Arkansas · Nonprofit
ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION
ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,250 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $343k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Arkansas Bar Foundation does
Mission
See schedule othe exempt purpose of the Arkansas Bar Foundation is to promote the following educational, literary, scientific and charitable purposes: to improve and facilitate the administration of justice; to promote study and research in the field of law; the diffusion of knowledge thereof; and the continuing education of lawyers; to cause to be published and to distribute addresses, reports, treatises and other literary works on legal subjects and to acquire, preserve and exhibit rare books and documents, objects of art, and items of historical interest having legal significance or bearing on the administration of justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Funded special projects to improve the administration of justice, promote the study of law, enhance the judicial process, and promote professionalism among arkansas attorneys. Projects include funding educational programs for the arkansas bar association annual meeting; support for arkansas bar association mock trial competitions for high school students; continuing education of lawyers; and partial funding for a rural practice incubator project, and free legal answers project of arkansas access to justice foundation. U of a delta initiative constitution day and arkansas mock trial foundation, inc.
$87,057 spentof which $6,349 as grants43% of program spendingApproximately fifty scholarships provided for law students at the university of arkansas and university of arkansas at little rock.
$80,619 spentof which $66,649 as grants40% of program spendingProvided two professorships at university of arkansas law schools.
$19,795 spentof which $18,550 as grants10% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$13,225 spentof which $850 as grants7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $200,696.
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. 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 $5.7M to $6.4M (+11%).
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 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Ann Dixon Pyle
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $20k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 FOUNDATION’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
ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
54% 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 BAR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 83% · 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.
Where its funders are
54% of ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION'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. Of the $17k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Arkansas Bar Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION: 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 FOUNDATION?
- ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,250 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $37,250 in grants to ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION?
- ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION 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.
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 4 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