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ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION INC

ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,823,551 to it, the largest being The Ross Foundation ($3,166,383). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$5.8M
Net assets
$3.9M
2/2 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Arkadelphia Promise Foundation Inc does

Mission

The goal of the arkadelphia promise scholarship is to increase the college-going rate for local students, reduce the number of students dropping out of college for financial reasons and provide for a more educated workforce. The arkadelphia promise is a game-changing effort helping to make a college education not just a dream, but a reality for every child in arkadelphia. A college degree is a passport to future prosperity for individuals and an educated workforce makes arkadelphia a more attractive community in which to locate a business.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The goal of the arkadelphia promise scholarship is to increase the college-going rate for local students, reduce the number of students dropping out of college for financial reasons and provide for a more educated workforce. The arkadelphia promise is a game-changing effort helping to make a college education not just a dream, but a reality for every child in arkadelphia. A college degree is a passport to future prosperity for individuals and an educated workforce makes arkadelphia a more attractive community in which to locate a business.

    $445,110 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $445,110.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($478k) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 61 ($641k) Expenses 93 ($445k) Net assets 110 ($2.1M)2019 Revenue 80 ($842k) Expenses 104 ($499k) Net assets 128 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 72 ($763k) Expenses 106 ($504k) Net assets 141 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 43 ($454k) Expenses 105 ($500k) Net assets 139 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 55 ($579k) Expenses 114 ($544k) Net assets 141 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 71 ($745k) Expenses 123 ($590k) Net assets 149 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 90 ($955k) Expenses 114 ($545k) Net assets 170 ($3.3M)2025 Revenue 112 ($1.2M) Expenses 119 ($568k) Net assets 202 ($3.9M)
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Revenue (112)Expenses (119)Net assets (202)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3.3M to $3.9M (+19%).

$1.9M
$2.1M
$2.5M
$2.7M
$2.7M
$2.7M
$2.9M
$3.3M
$3.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

80% of ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$579k
’17
$197k
’18
$344k
’19
$259k
’20
−$46k
’21
$35k
’22
$156k
’23
$410k
’24
$612k
’25
82
months of
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.

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Listed777777777
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $684k.

Funder
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total
funders
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2

From the IRS filings of ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION 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

ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

46% 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 ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION INC.

54%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 51% · 2019 51% · 2020 51% · 2021 51% · 2022 51% · 2023 51% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Arkansas out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin52% · top quartile
Months of reserve82.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION 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 Arkansas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION INC?
ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,823,551 to it, the largest being The Ross Foundation ($3,166,383). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,823,551 in grants to ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION INC?
The Ross Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,166,383 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARKADELPHIA PROMISE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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