Joseph City Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831834863
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Joseph City, AZ, USA
Rating
56
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue
$68,892
Expenses
$73,030
Assets
$48,970

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Bryan Fields (President)

People named in this filing

  • Bryan Fields (President)
  • Catharina Hansen (Board Member)
  • Julie Fields (Board Member)

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

Fostering sustainable growth community resilience and business workforce development. Provide community food bank and to sponsor other community events and improvement through grants.

What it reported doing in 2025

Dept of Energy Energywerx Grant in collaboration with Arizona State University and Grow Arizona to conduct a comprehensive regional workforce assessment in anticipation of new industry and infrastructure developments following the closure of the Cholla Coal-Fired Power Plant. This was for the entire community and surrounding communities affected by the closure of the plant and the loss of employment. Over 347 workforce development surveys were conducted and student internships were provided. $40,000 was received in the 2025 Calendar Year $50,000 of expenses were paid in the 2025 Calendar Year including $10,000 that was received in Calendar Year 2024.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 30
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 30.6%; rating input score 31
  • Program expense ratio: 28.9%; rating input score 29

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: -6%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -123.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -45.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 30.6% of revenue deployed · 28.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.