Arizona Town Hall

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
860177876
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$447,243
Expenses
$382,219
Assets
$594,996
Liabilities
$60,166

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TARA JACKSON (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • GREGORY FALLS (BOARD CHAIR)
  • BARRY AARONS (DIRECTOR)
  • DON BISCHOFF (DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Educating, engaging, connecting and empowering communities to solve challenging issues through respectful and informed discussion. Training current and future leaders on effective community engagement.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Arizona town hall identifies critical issues facing Arizona, creates the forum for education and exploration of topics and fosters civic engagement and leadership development. Arizona town hall serves all of Arizona by building stronger, more informed communities and creating consensus recommendations on important policy issues. A report is published each year that contains extensive research on the topics and consensus recommendations from diverse arizonans. Shorter summary pieces and related documents are also published each year. Publications are distributed to business, community, government and organizational leaders as well as town hall members. They are also used in college and professional classes. The Arizona town hall convenes numerous programs throughout the year including community and future leader town halls, community outreach programs and trainings.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 94% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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

STRONG - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 80
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.1%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 95.8%; rating input score 96; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.1% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 23 of 24 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $362K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 24 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.