Arkansas · Nonprofit
ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION
ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being JEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $671k
What Arkansas Bar Association does
Mission
The purposes of the Arkansas Bar Association include the following: advance the administration of justice; foster and maintain on the part of attorneys high ideals of integrity, learning, competence and public service, and high standards of conduct; encourage the legal profession and its individual members to perform more effectively and efficiently their responsibilities in the public interest; conduct a program of continuing legal education for attorneys; provide a forum for the discussion of subjects pertaining to the practice of law; improve the judicial and legal process, and advance law and order; and encourage practices that improve the honor and dignity of the legal profession.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Annual meeting of membership attended in person by 394 attorneys, with 61 speakers, including arkansas' most prominent lawyers, judges and professors, addressing current legal issues and recent developments in the field of law with 23.5 hours of continuing legal education available to attendees.
Cle programs for the bar year were held in person and virtually. There were 6 professional development seminars offering over 65 hours of continuing legal education on a number of topics, presented to by 93 speakers. In addition, 45 webinars and on-demands were offered totaling 45 hours of continuing legal education, presented to a combined total of 2,259 attendees.
Publication of the arkansas lawyer, a professional magazine for attorneys; 15,276 copies were published in four quarterly issues.
Mock trial competition provided simulated real world trial experience for students from several high schools.the association creates and publishes over a dozen handbooks and legal systems concerning various areas of law practice. Written by experienced attorneys, the publications provide legal forms, relevant law, procedural rules and practical "how to" advice for the practice of law in the specific area covered.arkansasfindalawyer matches attorneys with those needing the services of an attorney. There were over 200 participating attorneys.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $1.6M (+25%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 7% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Karen Hutchins
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Organizations like ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Arkansas Bar Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION: 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 BAR ASSOCIATION?
- ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being JEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION?
- JEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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