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CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ARIZONA

EIN 83-1349329 PHOENIX, AZ

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Revenue 2024
$1,095,582
Expenses 2024
$778,647

Program services were 92.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B82
Classification
1200
Street
6300 N CENTRAL AVE

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

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list 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 · 2024

Mission

THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ARIZONA EMPOWERS STUDENTS TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL THROUGH ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS AND COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT, BRIDGING THE GAP TO AN EXTRAORDINARY EDUCATION AND LIFELONG SUCCESS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO HELP ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN ATTAIN COLLEGE READINESS.

  • TUTORING, MENTORING AND ADVISING:THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ARIZONA MATCHES STUDENTS WITH A VOLUNTEER MENTOR WHO PARTNERS WITH THE FAMILY AND THE STAFF TO PROVIDE ON-GOING SUPPORT, ENCOURAGEMENT AND MEANINGFUL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES. THE MENTOR IS A PROFESSIONAL IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO IS TRAINED TO SERVE AS A ROLE MODEL AND TEAM MEMBER IN THE SCHOLARS' EDUCATIONAL JOURNEY. TUTORING IS OFFERED AND ACCESSED AS NEEDED AT EVERY LEVEL OF THE SCHOLARS' EXPERIENCE, FROM 6TH GRADE THROUGH COLLEGE, INCLUDING ACT/SAT PREP. ALL OF THESE SUPPORTS ARE MANAGED BY A CHALLENGE ADVISOR ON STAFF WHO HELPS STUDENTS OVERCOME OBSTACLES IN THEIR PERSONAL AND ACADEMIC LIVES. ADVISORS ATTEND TEACHER CONFERENCES, OBTAIN COMPUTERS, SCHOOL SUPPLIES, ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND COUNSEL THEM THROUGHOUT THE COLLEGE AND FINANCIAL AID APPLICATION PROCESS.

    Expenses $722,241

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • John Birkelbach

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gene Myers

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erin Verneris

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Ellen Dalton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kari Davis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Latrice Lee McInerney

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Livingston

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alan Smiley

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ben Valore-Caplan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $1,095,582
    Expenses
    $778,647
    Contributions
    $1,007,509
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,110,470
    Expenses
    $657,994
    Contributions
    $1,061,529
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $939,239
    Expenses
    $645,479
    Contributions
    $843,466
    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
    $3,464,686
    Expenses
    $444,975
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,077,717

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,270,827
    Expenses
    $382,855
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,120,243

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,116,849
    Expenses
    $341,453
    Assets (EOY)
    $631,667

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $511,792
    Expenses
    $347,351
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,539,867

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

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 11 November 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.