The Arizona Highway Patrol Associaton Charities

Analysis

The Arizona Highway Patrol Associaton Charities is a registered charity in United States, based in Gilbert, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, The Arizona Highway Patrol Associaton Charities reported income of $64k and spending of $208k, spending 325% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $1.0m to $64k (-94%), an average of -60% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 101%. Over the whole period it spent 63% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Arizona Highway Patrol Associaton Charities sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 25th percentile, and in the 23rd percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation Inc ($64k), Old Colony Cougars PTO Inc ($64k) and The Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati Foundation ($64k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 29% of the total. At year end it held assets of $727k against liabilities of $12k, net assets of $715k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.