Arkansas · Nonprofit
CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC
CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,030,338 to it, the largest being Baptist Health ($280,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Central Arkansas Area Agency on Aging Inc does
Mission
Carelink connects older people and their families with resources to meet the opportunities and challenges of aging. We accomplish this by providing in-home services to help homebound older people live in their own homes as long as possible; helping active older people stay fit, healthy and involved; and helping family caregivers navigate the maze of available services and care for aging family members. Our vision is a community of people who celebrate living and are aging well. The service area served by carelink includes faulkner, lonoke, monroe, prairie, pulaski, and saline counties in central arkansas. Carelink offers many services and assists over 12,068 people annually.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Carelink provides in-home services to help homebound older people safely live in their own homes as long as possible. Clients receive assistance with the day-to-day tasks associated with housekeeping and personal grooming. Clients may also receive nutritious meals-on-wheels, the reassurance of a daily telephone wellness check-in, or non-emergency medical transportation.approximately 2,973 homebound older people received services during the year ended june 30, 2025.
$8,730,051 spentof which $1,864,409 as grants$5,475,270 earned by the program73% of program spendingCarelink helps active older people stay fit, healthy and involved through fitness and wellness programs, senior centers and volunteer opportunities. At senior centers, people can enjoy a nutritious lunch, make new friends, renew old acquaintances, enjoy group activities and relieve the stress of being alone. A group transportation option provides shopping trips and other outings. Fitness and wellness programs are provided in senior centers and other locations. Carelink also offers a variety of volunteer opportunities. Carelink and senior center programs in our service area receive over $2 million a year in volunteer effort from dedicated volunteers.approximately 3,554 active older people received services during the year ended june 30, 2025.
$1,760,365 spentof which $959,863 as grants$1,837 earned by the program15% of program spendingCarelink helps older people and their families determine what services are available. Free information and guidance to help families match their needs with programs, services, and resources are available upon request. Carelink helps find the best way to pay for these services and either delivers them directly or makes referrals. Information and assistance serves as a clearinghouse of useful resources on virtually every aging-related topic. Legal assistance and nursing home ombudsman programs provide additional support. Approximately 7,036 different individuals received outreach and advocacy services during the year ended june 30, 2025.
$1,098,724 spentof which $59,267 as grants9% of program spendingCarelink helps family caregivers navigate the maze of available services and care for their aging family members. Family caregivers receive counseling services focusing on issues that affect their personal stress levels and well-being in addition to being informed about potential services for the aging family member they are assisting. They also receive instruction or assistance with completing applications for aging services.approximately 686 family caregivers received services during the year ended june 30, 2025.
$388,054 spentof which $193,535 as grants3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,977,194.
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 2020 to 2021, from $15M to $16M (+10%).
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 37% · 2018 36% · 2019 40% · 2020 42% · 2021 55% · 2022 51% · 2023 55% · 2024 56% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% 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
Luther Mattingly
CEO / president
Board chair
Harrison Kemp
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $44k → $181k.
7 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 30 funders by total. 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
CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
69% 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 CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 96% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 37% · 2022 58% · 2023 39% — broadly stable.
“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
45% of CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
71% of CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k 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.
Against its field
CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $358k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$358k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
- Carechoices LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC?
- CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,030,338 to it, the largest being Baptist Health ($280,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,030,338 in grants to CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC?
- Baptist Health is the largest funder on record, with $280,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 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