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ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC

ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,110,989 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,356,743). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.3M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$6.1M
Net assets
$1.6M
14/19 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Arkansas Public Policy Panel Inc does

Mission

Ar public policy panel is a statewide organization dedicated to achieving social and economic justice by organizing citizen groups around the state, educating and supporting them to be more effective and powerful, and linking them with one another in coalitions and networks. The panel seeks to bring balance to the public policy process in arkansas.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Development of local interest groups with training in strategic planning, campaign development and organizational development. Organize grassroots groups and develop leaders in arkansas. Network activists working together across traditional barriers. Build coalitions of groups and organizations.

    $952,304 spentof which $350 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $952,304.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 28 ($296k) Expenses 99 ($1.1M) Net assets 48 ($766k)2019 Revenue 144 ($1.5M) Expenses 83 ($931k) Net assets 85 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 88 ($918k) Expenses 90 ($1.0M) Net assets 80 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 60 ($621k) Expenses 90 ($1.0M) Net assets 57 ($906k)2022 Revenue 92 ($959k) Expenses 101 ($1.1M) Net assets 44 ($706k)2023 Revenue 84 ($873k) Expenses 107 ($1.2M) Net assets 30 ($481k)2024 Revenue 221 ($2.3M) Expenses 107 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (221)Expenses (107)Net assets (100)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $2.5M to $1.2M (−51%).

$2.5M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.2M
$1.0M
$706k
$1.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 13% · 2021 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$84k
’17
−$812k
’18
$571k
’19
−$92k
’20
−$387k
’21
−$179k
’22
−$331k
’23
$1.1M
’24
7.7
months of
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

William Kopsky

Executive director

Board chair

Curtis Mangrum

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+1+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0001000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $833k → $552k.

7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC’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 PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

30% 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 PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC.

22%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 80% · 2019 75% · 2020 62% · 2021 86% · 2022 30% · 2023 45% — 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

36% of ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 9 states in all.

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
AR
NC
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Arkansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $839k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin48% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC

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In Arkansas

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 18%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

60%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AR

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC?
ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,110,989 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,356,743). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $6,110,989 in grants to ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC?
WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,356,743 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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