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FIRST PLACE AZ

EIN 46-1722227 PHOENIX, AZ

Revenue 2025
$9,720,971
Expenses 2025
$10,939,361

Program services were 89.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
L80
Classification
1000
Street
717 E MARYLAND AVE STE 110

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.

  • DENISE D RESNIK

    FOUNDER, PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $319,937
    From this org
    $290,048
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,889
    Hours/week
    50 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $267,123
    Bonus
    $22,925
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,741
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,148
    Filer's total
    $319,937

  • HOWARD SOBELMAN

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • GREG WELLS

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARY-SARA GORDON JONES

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JUAN SALGADO

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KATHY HANCOCK - SECRETARY

    THEN DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRUCE SCHWARTZ - TREASURER

    THEN DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AMIT BASAK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • EVELYN CASUGA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR OLIVER HARPER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PENNY PFAELZER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOSE RIVERA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LORENZO ROMERO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STUART SAVITZ - VICE CHAIR

    THEN DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAREN STARBOWSKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL TRAILOR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NANCY OTTMANN

    COO

    Total calculated
    $231,768
    From this org
    $216,563
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,205
    Hours/week
    54 + 9 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $199,775
    Bonus
    $16,788
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,541
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,664
    Filer's total
    $231,768

  • CHUCK HEIMERDINGER

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $99,846
    From this org
    $99,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20 + 4 related

  • BRAD HERRON-VALENZUELA

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $108,827
    From this org
    $104,812
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,015
    Hours/week
    40

  • TOM ORTEGA

    DIRECTOR OF MULZET CENTER

    Total calculated
    $121,900
    From this org
    $119,252
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,648
    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $9,720,971
    Expenses
    $10,939,361
    Contributions
    $6,955,501
    Grants paid
    $4,877,488
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,063,755
    Expenses
    $6,098,885
    Contributions
    $3,892,458
    Grants paid
    $101,609
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,565,633
    Expenses
    $5,101,687
    Contributions
    $3,527,523
    Grants paid
    $55,455
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,135,757
    Expenses
    $4,654,398
    Contributions
    $3,181,343
    Grants paid
    $39,734

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
    $7,150,509
    Expenses
    $4,206,344
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,321,199

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,993,624
    Expenses
    $4,381,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,630,138

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,577,325
    Expenses
    $4,671,268
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,244,794

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,860,597
    Expenses
    $3,996,139
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,689,541

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,734,769
    Expenses
    $1,625,710
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,307,314

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,500,760
    Expenses
    $1,071,244
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,726,430

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,030,516
    Expenses
    $649,251
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,720,836

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,922,435
    Expenses
    $226,420
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,204,975

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • TWAIN INVESTMENT FUND 165 LLC

    NMTC LOAN HOLDER · MO · income $0 · assets $0

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.