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DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION

DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being TYSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$240k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$75k
Net assets
$62k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Downtown Fayetteville Coalition does

Mission

Our mission is to celebrate downtown fayetteville as an epicenter of culture, cuisine, entertainment, and the arts and to connect downtown stakeholders and community with a common voice.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The strawberry festival is a free community summer festival around the historic fayetteville square. An annual event, it ocurred on saturday, may 17, 2025 and sunday, may 18, 2025. It served roughly 10,000 attendees. The event included live music, food and drink sampling, a pie competition, a dog parade, and art installments for attendees to enjoy.

    $42,585 spent
    33% of program spending

  2. Falltoberfest is a free annual fall festival that occurred sunday, october 5, 2025. It served roughly 15,000 attendees. Attendees enjoyed beer tastings, mr. Oktoberfest, dogtober fest, art installations, crafts, and various vendor booths along dickson street.

    $40,042 spentof which $222 as grants$740 earned by the program
    31% of program spending

  3. Phantasma in the ramble is an annual laser light show and silent disco that occurred the friday, saturday, and sunday evenings of october 9-11, 2025. A free event for all ages, it served roughly 4,000 attendees.

    $26,885 spent
    21% of program spending

  4. Facade grants

    $7,200 spentof which $7,200 as grants
    6% of program spending

  5. Pride

    $5,000 spent
    4% of program spending

  6. Lights of the ozark

    $3,586 spent
    3% of program spending

  7. Miscellaneous events

    $3,561 spent
    3% of program spending

  8. Festivus

    $758 spent$150 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

  9. Banner

    $741 spent$425 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

The 9 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $130,358.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.

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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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Months of reserve3.9mo · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION

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

Soma 501 Little Rock Inc71%Downtown Bentonville Inc71%Fayetteville Public Library Foundation71%Folk School of Fayetteville Inc70%Arkansas Cornbread Festival Inc69%Friends of Berryville Library Inc69%Ozark Folkways69%Fayetteville Public Education Foundation Inc69%

Nationally

Dogwood Festival Inc76%Discover Downtown Franklin Inc75%Duluth Fall Festival Inc75%Rotary Club of Coatesville Foundation Incorporated74%Franklinton Arts District74%Downtown Management Corporation of Fort Myers Florida Inc74%Fond Du Lac Festivals Inc74%Fayette County Fair Association73%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

56% of spending goes to programs.

Program 56%Management 44%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION?
DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being TYSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $75,000 in grants to DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION?
TYSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 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