Arkansas · Nonprofit
ARKANSAS CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES
ARKANSAS CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES (Arkansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,399,411 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,309,637). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $-185126
What Arkansas Center for Data Sciences does
Mission
Increase number of it, advanced manufacturing, transportation & logistics, healthcare, and energy professionals produced by arkansas educational institutions & employed by arkansas corporations. Our vision is for arkansas to become a global leader in transformation of existing industries through application of data analytics & related computing capabilities involving integration of technology & business skills.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Arkansas Center for Data Sciences (acds) provides services to employers needing specific skills to maintain and grow their businesses. In 2023 acds was asked to continue with the it sector, but also begin to work with employers in advanced manufacturing, transportation & logistics, healthcare, and energy. Acds provides the employers a supplemental staffing strategy using the registered apprenticeship program. At the end of 2024, acds grew the it sector, had significant outcomes in the new sectors, and a growing pipeline. The number of apprentices grew from 388 in 2023 to 710 in 2024, and the number of participating employers grew from 145 in 2023 to 183 in 2024. The acds goal to scale to 400 apprentices and 100 employers has been far exceeded as we write this in november of 2025. The roi for employers, the life changing careers for the apprentices and their families, and the economic impact of the new wages in arkansas is significant. Acds develops the talent applications by assessing, offering free pre-apprenticeship training, resume coaching, and mock interviews. We take the candidates where they are currently and prepare them to be employer ready. Today we have…
$2,778,448 spentof which $7,500 as grants$1,750 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,778,448.
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 2021 to 2022, from $25k to $522k (+2016%).
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: 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 91% · 2021 79% · 2022 86% · 2023 82% · 2024 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ARKANSAS CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Willam R Yoder
Executive director
Board chair
Charles Morgam
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $100k → $526k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES’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 CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 92% — 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
98% of ARKANSAS CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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 CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ARKANSAS CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Labor$2.0M
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 ARKANSAS CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARKANSAS CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES: 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 CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES?
- ARKANSAS CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES (Arkansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,399,411 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,309,637). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARKANSAS CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,399,411 in grants to ARKANSAS CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,309,637 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARKANSAS CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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