Arkansas · Nonprofit
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Arkansas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,391,706 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($6,072,427). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Arkansas Children's Research Institute does
Mission
The vision of Arkansas Children's Research Institute is to be a leader in cutting-edge research that improves the health and well-being of children and their families. In support of this vision, Arkansas Children's Research Institute aims to (1) recruit and retain highly qualified scientists; (2) provide an exceptional environment for research; (3) seek and obtain appropriate funding for research; (4) manage and leverage resources to succeed in its mission; (5) support transfer of discoveries to industry to create jobs in arkansas; (6) form productive collaborations with other institutions, especially those in arkansas; (7) promote a strong research capability to support recruitment of the best possible physicians for the campus; and (8) serve as a key learning laboratory for various trainees to learn the disciplines and methodologies of research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During fy25, Arkansas Children's Research Institute (acri) received almost $70 million in grants and contracts from federal, state, and private agencies, industry sponsors, and philanthropic donations to support research to advance knowledge that will guide the way injury and illness are prevented and treated in children. Of the grants received, approximately one-third was from the national institute of health. In 2025, acri held the groundbreaking for the national center for opioid research & clinical effectiveness (ncor). Ncor will position arkansas as a national leader in understanding the impacts of the opioid crisis on the fetus, newborn, and developing children. In addition, acri established a new critical care laboratory designed as an animal intensive care unit to provide clinical care just as a human patient would receive in the icu to support translational research, including projects involving sepsis, trauma, inflammation, and organ injury. Acri also expanded existing research core facilities including its metabolomics and analytical chemistry core. Overall, acri provided the research infrastructure to over 150 researchers who published their scientific findings in over…
$53,257,615 spentof which $195,082 as grants$450,793 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $53,257,615.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $60M to $83M (+39%).
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: 2017 64% · 2018 66% · 2019 65% · 2020 69% · 2021 66% · 2022 69% · 2023 71% · 2024 66% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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/CEO-ar children's
Board chair
Rick Barr Md
EVP/ccao/chair (part yr)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $649k → $2.2M.
2 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $55M from 2 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE’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 CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 47% · 2019 26% · 2020 30% · 2021 48% · 2022 52% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $164k 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.
Government funding ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $182.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$117.3M
- Department of Agriculture$62.0M
- National Science Foundation$1.8M
- Department of Defense$847k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$150k
- Corporation for National and Community Service$70k
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 CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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 Hospital Auxiliary · exempt
- Arkansas Children's Northwest · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Arkansas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,391,706 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($6,072,427). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $12,391,706 in grants to ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $6,072,427 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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 30 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