Arkansas · Nonprofit
FAMILY COUNCIL
FAMILY COUNCIL (Arkansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $602,976 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($341,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $603k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Family Council does
Mission
We promote, protect, and strengthen traditional family values by standing for a biblical worldview. We blend the time-honored principles of the bible with sound scientific research to shape public policy and influence public opinion so that both are aligned with morally sound, socially responsible, and economically conservative principles.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
We provide ministers, leaders of non-profit organizations, and the general public with non-partisan voter guides, research reports, policy briefs, update letters, email alerts, online resources, publications, and other information that addresses social, moral, and economic issues related to arkansas families. We believe the biblical mandate to exercise dominion over creation (genesis 1:28) is a call to act as stewards of god's creation. That creation includes social structures ordained by god, including without limitation the family (genesis 2:24; genesis 5:2; mark 10:6-9) and society and government (romans 13:1-6; daniel 2:21; john 19:11).
$818,226 spent80% of program spendingFamily Council seeks to promote, protect, and strengthen home schooling by serving as a statewide home school support organization dedicated to helping anyone interested in home schooling.
$100,000 spent10% of program spendingWe promote, protect, and strengthen traditional family values by providing educational information on public policies and shaping public opinion from a christian worldview. Our ministry is founded on the belief that we should love and care for our neighbors and we are moved by our sincerely held religious beliefs that god has established unchanging moral absolutes and truth. We promote these moral absolutes and truth in the public arena. We educate policymakers and community leaders on how to respect innocent human life, how to follow the first amendment protection of religious liberty, and how to craft marriage policies that align with our judeo-christian faith and heritage. In addition, we inform leaders about the long-term impact of expanding gambling or legalizing illegal drugs. We speak in churches and civic clubs, conduct media interviews, and participate in public forums as a means of educating the public and shaping public opinion. We inform the public about the stabilizing influence of the nuclear family, the economic impact of family breakdown, and how to establish a more stable society.
$100,000 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,018,226.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $1.6M (+39%).
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: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of FAMILY COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Ron Branscum
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $92k → $73k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FAMILY COUNCIL’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
FAMILY COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 FAMILY COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 95% · 2019 99% · 2020 76% · 2021 82% · 2022 60% · 2023 55% — 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
29% of FAMILY COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
70% of FAMILY COUNCIL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $178k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $425k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FAMILY COUNCIL is better cushioned than half of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FAMILY COUNCIL
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Family Council Action Committee · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY COUNCIL: 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 FAMILY COUNCIL?
- FAMILY COUNCIL (Arkansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $602,976 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($341,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAMILY COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $602,976 in grants to FAMILY COUNCIL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY COUNCIL?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $341,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY COUNCIL 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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