Arkansas · Nonprofit
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,492,476 to it, the largest being The JE and LE Mabee Foundation Inc ($2,980,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,338 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,338 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Vogel Schwartz Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Andshared funders
- Arms Wide Open Childhood Cancer Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
42% of ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $436k → $2.9M.
25 of 108 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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: $52M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arkansas Children's Hospital). These are real filings, and they are not money ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 108 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 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders 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 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 28% · 2019 40% · 2020 11% · 2021 33% · 2022 14% · 2023 21% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
66% of ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 108 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Vogel Schwartz Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchAR · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Andshared fundersTX · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- Arms Wide Open Childhood Cancer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Torch Relay for Children's Miracle Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Jude Children's Research Hospital Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Evan's Victory Against Neuroblastoma Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
- Muscular Dystrophy Association Incshared fundersIL · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- Excellerate Foundation Charitable SupportlocalAR · funds 54 organizations near you
- Heart of Arkansas United WaylocalAR · funds 57 organizations near you
- Excellerate FoundationlocalAR · funds 30 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Arkansas Children's Inc · exempt
- Arkansas Children's Hospital · exempt
- Arkansas Children's Research Institute · exempt
- Arkansas Children's Hospital Auxiliary · exempt
- Arkansas Children's Northwest · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION?
- ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,492,476 to it, the largest being The JE and LE Mabee Foundation Inc ($2,980,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 108 organizations giving $19,492,476 in grants to ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION?
- The JE and LE Mabee Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,980,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S 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 108funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing