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Nonprofits in Arizona

The IRS recognises 31,480 tax-exempt organizations with a Arizona address, rank 23 of 51. 2,431 of them have a Form 990 on record.

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At a glance

31,480
Organizations recognised
Registration, not activity.
27,613
Recognised under 501(c)(3)
The charitable subsection.
2,431
With a Form 990 on record
The only organizations with financial figures here.
415.2
Per 100,000 residents
Census resident population as the denominator.
$86,004,470,857
Revenue reported
Summed across filings, each for a different year.
1.6%
Share of all US organizations
Of 1,964,958 recognised nationally.

Taken from the IRS on September 19, 2026. Address of record, which is not necessarily where an organization operates.

Largest by revenue

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Organizations in Arizona by total revenue on their most recent Form 990
RankOrganizationRevenue
1BANNER HEALTH$10,839,690,022
2MERCY CARE$4,809,752,384
3DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE$4,038,974,109
4COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH$3,884,594,215
5HONORHEALTH$3,455,315,312
6GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY$2,009,925,571
7COMMONSPIRIT WASHINGTON$1,991,111,655
8BANNER UNIVERSITY FAMILY CARE$1,956,614,522
9PHOENIX CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$1,736,932,091
10DIGNITY HEALTH MEDICAL FOUNDATION$1,499,323,425
11CHI ST LUKES HEALTH BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE MEDICAL CENTER$1,477,334,868
12TEAMSTERS WESTERN REGION AND NEW JERSEY HEALTH CARE FUND$1,369,896,765
13SAINT JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM INC$1,073,473,886
14YUMA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$1,018,395,867
15TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER$913,221,586

The fifteen largest with a filing on record. Organizations without one are counted above but have no figures to rank.

Largest by assets

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Organizations in Arizona by assets
RankOrganizationAssets
1BANNER HEALTH$17,653,604,464
2COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH OPERATING INVESTMENT POOL LLC$16,709,046,868
3COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH$9,162,942,703
4DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE$5,261,191,941
5HONORHEALTH$4,846,825,388
6TEAMSTERS WESTERN REGION AND NEW JERSEY HEALTH CARE FUND$4,267,436,147
7PHOENIX CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$2,866,348,652
8COMMUNITY FINANCE CORPORATION$2,151,348,262
9GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY$2,090,273,231
10YUMA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$1,864,145,759

Book value at the end of the year, which is what all three forms report.

Highest reported compensation

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Organizations in Arizona by reported compensation
RankOrganizationReported compensation
1COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH$27,954,468
2COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH FOUNDATION$27,954,468
3DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE$14,175,319
4BANNER HEALTH$13,535,312
5WYOMING MEDICAL CENTER INC$13,535,312
6DIGNITY HEALTH MEDICAL FOUNDATION$6,407,226
7PORT CITY OPERATING COMPANY LLC$5,864,923
8COMMONSPIRIT WASHINGTON$5,754,859
9COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH OPERATING INVESTMENT POOL LLC$5,173,837
10HONORHEALTH$4,422,352

The largest amount an organization here reported paying one person, as reported.

What they do

Organizations in Arizona by NTEE major group
CategoryOrganizations
Education471
Human Services244
Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations242
Health Care229
Arts, Culture and Humanities93
Housing and Shelter89
Community Improvement and Capacity Building78
Recreation and Sports67
Religion-Related65
Animal-Related54

Organizations the IRS never classified do not appear here. A code is assigned at registration and rarely updated, so it describes what an organization said it would do.

Nearest by count

States either side of Arizona by number of organizations
RankStateOrganizations
22South Carolina32,430
24Iowa30,203

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    People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

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    Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

  • Federal obligationsFederal spending

    What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

  • Payments to doctorsHealth

    What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

  • The Arizona Factbook entryAcross the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration hub has no page for a state: CBP publishes by sector and field office, which are its own areas of responsibility rather than a geography, so assigning them to states would be a claim the data does not make. Immigration and the border.

Compared with Iowa.

Full rankings: largest by revenue, largest by assets, and largest grantmakers, and highest reported officer compensation. All organizations: nonprofits.

What this page cannot show

  • The state is the organization’s address of record with the IRS. A national charity registered here operates elsewhere too.
  • Churches need not apply for recognition, so they are under-represented, and the ones here are those that chose to apply.
  • Financial figures exist only for organizations with a Form 990 on record, and each describes whichever year that organization last reported.

Full method at methodology.

Sources

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