We Build Arizona
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271978858
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6022523926
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,059
- Expenses
- $49,881
- Assets
- $57,764
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- DAVID MARTIN (CHAIRMAN/DIRECTOR)
- RICARDO CARLO (TREASURER/DIRECTOR)
- MARILYN MARTIN (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We build Arizona engages in issues advocacy and public policy education to protect and grow state and local infastructure funding.
What it reported doing in 2024
We build Arizona devotes its efforts to inform the public of the importance of infrastructure investment through an understanding of public attitudes towards infrastructure, creating awareness of issues affecting infrastructure and advocating future infastructure funding.
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 99% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.5%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.5% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.