Arkansas · Nonprofit
COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC
COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $605,160 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($328,155). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $605k
- Net assets
- $994k
What Compassion Center of Nwa Inc does
Mission
Compassion nwa is a non-profit organization committed to creating locally sourced opportunities to give, serve, and engage a community in need while building a sustainable grace driven organization that offers hope to the hurting.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The compassion center of nwa is committed to raising the standard of living in northwest arkansas by extending help, love, and dignity to our neighbors in northwest arkansas.our feed 479 ministry is a choice food pantry that serves the food insecure of northwest arkansas through our main pantry 4 times a week and at 3 mobile pantries monthly. The pantry is open to all regardless of financial status and our neighbors can shop every 30 days to choose food that fits their preferences and dietary circumstances.compassion, nwa also helps new foster and adoption families by providing each child with a suitcase containing 2 weeks of freshly laundered clothing, seasonal items, and toiletries. The family receives access to the choice pantry and the child is provided a personalized snack basket to provide comfort that food will always be available to them.compassion provides men who have a criminal history with food, some essential home goods, and clothing to help them re-establish a residence and employment opportunities.during the fiscal year ended september 30, 2025, the organization provided food assistance services to 266,616 individuals through its food pantry and related programs.
$1,901,418 spentof which $130,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,901,418.
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 2023 to 2024, from $882k to $1.6M (+80%).
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: 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $111k → $113k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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
COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 73%; 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: 2020 81% · 2021 38% · 2022 62% · 2023 72% — 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
25% of COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
99% of COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA 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. $109k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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
- Cross Church · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC: 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 COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC?
- COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $605,160 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($328,155). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $605,160 in grants to COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC?
- WAL-MART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $328,155 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA 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 15 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