Arkansas · Nonprofit
EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC
EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $366,176 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($177,426). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $185k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $366k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What East Arkansas Business Development Council Inc does
Mission
To assist in the development of business in the eastern arkansas area
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Jonesboro unlimited division - the purposes of the corporation are to engage in activities designed to assist in the development of businesses in the eastern arkansas area; to provide and promote educational opportunities to members and potential members of the work force in the eastern arkansas area; and to aid, assist and foster the development and improvement of jonesboro, arkansas, and other communities in the eastern arkansas area, all such activities to be performed either alone or in a cooperation and coordination with governmental and civic bodies in an effort to combat community deterioration and secure adequate community facilities, services and conditions, economic and otherwise.
$700,477 spentof which $51,800 as grants93% of program spendingEducational training division - approximately 12 local industries participate in retraining their existing workforces through classes.
$51,800 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $752,277.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.1M to $4.6M (+47%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Chris Barber
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $20k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $330k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St Bernards Hospital Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC’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
EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 47% · 2019 73% · 2020 73% · 2021 73% · 2022 50% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $177k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 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 EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC?
- EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $366,176 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($177,426). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $366,176 in grants to EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC?
- ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $177,426 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST ARKANSAS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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