Arkansas · Nonprofit
CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN
CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,093,484 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($3,609,544). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchan does
Mission
Cache works with creatives, organizations, and communities to empower a more inspiring, inclusive, and equitable northwest arkansas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The medium: the medium is cache's 25,000 sq ft radically inclusive space for creative expression. The medium offers affordable and equitable access to studio, performance, rehearsal, exhibition, and meeting space for artists of all backgrounds. Cxf, an initiative at the medium, which provided creatives with space, equipment, and technical support to experiment and expand their audience.
$1,445,883 spentof which $147,500 as grants$102,841 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe artists creative fund (acf): the artists creative fund provides funding, visibility, and professional development to artists and creatives living in tulsa, oklahoma. Funded by the george kaiser family foundation and the tulsa community foundation, the program is managed by cache, which oversees the initiative as a whole. Through 20 project-specific awards of $10,000 each, a diverse group of artists is invited to test new ideas, explore collaboration, and build skills while generating new creative work.
$225,100 earned by the programCommunications resources, training, consultations, & promotions: the communications programming of cache focuses on providing a seried of resources for creatives and creative nonprofits, including an artist directory, regional arts and culture event calendar, a rolling list of current grant and opportunities and a media list. Cache also hosts a biennial communications professional development conference aimed at strengthening community building and communications skill development.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,445,883.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $2.8M (+117%).
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: 2022 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Kelsey Howard
Executive director
Board chair
Lisa Brence
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $856k → $1.6M.
From the IRS filings of CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN’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
CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 89% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
88% of CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN: 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 CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN?
- CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,093,484 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($3,609,544). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,093,484 in grants to CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,609,544 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY HUB & EXCHAN 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 2022–2025), 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