Arkansas · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL INC
FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,403 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $71k
- Net assets
- $187k
What Friends of the Ouachita Trail Inc does
Mission
Maintenance for the ouachita national hiking trail.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Maintenance/improvements to the ouachita national hiking trail and other trails in the ouachita national forrest.
$28,675 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,675.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $162k to $187k (+16%).
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.
68% of FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $15k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL 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
FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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 FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL 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. $16k 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
FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3k
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 FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL 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.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,403 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $71,403 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL INC?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE OUACHITA TRAIL 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.
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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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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