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SPACES OF OPPORTUNITY

EIN 88-1024860 PHOENIX, AZ

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Revenue 2023
$644,846
Expenses 2023
$351,192

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
K20
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 8814

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Spaces of Opportunity?s mission is to enable all south Phoenix families to have affordable access to healthy food, active living and healthy roots in their cultures. Spaces is engineering a comprehensive, neighborhood-level food system where gardeners, farmers and farm workers are celebrated as artisans. Spaces is transforming a food desert to a food oasis through the coordination of a 19-acre incubator farm, family gardens and an on-site farmers market.

Activities or mission (Part I)

In fiscal year 2024, Spaces of Opportunity was awarded the LPAZ (Local Purchase of Arizona) grant for the first time, receiving a total of $29,750 through the Purchase Local Food Agreement program. This funding allowed us to host over 24 produce distributions, providing more than 30 fresh, locally grown produce bags at each event. What made this especially impactful was that we were able to purchase exclusively from the farmers growing at Spaces, strengthening our local food system. The program was particularly helpful during the summer months when the farmers market was closed, ensuring continued support for our growers and consistent access to fresh food for the community.

  • In fiscal year 2024, Spaces of Opportunity was awarded the LPAZ (Local Purchase of Arizona) grant for the first time, receiving a total of $29,750 through the Purchase Local Food Agreement program. This funding allowed us to host over 24 produce distributions, providing more than 30 fresh, locally grown produce bags at each event. What made this especially impactful was that we were able to purchase exclusively from the farmers growing at Spaces, strengthening our local food system. The program was particularly helpful during the summer months when the farmers market was closed, ensuring continued support for our growers and consistent access to fresh food for the community.

    Expenses $281,742

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

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Dave Brown

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Darren Chapman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Emma Viera

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • John Wann-Angeles

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Kevina Devereaux

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Lyndsey Waugh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Heidi White

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Ryan Thayer

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $644,846
    Expenses
    $351,192
    Contributions
    $598,960
    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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 October 2022 to 30 September 2023
Principal officer
Ryan Thayer
Mailing address
PO BOX 8814Phoenix AZ 85066
Website
www.spacesofopportunity.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.