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EDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONA

EIN 20-2366755 PHOENIX, AZ

Revenue 2025
$5,917,126
Expenses 2025
$7,834,621

Program services were 81.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
4747 NORTH 32ND STREET 150

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).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • RICH NICKEL

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $323,071
    From this org
    $297,623
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,448
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $257,900
    Bonus
    $26,000
    Other
    $13,723
    Deferred
    $14,300
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,148
    Filer's total
    $323,071
  • RON BUTLER

    VICE CHAIR & TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • JOHN FEES

    DIRECTOR & CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • SHELLEY MELLON

    DIRECTOR & SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • TRACY BAME

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • TENIQUA BROUGHTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • DR DANIEL CORR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • JASON COOCHWYTEWA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • GONZALO DE LA MELENA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • KATE HICKMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • EDMUNDO HIDALGO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • CHEVY HUMPHREY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • PAUL KOEHLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • VINCE ROIG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • CRISTIE STREET

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • SCOTT VANDERPOOL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • SHELLEY WATSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • JENNIFER M MURPHY

    VP OF POSTSECOND. ACCESS & ATTAINMENT

    Total calculated
    $122,131
    From this org
    $106,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,131
    Hours/week
    40
  • DIANA FIGUEROA

    SR VP MARCOMM & STRATEGIC

    Total calculated
    $160,616
    From this org
    $152,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,616
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $142,000
    Bonus
    $10,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,600
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,016
    Filer's total
    $160,616
  • TEENA OLSZEWSKI

    SR VP & CHIEF OF STAFF

    Total calculated
    $160,582
    From this org
    $152,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,582
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $143,000
    Bonus
    $9,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,600
    Nontaxable benefits
    $982
    Filer's total
    $160,582
  • STEPHEN HART

    VP OF FINANCE/ADMIN

    Total calculated
    $129,358
    From this org
    $122,300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,058
    Hours/week
    40
  • MYRNA M CARDENAS

    VP OF SUCCESS SERVICES PARTNERSHIPS

    Total calculated
    $125,477
    From this org
    $109,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,277
    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 — 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $5,917,126
    Expenses
    $7,834,621
    Contributions
    $5,386,833
    Grants paid
    $2,765,065
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,266,542
    Expenses
    $7,219,589
    Contributions
    $5,894,596
    Grants paid
    $2,133,540
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,242,134
    Expenses
    $6,164,873
    Contributions
    $9,011,579
    Grants paid
    $1,469,054

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.

Grants made

  • EASY TO LEARN

    $10,000

    2022 ADELANTE PARTNER SUPPORT

  • GLENDALE HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT #205

    $7,000

    2022 COLLEGE KNOWING & GOING

  • COCONINO HIGH SCHOOL

    $6,000

    2023 COLLEGE KNOWING & GOING

  • MARCOS DE NIZA HIGH SCHOOL

    $6,000

    2023 COLLEGE KNOWING & GOING

  • MOUNTAIN POINTE HIGH SCHOOL

    $6,000

    2023 COLLEGE KNOWING & GOING

  • SAHUARITA USD #30

    $6,000

    2023 COLLEGE KNOWING & GOING

Where these grants went next →

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 10 September 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.