Arkansas · Nonprofit
ARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION
ARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $387,681 to it, the largest being GEORGE H DUNKLIN JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($155,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $122k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $388k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Arkansas Policy Foundation does
Mission
The Arkansas Policy Foundation is a not-for-profit think tank that conducts research and analyzes the impact of public policies on the people of arkansas. The foundation was founded in 1995 and emphasizes the importance of education and fiscal policies while encouraging citizenship.the foundation distributes research memos and reports via news media and the internet, and hosts and participates in public forums.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fifteen (15) research memos were distributed in 2025. The memos examined policy areas including citizenship, the u.s. And arkansas economies, education, fiscal policy, and infrastructure. Topics included (citizenship) opportunities for future leaders; (economy) coincident economic indicators, arkansas nonfarm payroll employment growth, arkansas real gdp growth, real gdp across sectors, the durable goods sector, arkansas personal income growth; (education) the arkansas school choice market, regional markets; (fiscal policy) technology's role in improving state government efficiency, income taxes, tax rates, fiscal trends; (medical care) uninsured arkansans access to 'pop-up' clinics, and right to try.the foundation distributes its research via its website (www.arkansaspolicyfoundation.org) and the u.s. Mail. Research is distributed free of charge. The foundation has distributed dictionaries to arkansas k12 students since 2005. The foundation participates with civic and community groups and also sponsors free public forums. The foundation participated in a fiscal policy forum on economic conditions.the foundation is an educational organization that seeks to foster citizenship among…
$90,998 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $90,998.
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 $20k to $44k (+114%).
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.
100% of ARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% 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.
Board chair
George H Dunklin Jr
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $43k → $60k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 POLICY FOUNDATION’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 POLICY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 41% · 2018 61% · 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 39% · 2022 40% · 2023 50% — 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
22% of ARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
92% of ARKANSAS POLICY 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. $11k 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 POLICY FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION
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In Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
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 POLICY 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 POLICY FOUNDATION?
- ARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $387,681 to it, the largest being GEORGE H DUNKLIN JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($155,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $387,681 in grants to ARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION?
- GEORGE H DUNKLIN JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARKANSAS POLICY 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.
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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 2017–2025), 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