Virginia · Nonprofit
AR2 INC
AR2 INC (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,443,000 to it, the largest being The Concord Fund ($628,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $170k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $170k
What Ar2 Inc does
Mission
Ar2, an issues-based 501(c)4 organization dedicated to promoting conservative issues through cutting-edge research, aims to help shape the public policy debate across the country.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Ar2 is a unique platform for in-depth research and targeted communications on policy issues currently being debated to better explain positions often ignored in the national discussion.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $135k (−91%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Clay Bartel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $40k → $100k.
From the IRS filings of AR2 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AR2 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AR2 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 41% · 2019 81% · 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
0% of AR2 INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2022, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
66% of AR2 INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like AR2 INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AR2 INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AR2 INC?
- AR2 INC (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,443,000 to it, the largest being The Concord Fund ($628,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AR2 INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,443,000 in grants to AR2 INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AR2 INC?
- The Concord Fund is the largest funder on record, with $628,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AR2 INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing