Arkansas · Nonprofit
BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION
BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,069,766 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($5,525,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Excellerate Foundation Charitable Supportshared funderslocal
- Shamrock Six Foundation Incportfolio match
- Hanson Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
98% of BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $37k → $6.8M.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 BENTONVILLE LIBRARY 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
BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 32% · 2021 71% · 2022 30% · 2023 74% — 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
71% of BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
100% of BENTONVILLE LIBRARY 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. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Excellerate Foundation Charitable Supportshared funderslocalAR · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 26 organizations near you
- Shamrock Six Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hanson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prentice Farrar Brown and Alline Ford Brownportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jim Hedrick and Janice O Lantz Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Normil Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frederick Pitzman Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brown-Forman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issuesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Winthrop Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gilliland Family Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oregon State Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 BENTONVILLE LIBRARY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,069,766 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($5,525,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $9,069,766 in grants to BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENTONVILLE LIBRARY 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.
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 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing