Arkansas · Nonprofit
Arkansas Learning Through the Arts
Arkansas Learning Through the Arts (Arkansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,064 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($121,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $219k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $244k
- Net assets
- $81k
What Arkansas Learning Through the Arts does
Mission
Arkansas Learning Through the Arts has the mission to improve student achievement by igniting their interest in learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arkansas Learning Through the Arts places arts programs in classrooms to inspire young people to expand their learning through the arts. The programs support teachers by enhancing the curriculum, lession and subjects they are working on with students. Fifteen contracted professional teaching artists engage students in learning through art forms, e.g creating poetry, writing and performing songs, expressing characters through dance, or drumming rjythmically on African drums. ALTTA offers over 100 unique workshops spanning Pre-K through 12th grade. In the 2024-25 school year ALTTA held programming in 28 schools and libraries and served over 2,900 students in the regular classroms. There is no way to know how many students
$155,887 spent100% of program spendingwere at the libraries whose audience is often students from private schools or who are home-schooled.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $155,887.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $57k to $109k (+90%).
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: 2022 8% · 2023 23% · 2024 26% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of Arkansas Learning Through the Arts’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Karen Bryan
Executive Director
Board chair
Martha Smither
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $26k → $36k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Arkansas Learning Through the Arts’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 Learning Through the Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 Learning Through the Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 76% · 2019 60% · 2020 31% · 2021 91% · 2022 93% · 2023 70% — 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
43% of Arkansas Learning Through the Arts's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
75% of Arkansas Learning Through the Arts's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k 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.
Against its field
Arkansas Learning Through the Arts's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Arkansas Learning Through the Arts
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Arkansas Learning Through the Arts: 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 Learning Through the Arts?
- Arkansas Learning Through the Arts (Arkansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,064 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($121,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Arkansas Learning Through the Arts have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $244,064 in grants to Arkansas Learning Through the Arts, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Arkansas Learning Through the Arts?
- WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $121,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arkansas Learning Through the Arts 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 11 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