Arkansas · Nonprofit
ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY
ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY (Arkansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $851,759 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($519,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $852k
- Net assets
- $795k
What Arkansas Arts Academy does
Mission
The mission is to provide a rigourous academic program with a purposed integration of the arts. Challenging our students academically while providing them with an arts enchanced curriculum.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Approximantely 1220 students attend Arkansas Arts Academy. Students continue to meet or exceed state standard testing scores. Students are encouraged to challenge themselves and continue to grow in their academic studies. Parents and teachers work together to assist students enrolled in ap classes to meet the demands and complete them successfully.
$10,943,431 spent$10,669,446 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,943,431.
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 2018 to 2019, from $5.7M to $1.1M (−80%).
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.
5% of ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Allison Roberts
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $56k → $160k.
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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $790k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arkansas Arts Academy Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY raised.
From the IRS filings of ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 11 funders by total. 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
ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — 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
67% of ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Bccso LLC · disregarded
- Arkansas Arts Academy Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY: 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 ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY?
- ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY (Arkansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $851,759 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($519,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $851,759 in grants to ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $519,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY 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 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