Arkansas · Nonprofit
ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION
ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $654,829 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($300,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $865k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $655k
- Net assets
- $289k
What Arkansas Council on Economic Education does
Mission
To equip prek-12 schools with standard-based resources and professional development to teach economics, personal finance and the free enterprise system using practical, innovative and inspirational methods.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Teacher professional development: k-12 educators in arkansas are required to obtain 36 hours per year of professional development training, and we are certified by the arkansas department of education to provide these hours through workshops and in-service training opportunities both in-person and virtual. We host multi-day workshops in the summer, plus 1-6 hour trainings during the school year. We partner with a variety of entities to provide engaging, creative and user-friendly resources to assist teachers with integrating economic, personal finance and entrepreneurship concepts into their classrooms no matter what grade level or subject matter they teach. To learn more, visit www.economicsarkansas.org.
$517,310 spentof which $70,490 as grants$21,000 earned by the program60% of program spendingThe stock market game(tm): this investment simulation is offered each school year to students in grades 4 - 12. We host two 13-week sessions, one in the fall and one in the spring. In addition, we offer a yearlong session from september through april. Teachers register student teams to manage and trade "live" a hypothetical $100,000 portfolio of stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Their goal is to grow the portfolio as much as possible during the session for which they registered. This standards-based "game" integrates technology, math, social studies, higher-level thinking, team building, and of course, economics into one engaging learning tool for teachers. This program served 16,330 students last year. An extension of this program is an essay-writing contest called "investwrite" where students submit responses to a given investment question. Arkansas is proud to have both state and national winners in this program. This program is free of charge to teachers via the generous sponsorships of walton family foundation and arkansas securities department.
$126,360 spent$5,730 earned by the program15% of program spendingAdditional initiatives offered by economics arkansas include cee/naee dues, public relations, teacher awards program, resource extender support, student and family programs, new and other program enterprises.cee/naee dues allow discounts on economic education materials, priority access to regional and national conferences, award opportunities and occasions to participate in national program opportunities.economics arkansas utilizes part of its public relations budget to support teacher and student presentations. Also included are memberships to professional organizations such as arkansas association of educational administrators and chambers of commerce within the state. They serve as resources for promotion of materials and services we make available to arkansas educational institutions.teachers may submit classroom projects via written application for the opportunity win a state award, including a cash award and the coveted "bessie" statue.while economics arkansas operates with a small staff, we are fortunate to have multiple "resource extenders" of master economic teachers (mets) and centers for economic education. Mets are classroom educators who have participated in our…
$62,941 spent7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$156,884 spent18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $863,495.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $851k (−27%).
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 46% · 2018 45% · 2019 40% · 2020 57% · 2021 52% · 2022 47% · 2023 48% · 2024 35% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kathleen Lawson
Executive director
Board chair
Heather Jones
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $15k → $122k.
3 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $720k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Economics Arkansas Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION’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 COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 58% · 2020 34% · 2021 56% · 2022 72% · 2023 57% — 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
27% of ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
84% of ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Economics Arkansas Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION?
- ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $654,829 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($300,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $654,829 in grants to ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION 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 25 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