Arkansas · Nonprofit
FORT SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY
FORT SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY (Arkansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,813 to it, the largest being WILLIAM THOMAS & MAY PITMAN HENNESSY FOUNDATION ($3,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Fort Smith Public Library does
Mission
To provide equal opportunity access to information including high interest/high demand books, multimedia materials, programs, exhibits, and on-line resources to meet the educational and recreational needs of our diverse community for lifelong learning, cultural enrichment and intellectual stimulation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides library services to the residents of fort smith, arkansas and the surrounding areas.
$4,235,731 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,235,731.
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 $3.5M to $14M (+294%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 5% · 2021 4% · 2022 4% · 2023 74% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of FORT SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $80 → $547.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $990k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fort Smith Public Library Endowment Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money FORT SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY raised.
From the IRS filings of FORT SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY’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 PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 91% — 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
100% of FORT SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $313 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 PUBLIC LIBRARY's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FORT SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORT SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY: 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 PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- FORT SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY (Arkansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,813 to it, the largest being WILLIAM THOMAS & MAY PITMAN HENNESSY FOUNDATION ($3,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORT SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,813 in grants to FORT SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORT SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- WILLIAM THOMAS & MAY PITMAN HENNESSY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORT SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY 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 3 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