Arkansas · Nonprofit
Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc
Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc (Arkansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $509,170 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($290,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $509k
- Net assets
- $87k
What Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc does
Mission
The Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History was established to help further the mission of the Division of Arkansas Heritage; to identify Arkansass Heritage and enhance the quality of life by the discovery,preservation and presentation of the States cultural, historic and natural resources for the benefit of all Arkansans;
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Foundations purpose is to assist and support the Department of Arkansas Heritage, a state agency whose mission is to identify, preserve and educate the public about Arkansass cultural, historic and natural resources for the benefit of all Arkansans.
$339,790 spentof which $339,695 as grants$19,917 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $339,790.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $407k to $87k (−79%).
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.
99% of Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
2019 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $55k → $100k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $15k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc’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
Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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: 2019 55% · 2020 100% · 2021 46% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k 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
Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc: 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 Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc?
- Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc (Arkansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $509,170 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($290,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $509,170 in grants to Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 7 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