Arkansas · Nonprofit
ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION
ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,716 to it, the largest being ARNOLD ROGERS & SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($31,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $202k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Economics Arkansas Foundation does
Mission
See schedule o.to assist, promote and facilitate, directly and indirectly, the arkansas council on economic education (dba economics arkansas) in the attainment of its goals and objectives in facilitating exposure to economic and financial education for primary and secondary level students and to support and expand its operation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide support to the program and operating services of arkansas council on economic education (dba economics arkansas).
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.5M to $3.1M (+24%).
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.
52% of ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Kathleen Lawson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $19k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $350k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arkansas Council on Economic Education). These are real filings, and they are not money ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION’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
ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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: 2019 71% · 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 85% · 2023 54% — 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.
Where its funders are
95% of ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Arkansas Council on Economic Education · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION: 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 ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION?
- ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,716 to it, the largest being ARNOLD ROGERS & SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($31,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $53,716 in grants to ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION?
- ARNOLD ROGERS & SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECONOMICS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION 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 7 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