Asylum Program of Arizona
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470982003
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,715
- Expenses
- $20,051
- Assets
- $127,553
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lynn Marcus (President Board of Directors)
- Keith Schaeffer (Vice President & Treasurer Board Di)
People named in this filing
- Lynn Marcus (President Board of Directors)
- Keith Schaeffer (Vice President & Treasurer Board Di)
- Valerie Hink (Secretary Board of Directors)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Legal assistance for asylum seekers and torture survivors.
What it reported doing in 2025
Representation for asylum or relief under U.N. Convention Against Torture: Recruited and paid or helped pay for attorneys in 5 asylum cases involving 14 clients; 2 asylum applications and 3 work permits for indigent clients funded; 6 asylum clients granted protection in 4 cases with 2 now on appeal
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.3%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 96.1%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 50.8%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.36; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -29.4% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.3% of revenue deployed · 96.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.