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FOUNTAIN HILLS CULTURAL AND CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC
Fountain Hills, AZ · EIN 860358244 · Form 990 · FY2022 · NTEE A23 · Arts, Culture & Humanities · Small ($100K-$1M) · ilovefountainhills.org
revenue
$141K
expenses
$141K
net assets
$214K
employees
0
volunteers
720
program ratio
70%
mission · from form 990

FHCCA primary purpose is to develop, promote, and operate programs and activities that will preserve and enhance cultural, civic, educational, and social qualities with the Town of Fountain Hills.

profile · synthesized from sources

The Fountain Hills Cultural & Civic Association (FHCCA) is an Arizona-based organization that supports cultural, civic, educational, and social programs in Fountain Hills. It provides infrastructure services like 501(c)(3) status, accounting, and marketing to member organizations and programs, enabling them to operate and serve the community. Founded in 1978, FHCCA aims to enhance the quality of life in Fountain Hills.

irs program accomplishments · form 990 part iii · fy2022

what they reported doing

Program narrative the organization filed with the IRS. Ordered by program spending.

  1. #1 primary $14K
    The non-audition Community Chorus was founded in 1991 by a group of Fountain Hills residents. It is a four-part harmony ensemble and is open to all who love to sing and desire to grow musically. The Fountain Hills Community Chorus entertains its audiences with beautiful choral music while providing an enjoyable musical experience for its members. The non-audition chorus sings in four-part harmony and is open to anyone who loves to sing. The ability to read music is not required. The Chorus performs two Winter Holiday concerts and two Spring concerts each year.
  2. #2 $11K
    The Fountain Hills Community Garden is a gathering place where residents can learn to garden, grow healthy produce, connect with nature, stay physically active and build social interactions. The organic fruits and vegetables grown in the garden can be donated to food banks, shelters, and help underserved families. Over the course of three years, dozens of volunteers have enthusiastically worked to create a nurturing garden space where we build a sense of community, provide gardening lessons for children and adults, and grow nutritious, organic produce while beautifying our town. Our garden now includes: 117 leased beds 6 ADA beds 5 Food Bank donation beds Greenhouse and work area 2 garden sheds Beehive enclosure with 3-4 hives 6 compost bins Shaded pavilion and farm to table demonstration area
named programs · 19 · from sources

what they call their work

AED Project
A member program supported by FHCCA.
Blue Zone Fountain Hills
A member program supported by FHCCA.
Civic Affairs
Promotes civic involvement of residents in Fountain Hills, particularly voter participation in local elections, and hosts candidate forums.
Community Band
Provides a local source of concert band music for the enjoyment of Fountain Hills and surrounding communities, supporting patriotic groups and local holiday/celebratory activities.
Community Chorus
A member program supported by FHCCA.
Community Garden
A member program supported by FHCCA.
Encore for More!
A member program supported by FHCCA.
Fountain Hills Women’s Club
A member program supported by FHCCA.
Fountain Of Light
A project commemorating the 50th anniversary of the town's iconic fountain with a new glass spire sculpture.
Greening of Downtown
A volunteer-led initiative to improve the aesthetic of Downtown Fountain Hills, responding to the town's Downtown Vision Plan.
In-Home Concerts
A member program supported by FHCCA.
Juried Art Show
Partners with the Fountain Hills Art League to sponsor an annual art competition for local artists.
Leadership Academy
Develops a new generation of potential community leaders in Fountain Hills.
Munch and Music
A member program supported by FHCCA.
Non-Profit Network
Connects local nonprofit leaders for networking and provides infrastructure support to member organizations.
Pilot Pumphouse Project
An outreach program to local and regional artists to bring fresh artistic approaches to Fountain Park annually.
Poinsettia Tree
A member program supported by FHCCA, involving the distribution of poinsettia plants in December.
Public Art Committee
A member program supported by FHCCA, involved in bringing new sculptures and art to the public art collection.
Vision Fountain Hills
A member program supported by FHCCA.
activities · 10 groups

what they do

  • Community Event Calendar Management 9 activities
    • Community Event Infrastructure Support
      Provides infrastructure services to 16 member programs and organizations to support community events and activities, and maintains a public Google calendar for community events.
    • Community Event Infrastructure Support
      Provides infrastructure services to 16 member programs and organizations to support community events and activities, and maintains a public Google calendar for community events.
    • Maintain Community Event Calendar
      Maintains a public Google calendar to inform the community about local events.
    • Maintain a public community events calendar
      Maintains a public Google calendar for community events in Fountain Hills.
    • Maintain a public community events calendar
      Maintains a public Google calendar for community events in Fountain Hills.
    • Provide Infrastructure Services to Member Programs
      Provides infrastructure services to 16 member programs and organizations to support community events and activities.
    • Provide infrastructure services for community events
      Provides infrastructure services to 16 member programs and organizations to support community events and activities, and maintains a public Google calendar for community events.
    • Provide infrastructure services to member organizations
      Provides infrastructure services to 16 member programs and organizations to support community events and activities.
    • Provide infrastructure services to member organizations
      Provides infrastructure services to 16 member programs and organizations to support community events and activities.
  • Adult Community Choir & Ensemble Programs 8 activities
    • Community Music Programs
      Operates a non-audition four-part harmony community chorus that performs two Winter Holiday concerts and two Spring concerts annually, and provides concert band music performances for residents of Fountain Hills and nearby areas. This includes regular rehearsals, public concert events, and participation in local holiday and celebratory events.
    • Community Music Programs
      Operates a non-audition four-part harmony community chorus that performs two Winter Holiday concerts and two Spring concerts annually, and provides concert band music performances for residents of Fountain Hills and nearby areas. This includes regular rehearsals, public concert events, and participation in local holiday and celebratory events.
    • Operate Community Band
      Established the Fountain Hills Community Band in 2009 and provides concert band music performances for residents of Fountain Hills and nearby areas.
    • Operate Community Chorus
      Operates a non-audition four-part harmony community chorus that conducts regular rehearsals and performs two Winter Holiday concerts and two Spring concerts annually, as well as participating in local holiday and celebratory events.
    • Operate a community band
      Operates the Fountain Hills Community Band, which performs concert band music for residents of Fountain Hills and nearby areas and participates in local holiday and celebratory events.
    • Operate a community chorus
      Operates a non-audition four-part harmony community chorus that conducts regular rehearsals and performs two Winter Holiday concerts and two Spring concerts annually, as well as organizing and scheduling public concert events.
    • Operate a community chorus and band
      Operates a non-audition four-part harmony community chorus that performs two Winter Holiday concerts and two Spring concerts annually, and established the Fountain Hills Community Band as a community partner in 2009 to provide concert band music performances.
    • Operate community musical groups and performances
      Operates a non-audition four-part harmony community chorus that performs two Winter Holiday concerts and two Spring concerts annually, and provides concert band music performances for residents of Fountain Hills and nearby areas. The organization also conducts regular rehearsals and participates in local holiday and celebratory events through musical performances.
  • Garden-Based Education Programs 7 activities
    • Community Garden Program
      Operates a community garden with 117 leased beds, 6 ADA beds, 5 food bank donation beds, a greenhouse, and other facilities, growing nutritious, organic produce for donation to food banks, shelters, and underserved families, and providing gardening lessons for children and adults.
    • Community Garden Program
      Operates a community garden with 117 leased beds, 6 ADA beds, 5 food bank donation beds, a greenhouse, beehives, compost bins, and a shaded pavilion. The garden grows nutritious, organic produce for donation to food banks, shelters, and underserved families, and provides gardening lessons for children and adults.
    • Community Garden Program
      Operates a community garden with 117 leased beds, 6 ADA beds, 5 food bank donation beds, a greenhouse, beehives, and compost bins. The garden grows nutritious, organic produce for donation to food banks, shelters, and underserved families, and provides gardening lessons for children and adults.
    • Community Garden Program
      Operates a community garden with 117 leased beds, 6 ADA beds, 5 food bank donation beds, a greenhouse, and other facilities. The program grows nutritious, organic produce for donation to food banks, shelters, and underserved families, and provides gardening lessons for children and adults.
    • Operate Community Garden
      Operates a community garden with 117 leased beds, 6 ADA beds, 5 food bank donation beds, a greenhouse, and other facilities, growing nutritious, organic produce for donation to food banks, shelters, and underserved families.
    • Operate a community garden
      Operates a community garden with 117 leased beds, 6 ADA beds, 5 food bank donation beds, a greenhouse, two garden sheds, a beehive enclosure, 6 compost bins, and a shaded pavilion with a farm-to-table demonstration area. The garden grows nutritious, organic produce for donation to food banks, shelters, and underserved families, and provides gardening lessons for children and adults.
    • Provide Gardening Education
      Provides gardening lessons for children and adults.
  • Urban Green Space Development 7 activities
    • Create Legacy Plaza and Plant Trees
      Created the Joe & Marge Brown Legacy Plaza and commemorative columns, and planted 165 trees in Fountain Park.
    • Downtown Beautification Projects
      Initiated the "Greening of Downtown" project in 2009, adding over $300,000 in improvements to the downtown area through private donations and grants. This includes landscaping for Centennial Circle, enhancing vacant lots, creating Disc Golf sidewalk buffer landscape zones, maintaining island green areas, providing landscaping for the performance pad, and creating various gardens (Sonoran cactus, butterfly and hummingbird, low-water demonstration).
    • Downtown beautification and landscaping projects
      Initiated the "Greening of Downtown" project in 2009, adding over $300,000 in improvements through private donations and grants. Projects include landscaping for Centennial Circle, enhancing 7 downtown vacant lots, creating Disc Golf sidewalk buffer landscape zones, maintaining island green areas, providing landscaping and planters for the performance pad, creating a Sonoran cactus garden, a butterfly and hummingbird garden, a low-water demonstration garden, and planting 165 trees in Fountain Park. The organization also created the Joe & Marge Brown Legacy Plaza and commemorative columns and commissioned a new glass spire sculpture for the public art collection.
    • Downtown beautification and landscaping projects
      Initiated the "Greening of Downtown" project in 2009 to improve the appearance of downtown Fountain Hills, adding over $300,000 in improvements through private donations and grants, including landscaping for Centennial Circle, enhancing vacant lots, creating Disc Golf sidewalk buffer zones, maintaining island green areas, providing landscaping for the performance pad, creating various gardens (Sonoran cactus, butterfly and hummingbird, low-water demonstration), establishing the Joe & Marge Brown Legacy Plaza, and planting 165 trees in Fountain Park.
    • Downtown beautification projects
      Initiated the "Greening of Downtown" project in 2009 to improve the appearance of downtown Fountain Hills, adding over $300,000 in improvements through private donations and grants. This includes landscaping for Centennial Circle, enhancing landscaping of 7 downtown vacant lots, creating Disc Golf sidewalk buffer landscape zones, maintaining island green areas, providing landscaping and planters for the performance pad, creating a Sonoran cactus garden, a butterfly and hummingbird garden, a low-water demonstration garden, creating the Joe & Marge Brown Legacy Plaza and commemorative columns, and planting 165 trees in Fountain Park.
    • Public Art and Downtown Beautification
      Initiated the "Greening of Downtown" project in 2009, adding over $300,000 in improvements to the downtown area through private donations and grants. This includes landscaping for Centennial Circle, enhancing vacant lots, creating Disc Golf sidewalk buffer zones, maintaining island green areas, providing landscaping for the performance pad, creating various gardens (Sonoran cactus, butterfly and hummingbird, low-water demonstration), creating the Joe & Marge Brown Legacy Plaza, planting 165 trees in Fountain Park, commissioning a glass spire sculpture, and sponsoring the Juried Art Show.
    • Public Art and Downtown Beautification
      Initiated the "Greening of Downtown" project in 2009, adding over $300,000 in improvements to the downtown area. This includes landscaping projects such as Centennial Circle, downtown vacant lots, Disc Golf sidewalk buffer zones, island green areas, performance pad landscaping, and the creation of various gardens (Sonoran cactus, butterfly and hummingbird, low-water demonstration). The organization also commissioned a new glass spire sculpture for the public art collection and planted 165 trees in Fountain Park.
  • Local Candidate and Issue Forums 6 activities
    • Candidate and Bond Forums
      Hosts candidate forums for local school and sanitary district board elections and special forums for bond elections.
    • Candidate and Bond Forums
      Hosts candidate forums for local school and sanitary district board elections and special forums for bond elections.
    • Host Candidate and Bond Forums
      Hosts candidate forums for local school and sanitary district board elections and special forums for bond elections.
    • Host candidate and bond forums
      Hosts candidate forums for Fountain Hills United School District Board Elections and Fountain Hills Sanitary District Board Elections, and held special forums for bond elections in 2013 and 2017.
    • Host candidate and bond forums
      Hosts candidate forums for Fountain Hills United School District Board Elections and Fountain Hills Sanitary District Board Elections, and held special forums for bond elections in 2013 and 2017.
    • Host candidate and bond forums
      Hosts candidate forums for local school and sanitary district board elections and special forums for bond elections.
  • Youth Civic Leadership Development 4 activities
    • Establish Leadership Academy
      Established a Leadership Academy in 2016 to develop new community leaders.
    • Establish a Leadership Academy
      Established a Leadership Academy in 2016 to develop new community leaders.
    • Leadership Academy
      Established a Leadership Academy in 2016 to develop new community leaders.
    • Leadership Academy
      Established a Leadership Academy in 2016 to develop new community leaders.
  • Nonprofit Formation & Incubation 4 activities
    • Establish Nonprofit Network
      Established a Nonprofit Network in 2019 to connect local nonprofit leaders.
    • Establish a Nonprofit Network
      Established a Nonprofit Network in 2019 to connect local nonprofit leaders.
    • Nonprofit Network
      Established a Nonprofit Network in 2019 to connect local nonprofit leaders.
    • Nonprofit Network
      Established a Nonprofit Network in 2019 to connect local nonprofit leaders.
  • Member-Focused Newsletter Publishing 3 activities
    • Distribute Monthly Newsletter
      Distributes a monthly newsletter to members to update them on community activities.
    • Distribute a monthly newsletter
      Distributes a monthly newsletter to members to update them on community activities.
    • Distribute monthly newsletter
      Distributes a monthly newsletter to members to update them on community activities.
  • Orchestral and Choral Concert Performances 1 activity
    • Organize Public Concerts
      Organizes and schedules public concert events at the Fountain Hills Community Center, including spring concerts and events in December 2025 and early 2026.
  • Uncategorized 15 activities
    • AED Project
      Initiated the AED Project in 2003 to place Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in Fountain Hills public facilities.
    • AED Project
      Operates the AED Project, which started in 2003 to bring Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) to Fountain Hills and has placed them in public facilities.
    • AED Project
      Operates the AED Project, initiated in 2003, to bring Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) to Fountain Hills and place them in public facilities.
    • AED Project
      Operates the AED Project, started in 2003, to place Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in Fountain Hills public facilities.
    • AED Project
      Operates the AED Project, initiated in 2003, to place Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in Fountain Hills public facilities.
    • AED Project
      Operates the AED Project, initiated in 2003, to place Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in Fountain Hills public facilities.
    • Commission Public Art
      Commissioned local artist Brian Schader to create a new glass spire sculpture for the public art collection to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Fountain.
    • Commission public art
      Commissioned local artist Brian Schader to create a new glass spire sculpture for the public art collection to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Fountain.
    • Commission public art
      Commissioned local artist Brian Schader to create a new glass spire sculpture for the public art collection to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Fountain.
    • Operate Pilot Pump House Pilot Program
      Operates the Pilot Pump House Pilot Program, an annual artistic outreach program in Fountain Park.
    • Operate the Pilot Pump House Pilot Program
      Operates the Pilot Pump House Pilot Program, an annual artistic outreach program in Fountain Park.
    • Operate the Pilot Pump House Pilot Program
      Operates the Pilot Pump House Pilot Program, an annual artistic outreach program in Fountain Park.
    • Pilot Pump House Pilot Program
      Operates the Pilot Pump House Pilot Program, an annual artistic outreach program in Fountain Park.
    • Sponsor Juried Art Show
      Sponsored the 2021 Juried Art Show in partnership with the Fountain Hills Art League.
    • Sponsor art shows
      Sponsored the 2021 Juried Art Show in partnership with the Fountain Hills Art League.
financials · form 990 · fy2022
revenue
Total revenue$141K
Contributions & grants$108K76%
Program service revenue$30K21%
Investment income$3K2%
Other revenue$627
expenses
Total expenses$141K
Program expenses70%
Admin / overhead28%
Fundraising2%
Salaries & benefits$0
Grants paid out$3K
Largest expense lineProfessional Fees
balance sheet
Total assets$214K
Cash$137K
Investments$77K
Liabilities$0
Net assets$214K
Liquid reserves18.2 mo
3 years on record · 2020–2022 · YoY revenue -43.9%
leadership · form 990 part vii · fy2022

who runs it

board members · 23
  • Anita Glenister — Secretary
  • Barbara Higgins — Director
  • Bill Pape — Director
  • Carol Coates — Director
  • Debbie Fisher — Director
  • Dori Wittrig — Past President
  • Gail Pape — Director
  • Jean Linzer — Director
  • Jenny Willigrod — Director
  • Jerry Butler — Director
  • Jessamyn Clark — Director
  • Larry Cole — Director
  • Laurie Porter — Director
  • Mark Dalton — Treasurer
  • Michael Pameditis — Director
  • Mike Hoops — Director
  • Rita Applegate — Director
  • Roger Riggert — Director
  • Sandi Thompson — Director
  • Sharon Vandenberg — Director
  • Tammy Bell — President
  • Tiffany McVeety — Director
  • Vicky Derksen — Director
relationships · 19

who they work with

  • Arizona State Forestry Division Funder — Received $15,000 in donations.
  • BIP, LLC Partner — Sponsor of the Annual Member's Dinner.
  • Chamber of Commerce Partner — Partnered with the local Chamber of Commerce to present Mayoral and Town Council forums.
  • Facebook Partner — Uses Facebook as a platform for public outreach and community engagement.
  • Fountain Hills Art League Partner — Partnered to sponsor the 2021 Juried Art Show.
  • Fountain Hills Chamber of Commerce Partner — Sponsor of the Annual Member's Dinner.
  • Fountain Hills Community Band Partner — Community partner organization founded under the auspices of the Fountain Hills Cultural and Civic Association.
  • Fountain Hills Community Foundation Funder — Received $7,500 in donations.
  • Fountain Hills Community Garden Partner — The Fountain Hills Cultural & Civic Association operates the Fountain Hills Community Garden.
  • Fountain Hills Cultural & Civic Association Network — Hosts and supports the Community Chorus as part of its cultural programming.
  • Fountain Hills Fire Department Partner — Inspects and maintains AEDs under their Public Access Defibrillator (PAD) program.
  • Fountain Hills Leadership Academy Partner — Geoff Yazzetta, a board member representing Civic Affairs, is a graduate of the Fountain Hills Leadership Academy.
  • Google Partner — Utilizes Google Calendar to distribute community event information
  • Joe & Marge Brown Family Estate Funder — Received $65,000 in donations.
  • Republic Services Funder — Received a $10,000 grant.
  • SRP Funder — Served as lead sponsor for Mayoral and Town Council forums.
  • Salt River Project Funder — Received $10,000 in donations.
  • The Dark Sky Association Partner — Collaborated on an event to view the night sky during the Annual Member's Dinner.
  • Town of Fountain Hills Funder — Received $15,000 for initial plans.