Arkansas · Nonprofit
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,874,006 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($2,181,791). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $144M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $175M
What Arkansas Children's Northwest Inc 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 northwest (acnw) is a pediatric hospital located in springdale, arkansas that opened on february 27, 2018. The hospital includes inpatient beds, emergency care, diagnostic services and clinic space. The 37-acre campus includes nature trails and gardens for patients and their families. During the year ended june 30, 2025, acnw's utilization was as follows: 4,715 admissions with an average stay of 1.97 days; 8,624 patient days; 23.6 average daily census; 92,768 outpatient visits, excluding er visits which were 46,164; and 6,749 surgeries. Continued on schedule o.acnw, the first and only pediatric hospital in the northwest arkansas region, is a level iv pediatric trauma center. Acnw operates an inpatient unit that will expand in 2026; a surgical unit with five operating rooms; outpatient clinics offering over 20 subspecialties; diagnostic services; imaging capabilities; occupational therapy services; and northwest arkansas' only pediatric emergency department.
$111,262,879 spentof which $11,253,639 as grants$125,463,453 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $111,262,879.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $233M to $249M (+7%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 12% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Marcella Doderer
President and CEO
Board chair
Noel White
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $25 → $167k.
8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $94M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arkansas Children's Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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 NORTHWEST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 79% · 2021 79% · 2022 81% · 2023 96% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
100% of ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $673k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 NORTHWEST INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Arkansas Children's Inc · exempt
- Arkansas Children's Hospital · exempt
- Arkansas Children's Foundation · exempt
- Arkansas Children's Research Institute · exempt
- Arkansas Children's Hospital Auxiliary · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC?
- ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,874,006 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($2,181,791). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,874,006 in grants to ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC?
- WAL-MART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,181,791 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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