Arkansas · Nonprofit
EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS
EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS (Arkansas) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,430,548 to it, the largest being EASTER SEALS INC ($787,659). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $65M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Easterseals Arkansas does
Mission
To provide exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities have equal opportunities to live, learn, work, and play in their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community services - provides innovative alternatives to institutional care of persons of all ages with developmental disabilities. Services are community based. Services provided to approximately 369 individuals.
$16,179,567 spent$17,194,617 earned by the program42% of program spendingChildren's residential services - icf/rehabilitative and habilitative services for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Services provided to 45 children.
$8,939,988 spent$8,546,413 earned by the program23% of program spendingOutpatient therapy - physical, occupational, and speech therapy services provided to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the preschool, outpatient, and high risk infant monitoring programs. Services provided to approximately 645 children and adults.
$4,582,178 spent$5,437,502 earned by the program12% of program spendingAdult services - habilitation (addt), employment (hire) and transition (sets and acce) services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, services provided to 557 adults.
$2,992,520 spent$2,099,997 earned by the program8% of program spendingAdult residential services - icf/rehabilitative and habilitative services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Services provided to 11 adults.
$859,441 spent$821,492 earned by the program2% of program spendingOutreach program and technology services - services, supports and training in schools throughout the state of arkansas including student specific consultation and evaluation services. Services provided to over 1,500 students, teachers, therapists and other professionals and parents.
$1,370,854 spent$60,313 earned by the program4% of program spendingArmistead village, wilson court, wilson court ii and harold court - independent living complexes with 17,14,14, and 14 apartments respectively, for adults with disabilities. Services provided to approximately 67 adults.
$69,053 spent$79,431 earned by the program0% of program spendingDevelopmental preschool - developmental preschool for children with developmental, intellectual, and other special needs. Day habilitation, therapy, nursing and other support services. Services to approximately 292 children.
$2,687,712 spent$2,416,226 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe academy - a private school, outpatient therapy clinic and summer eidt program that offers services to students with intellectual disabilities. The academy is eligible to participate in the arkansas succeed scholarship program, which provides scholarships for students with disabilities. 95 students were served during the fiscal year.
$1,230,835 spent$1,044,602 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $38,912,148.
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 2024 to 2025, from $25M to $36M (+43%).
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: 2017 8% · 2019 10% · 2020 9% · 2021 20% · 2022 32% · 2023 11% · 2024 9% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Ronald Ekstrand
President/CEO
Board chair
George Cole
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $232k → $577k.
8 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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: $397k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Easter Seals Arkansas Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS raised.
From the IRS filings of EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 26% · 2019 25% · 2020 26% · 2021 39% · 2022 56% · 2023 48% — 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
55% of EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $313k 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
EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 5 related entities
- Easter Seals Arkanasas Foundation · exempt
- Armistead Village Apartments · exempt
- Wilson Court II · exempt
- Charlotte Gardens Inc · exempt
- Harold Court · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS?
- EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS (Arkansas) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,430,548 to it, the largest being EASTER SEALS INC ($787,659). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,430,548 in grants to EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS?
- EASTER SEALS INC is the largest funder on record, with $787,659 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 42 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