Arkansas · Nonprofit
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,877,979 to it, the largest being Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Inc ($3,305,000). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99M
- Funders on record
- 111
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $615M
What Arkansas Children's Foundation does
Mission
We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.continued on schedule o.arkansas children's will fundamentally transform healthcare delivery for the children of arkansas and beyond. Arkansas children's core values are the organizational principles that highlight our regard for each other and those we serve:safety: we are vigilant about creating an error-free environment for patients, families, and team members.teamwork: we demonstrate actionable care and concern for patients, families, and team members.compassion: we coordinate, communicate, cooperate, and collaborate to ensure the highest level of service for our patients, families, and team members.excellence: we achieve the highest of standards and serve with distinction in order to be the best.safety and excellence frame our work. Teamwork and compassion place people at the center of all we do.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Arkansas Children's Foundation is the fundraising arm for arkansas children's, inc. Which includes arkansas children's hospital, arkansas children's research institute, and arkansas children's northwest. The foundation's primary purpose is raising financial support for those entities, thus enhancing patient care, research, education and prevention.
$37,586,268 spentof which $37,586,268 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $37,586,268.
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 $413M to $507M (+23%).
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
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.
Board chair
Jake Nabholz
Board chairman/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $436k → $2.9M.
26 of 111 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 111 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 14% 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
28% 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 48% · 2021 33% · 2022 29% · 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
37% 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
74% 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. $6.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S 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
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION?
- ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,877,979 to it, the largest being Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Inc ($3,305,000). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $23,877,979 in grants to ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION?
- Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,305,000 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 111 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing