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UPWARD FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

EIN 86-0221195 PHOENIX, AZ

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Revenue 2024
$1,497,724
Expenses 2024
$4,613,972

Program services were 85.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Street
6306 N 7TH STREET

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

HELPING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS MEET THEIR HIGHEST POTENTIAL WHILE EMPOWERING THEIR FAMILIES TO THRIVE.

  • PROVIDE INCLUSIVE CHILDCARE PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AS WELL AS CHILDREN THAT ARE AGE APPROPRIATE. OUR CHILDCARE PROGRAM FEATURES A VERY LOW CHILD TO TEACHER RATIO, ON-SITE NURSING CARE, CARE FOR CHILDREN WITH SEVERE DISABILITIES IN AN INTEGRATED SETTING, AND PEDIATRIC THERAPY FOR THOSE WHO QUALIFY.

    Expenses $3,628,892 · Grants $2,914,721 · Revenue $715,213

  • PROVIDE CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS THE BEST ENVIRONMENT IN THE GREATER PHOENIX METROPOLITAN AREA WITH LOW STUDENT-TEACHER RATIOS, HIGHLY QUALIFIED SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS, AND A FULL-TIME MEDICAL STAFF.

    Expenses $318,675 · Revenue $232,015

  • IN FEBRUARY 2024 THE ORGANIZATION LEASED ITS THERAPY BUILDING TO A PRIVATE COMPANY, JUST FOR KIDS THERAPY. THIS ALLOWS OUR STUDENTS TO RECEIVE APPROPRIATE SERVICES AS WELL AS PROVIDE A SOURCE FOR STUDENT REFERRALS TO UPWARD.

    Revenue $159,681

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.

  • Jos Anshell

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marshall Porter Thru 2225

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mb Thomas

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Matthews

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Susan Stone Rosenfield

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Critchfield

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Doug Carter Thru 9132024

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $110,102
    From this org
    $104,126
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,976
    Hours/week
    40

  • Alisa Chatinsky Start 102024

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $46,600
    From this org
    $46,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,497,724
    Expenses
    $4,613,972
    Contributions
    $390,706
    Grants paid
    $2,914,721
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,878,123
    Expenses
    $2,050,342
    Contributions
    $1,076,567
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,568,504
    Expenses
    $2,122,218
    Contributions
    $655,692
    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
    $1,746,261
    Expenses
    $2,142,604
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,450,153

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,778,927
    Expenses
    $1,997,822
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,876,100

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,242,239
    Expenses
    $2,416,412
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,090,065

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.

Grants made

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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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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.