Texas · Nonprofit
ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS
ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,439,354 to it, the largest being Christus Spohn Health System DEVELOPMENT FND ($1,827,544). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What Ark-Tex Council of Governments does
Mission
To improve the quality of life of the Ark-Tex Council of Governments area on behalf of its member governmental organizations by providing a regional perspective on information and problem solving and by coordinating funding, resources, programs and services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Housing services - provides housing rental and utility assistance for low income families
$14,881,936 spentof which $10,097,797 as grants54% of program spendingTransportation programs - programs to provide transportation to medical appointments, grocery stores, work or school for low income individuals.
$4,524,855 spentof which $162,598 as grants$89,115 earned by the program17% of program spendingAging services - programs to assist individuals over the age of 60 with home health services, nutritious meals, nutrition education, home repairs, legal assistance, medications, help aids, adult day care, and other appropriate services for older americans.
$2,326,205 spent$283,383 earned by the program9% of program spendingEmergency communications - programs to assist local governments in establishing and maintaining 911 servicesenvironmental quality - programs to assist local governments with solid waste disposal programsgeneral government - programs to assist and train local government officials in obtaining information and problem solving skills necessary to improve the quality of life for their citizenscriminal justice - programs to assist local law enforcement agencies with equipment and training necessary to aid in law enforcementhomeland security - programs to prepare local law enforcement agencies for terrorism and other security threats
$5,621,342 spentof which $2,683,044 as grants$1,182 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,354,338.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $9.2M to $13M (+42%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 87% · 2022 90% · 2023 89% · 2024 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $255k → $636k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS’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
ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 64% · 2019 44% · 2020 71% · 2021 33% · 2022 75% · 2023 66% — diversifying over time.
“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
63% of ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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 FY2023, 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
100% of ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 269 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$1.0M
- Department of Agriculture$982k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$751k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Northeast Texas Ecomonic Development District · exempt
- Ark-Tex Regional Development Company · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS: 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 ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS?
- ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,439,354 to it, the largest being Christus Spohn Health System DEVELOPMENT FND ($1,827,544). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $3,439,354 in grants to ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS?
- Christus Spohn Health System DEVELOPMENT FND is the largest funder on record, with $1,827,544 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 11 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