Arizona Border Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992597614
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Douglas, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5202084463
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $995,319
- Expenses
- $774,800
- Assets
- $253,647
- Liabilities
- $8,098
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joseph Gill (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Joseph Gill (CEO): $85,108 total reported compensation
- Alexandra Boneo (COO): $58,154 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Arizona Border Alliance strengthens health education and opportunity across Southern Arizona by mobilizing partnerships and resources that address social determinants of health and respond to community-identified needs. Through collaborative community-based programs ABA advances food security workforce development youth leadership violence prevention and access to essential services in rural and border communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Arizona Border Alliance conducted large-scale community resource distribution efforts through partnerships with organizations such as Feed the Children. The organization received significant in-kind donations including water sunscreen toys for children office supplies and health and beauty products. Two major distribution events each consisting of approximately twelve pallets of goods were conducted during the year. The majority of these items were distributed directly to underserved individuals and families in rural and border communities. These efforts addressed critical health safety and basic needs while strengthening overall community wellness and resilience.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 67
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.5%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 182.1% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 164.1% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.8% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $725K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 8 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 43 of 43 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 1 filing year from 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.