Arizona Entrepreneurs Organization
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860984924
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4805968299
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,514,797
- Expenses
- $1,457,753
- Assets
- $1,725,276
- Liabilities
- $950,492
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Melissa Groen (Executive Director)
- Chad Nikkel (Chapter President)
- Karl Bickmore (President Elect)
Highest reported compensation
- Melissa Groen (Executive Director): $119,271 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 core mission of the Entrepreneurs' Organization of Arizona is to engage leading entrepreneurs to learn and grow with a focus on supporting the whole entrepreneur across business and personal spheres. Our vision is to build the world's most influential community of entrepreneurs, helping them achieve their full potential through peer-to-peer learning, leadership development, and trusted connections.
What it reported doing in 2025
Forum, Learning, and Social Events. Forum monies go towards globally-facilitated forum and moderator trainings, forum summits, workshops, Forum Next Level, our Spouse/Life Partner (SLP) and Key Executive (KE) programs, LINKs and Launch Pad. We hold multiple learning and social events throughout the year for our members, sponsors, Accelerator participants and the rest of our EO Arizona community to include SLP's and KE's. Our event programming is structured in a way to enhance and elevate our members business and personal lives. Learning events presented by key speakers help included The Lucky Years, Hyper Sales Growth, Rediscover Joy and Overcome Anxiety, Crowdfund Your Dreams, Five Elements of Memory Creation, Conversation from Chaos, Boundless Pro Day, Gen Z: Messages that Click, Leading with Emotional Courage, Food + Activism = Global Change, and Town Hall. Social events included a Welcome Back Happy Hour, New Member Welcome Happy Hours, Family Day, Holiday Party, Waste Management Phoenix Open and Chapter Retreat. Our chapter was highly engaged and we averaged over 60 percent member attendance to most events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.9%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.8%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.9% of revenue deployed · 78.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $119K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.