250
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$95,579
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$332,364
Management and general expenses
$60,534
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$332,364

Program services were 84.6% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $0

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $0

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $53,488

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $0

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Tuition

    total $374,722 · related or exempt $374,722 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Registration & Other Fees

    total $10,860 · related or exempt $10,860 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $28,846 · management and general $28,846

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $181,308 · program services $181,308

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $19,835 · program services $14,509 · management and general $5,326

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $18,469 · program services $15,872 · management and general $2,597

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $98 · management and general $98

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $6,600 · management and general $6,600

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $48,438 · program services $48,438

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $1,046 · program services $1,046

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $17,405 · program services $5,056 · management and general $12,349

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $1,958 · program services $1,958

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $51,179 · program services $51,179

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $5,603 · program services $885 · management and general $4,718

  • 24a · Other expenses: Curriculum & Classroom Supplies

    total $11,493 · program services $11,493 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Staff Training & Inservice

    total $620 · program services $620 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $50,182 · end of year $53,834

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $43,995

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $775 · end of year $2,250

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $49,407 · end of year $95,579

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

AZSA presumes competence in nonspeaking, minimally and unreliably speaking individuals, providing access to age appropriate academics with a focus on spelling methods. We will provide a safe and fun environment for students to build social connections.

Activities or mission (Part I)

School: providing grade level curriculum that assumes competence in non-speaking children with autism. Speech Therapy: All teachers and aids are certified in through Spellers-children are given 1:1 coaching throughout the school day Vision Therapy: All students are giving an in-person assessment by an optometrist and provided with vision therapy

  • Arizona Spellers' Academy had a successful first year with a 100% re-enrollment rate for the next school year. AZSA will also add another classroom with 5 additional students in the next school year.

    Expenses $332,364 · Revenue $385,582

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Daniel Stone

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $13,846
    From this org
    $13,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Melissa Stone

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $4,678
    From this org
    $4,678
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Matthew Thorne

    Director

    Total calculated
    $1,000
    From this org
    $1,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Michele Thorne

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Kimberly Barua

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
5 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202513099349304011

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