Arkansas · Public charity
Arkansas Public School Resource Center
To provide assistance and professional development services to children, parents, faculty and staff of open enrollment, public, charter, and rural schools. To enhance learning, improve education and fiscal practices within school systems.
- $13M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $13M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $574,862
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,648,443
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Arkansas Public School Resource Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $13M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $9.9M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $8.8M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $4.5M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $4.1M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $1.3M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $240k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $216k | 91% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crowley's Ridge Coop | $9,139,806 | 4 | n/a |
| Friendship Aspire Arkansas Inc | $5,245,058 | 7 | 10% |
| Little Scholars of Arkansas Foundation | $3,724,350 | 7 | 2% |
| Responsiveed Texas | $2,711,389 | 6 | 0% |
| Mountainburg School District | $2,498,343 | 4 | n/a |
| Academies at Rivercrest Highschool | $2,469,165 | 4 | n/a |
| Arkansas Military and First Responders Academy | $1,250,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Ams Schools - Arkansas Inc | $1,250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Caddo Academy | $1,249,963 | 4 | n/a |
| Southside School District | $1,249,490 | 5 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crowley's Ridge Coop | $9,139,806 | 4 | n/a |
| Friendship Aspire Arkansas Inc | $5,245,058 | 7 | 10% |
| Little Scholars of Arkansas Foundation | $3,724,350 | 7 | 2% |
| Responsiveed Texas | $2,711,389 | 6 | 0% |
| Mountainburg School District | $2,498,343 | 4 | n/a |
| Academies at Rivercrest Highschool | $2,469,165 | 4 | n/a |
| Arkansas Military and First Responders Academy | $1,250,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Ams Schools - Arkansas Inc | $1,250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Caddo Academy | $1,249,963 | 4 | n/a |
| Southside School District | $1,249,490 | 5 | n/a |
| Centerpoint School District | $1,244,294 | 4 | n/a |
| Future School of Fort Smith | $1,207,209 | 4 | 13% |
| West Wind School for Performing Arts | $1,183,897 | 4 | n/a |
| Newport School District Charitable Foundation Inc | $1,150,427 | 2 | n/a |
| Mountain Home Public Schools | $1,074,653 | 3 | n/a |
| Cave City Middle School | $875,918 | 3 | n/a |
| Academics Plus Charter Schools Inc | $637,082 | 3 | 2% |
| Arkansas Schools for Advanced Studies | $625,000 | 2 | 25% |
| Institute for the Creative Arts | $625,000 | 2 | 46% |
| Garfield Scholars Academy | $582,749 | 2 | n/a |
| Vilonia Pathways Academy | $576,258 | 4 | n/a |
| Batesville School District | $526,959 | 3 | n/a |
| Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter in Dba Everhope Arkansas Inc | $443,264 | 3 | 5% |
| E-Stem High Public Charter Schools Inc | $148,511 | 2 | 1% |
| Scholarmade Achivement Place of Arkansas | $80,000 | 1 | 3% |
| West Fork School District | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stuttgart School District | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Star City School District | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Hamilton School District - 205 Wolf Street Pearcy Ar 71964 | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wynne School District | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kirby School District | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pangburn School District | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| White County Centra School District | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Waldron School District | $28,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clarendon School District | $28,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Augusta School District | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Horatio School District | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lincoln Consolidated School District 48 | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Decatur School District | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lakeside School District - Garland | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cossatot River School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Malvern School and Community Health and Wellness Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Exalt Academy of Southwest Little Rock | $5,162 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Arkansas Public School Resource Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Share Our Strength · Environmental and Spatial Technology Inc · Arkansas STEM Coalition · Save The Children Federation Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Arkansas Public School Resource Center with peer funders
About Arkansas Public School Resource Center
- How much does Arkansas Public School Resource Center give?
- Arkansas Public School Resource Center reported 16 itemized grants totaling $12,558,519, out of $12,960,679 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arkansas Public School Resource Center fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are Arkansas Public School Resource Center's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Crowley's Ridge Coop ($9.1M), Friendship Aspire Arkansas Inc ($5.2M), Little Scholars of Arkansas Foundation ($3.7M).
- Does Arkansas Public School Resource Center fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arkansas Public School Resource Center?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Share Our Strength, Environmental and Spatial Technology Inc.
- Where is Arkansas Public School Resource Center based?
- Arkansas Public School Resource Center is based in AR.
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