Arkansas · Nonprofit
FIRST ELECTRIC TRUST
FIRST ELECTRIC TRUST (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $89,898 to it, the largest being FIRST ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION ($89,898). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $143k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $44k
What First Electric Trust does
Program
First Electric Trust provided funding for non-profit organizations/agencies and individuals with regard to food, shelter, clothing, health care, equipment, community improvement projects, education and other special needs items in the 18 county service territory of first electric cooperative through "operation round up". First electric cooperative corporation administers the trust and collects all donations on behalf of the trust and funds all operating expenses. Additionally, first electric cooperative corporation provided accounting and management services valued at $5,062.
$135,804 spentof which $115,407 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $135,804.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $22k to $34k (+55%).
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.
100% of FIRST ELECTRIC TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Lois A Burks
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $0.
From the IRS filings of FIRST ELECTRIC TRUST’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 FIRST ELECTRIC TRUST's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
FIRST ELECTRIC TRUST receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $90k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FIRST ELECTRIC TRUST
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.
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST ELECTRIC TRUST: 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 FIRST ELECTRIC TRUST?
- FIRST ELECTRIC TRUST (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $89,898 to it, the largest being FIRST ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION ($89,898). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST ELECTRIC TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $89,898 in grants to FIRST ELECTRIC TRUST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST ELECTRIC TRUST?
- FIRST ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $89,898 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST ELECTRIC TRUST 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 2020–2024), 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