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FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS

FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS (Arkansas) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,278,824 to it, the largest being BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA (GROUP RETURN) ($1,225,119). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.9M
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$3.3M
Net assets
$11M
20/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What Fort Smith Boys & Girls Clubs does

Mission

The fort smith boys & girls club's mission is to help youth of all backgrounds develop qualities needed to become responsible citizens and leaders. Through our association with boys & girls clubs of america, we seek to enhance the quality of life for the youth of our community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The fort smith boys & girls club provided facilities and equipment for the use of local youth to aid in educational and recreational activities.

    $2,159,445 spentof which $1,724 as grants$295,567 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,159,445.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($5.4M)2018 Revenue 159 ($2.4M) Expenses 104 ($1.5M) Net assets 116 ($6.3M)2019 Revenue 183 ($2.8M) Expenses 147 ($2.1M) Net assets 121 ($6.6M)2020 Revenue 106 ($1.6M) Expenses 94 ($1.3M) Net assets 126 ($6.9M)2021 Revenue 167 ($2.5M) Expenses 112 ($1.6M) Net assets 144 ($7.8M)2022 Revenue 280 ($4.3M) Expenses 131 ($1.8M) Net assets 188 ($10M)2023 Revenue 149 ($2.3M) Expenses 141 ($2.0M) Net assets 193 ($11M)2024 Revenue 190 ($2.9M) Expenses 186 ($2.6M) Net assets 201 ($11M)
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Revenue (190)Expenses (186)Net assets (201)Peer revenue range

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 $7.9M to $10M (+31%).

$5.5M
$6.3M
$6.6M
$7.2M
$7.9M
$10M
$11M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 1% · 2021 6% · 2022 23% · 2023 4% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

69% of FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,035 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$120k
’17
$969k
’18
$730k
’19
$283k
’20
$976k
’21
$2.4M
’22
$299k
’23
$278k
’24
7.6
months of
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.

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Listed2727262626262626
Joined·+4+0+4+1+3+3+1
No longer listed·4141331
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $139k → $259k.

4 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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: $1.8M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Fort Smith Area Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS raised.

From the IRS filings of FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

51% 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 FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS.

37%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 31% · 2019 45% · 2020 81% · 2021 67% · 2022 59% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.

“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

67% of FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 7 states in all.

KS
AR
TN
OK
AL
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Arkansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve7.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.

Federal$75k
grants $75kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$75k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 14%Fundraising 4%

Governance

27
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AR

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Questions and answers

Who funds FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS?
FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS (Arkansas) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,278,824 to it, the largest being BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA (GROUP RETURN) ($1,225,119). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,278,824 in grants to FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS?
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA (GROUP RETURN) is the largest funder on record, with $1,225,119 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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