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TEMPE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC

EIN 86-0254820 TEMPE, AZ

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Revenue 2024
$8,239,981
Expenses 2024
$5,645,202

Program services were 80.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S21Z
Classification
2000
Street
1208 E BROADWAY RD STE 111

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TCAA's mission is to eliminate poverty and advance equitable communities. This mission is achieved through the delivery of comprehensive human services programs designed to improve housing stability, increase food security, improve health and well-being and advance economic mobility.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TCAA's mission is based on an enduring vision of a society where every person has what they need to live a healthy, puposeful life. TCAA's mission is to eliminate poverty and advance equitable communities.

  • TCAA's serves low-income adults, families, and seniors living in Tempe and surrounding East Valley communities through the delivery of programs, resources, and opportunities that address a spectrum of needs. Since 1966, TCAA has helped tens of thousands of community members address the causes and effects of poverty and provided support to help peoplre and families move from crisis to stability. TCAA is one of the East Valley's largest social service agencies in terms of the volume of people served and range of programs offered. The capabilities of our experienced staff are monumentally enhanced with the involvement from public and private partners, and the active engagement of more than 400 volunteers annually.Our broad array of programming includes a Food Pantry, Escalante Community Garden, Senior Center Lunch Program, Meals on Wheels, Community Action Program,I-Help Emergency Shelter, East Valley Senior Home-Sharing program, Health Start early childhood development program, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, and the Financial Success Center. These programs are designed to foster improved food security, housing stability, health and well-being, and economic mobility among the individuals and communities served.TCAA clients include adults at risk of or experiencing homelessness, families in crisis, disabled and older adults seeking help to live independently, food insecure adults and families, low-income families from communities of color who are expecting a baby, and under or un-employed individuals desiring to improve their ecomomic status. These are examples of community members who benefit from TCAA program services. Our capacity to bring about positive change impacts over 35,000 unduplicated children and adults annually.

    Expenses $4,526,696

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Deborah Arteaga

    Former CEO

    Total calculated
    $145,914
    From this org
    $136,914
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,000
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $136,914
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $9,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $145,914
  • Jason Franz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dionte Tyler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lou Silverman

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nichol Khan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eric Cylwik

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Deidre Smith

    Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert Kawa

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brian Lee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Linda Redman

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Rooney

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mike Ostrowski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sara Appleton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Agni Guerrero

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tamara Reed

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Javier Luera

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott Bordow

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Britne Corkill

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rosa Inchausti

    Ex-Officio

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Phillip Scharf

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,239,981
    Expenses
    $5,645,202
    Contributions
    $3,805,080
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,469,868
    Expenses
    $5,794,574
    Contributions
    $2,586,675
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,387,332
    Expenses
    $5,187,940
    Contributions
    $2,531,318
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,714,787
    Expenses
    $5,159,864
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,447,637
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,725,859
    Expenses
    $4,341,425
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,621,216
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,308,078
    Expenses
    $4,106,192
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,474,063
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,439,388
    Expenses
    $4,204,844
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,006,531
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,370,802
    Expenses
    $3,736,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,785,578
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,567,935
    Expenses
    $3,300,611
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,122,085
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,926,357
    Expenses
    $3,033,624
    Assets (EOY)
    $853,331
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,098,926
    Expenses
    $3,189,066
    Assets (EOY)
    $985,353
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,221,488
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,164,680
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,952,815
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,018,411

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.