Arkansas · Nonprofit
Chance for Change
Chance for Change (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being UNION PACIFIC FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $248k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Chance for Change does
Mission
The program uses a holistic evidence-based approach that starts at the point of contact with the criminal justice system and includes emphasis on education, families, health services, alcohol and drug treatment, employment, mentorship, and housing.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Program Service Expenses for 2025
$183,758 spentof which $248,158 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $183,758.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Chance for Change’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
Chance for Change leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
Chance for Change draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Chance for Change runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 41 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 41 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding Chance for Change receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record.
- Department of Justice$750k
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 Chance for Change
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Chance for Change: 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 Chance for Change?
- Chance for Change (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being UNION PACIFIC FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chance for Change have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,000 in grants to Chance for Change.
- Who is the largest funder of Chance for Change?
- UNION PACIFIC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chance for Change 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 FY2026 (financials across 2026–2026), and the filings of 2 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