Arkansas · Nonprofit
FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER
FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER (Arkansas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $606,408 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($341,305). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $606k
- Net assets
- $683k
What Fort Smith Children's Emergency Shelter does
Mission
To provide a safe and stable home that provides long-term, evidence-based, trauma-informed, resident-centered and family-focused care to youth in foster care who exhibit emotional and behavioral disorders due to neglect and/or abuse.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Day to day operation of a shelter for area youths between the ages of 6-20 whose primary need is emergency short term housing due to family dysfunction.
$834,045 spent$1,012,331 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $834,045.
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 2021 to 2022, from $734k to $607k (−17%).
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 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $39k → $71k.
2 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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: $2.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fort Smith Children's Emergency Shelter Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER raised.
From the IRS filings of FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER’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
FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 82% · 2019 62% · 2020 60% · 2021 45% · 2022 70% · 2023 64% — 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
50% of FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
71% of FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER'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 $179k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $428k 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
FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 1 related entity
- Fort Smith Children's Emergency · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER: 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 FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER?
- FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER (Arkansas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $606,408 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($341,305). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $606,408 in grants to FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER?
- ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $341,305 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER 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 20 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