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HARBOR HOUSE INC OF FORT SMITH

HARBOR HOUSE INC OF FORT SMITH (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $588,881 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC ($503,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$12M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$589k
Net assets
$11M
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Harbor House Inc of Fort Smith does

Mission

To help individuals recover from alcohol and drug addictions

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Residential and nonmedical detoxificationthe residential program offers structured care in an alcohol and drug free environment to those who are unable to function as a result of their substance abuse problem.nonmedical detoxification is when a client is placed in an observation room and is closely monitored for withdrawal symptoms, and if warranted, the client will transfer to medical detoxification.

    $5,710,162 spent$2,583,960 earned by the program
    71% of program spending
  2. Outpatient therapy and chemical free livingchemical free living is available when a client completes a residential program. This provides the client with continued structure while easing back into workforce, society, and with their families. Outpatient therapy provides a treatment regimen for clients whose physical and emotional status allows them to function in their home environment.

    $364,709 spent$351,452 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  3. Outpatient clinicsthe outpatient services program is for parolees and individuals coming out of prison to treat substance abuse problems in an outpatient program. It is a 4 month program where the individual is required to attend 2 groups and 1 individual treatment a week.

    $1,654,944 spent$484,394 earned by the program
    20% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $348,681 spent$1,695,452 earned by the program
    4% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,078,496.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.2M) Net assets 100 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 117 ($5.0M) Expenses 174 ($5.5M) Net assets 91 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 160 ($6.8M) Expenses 192 ($6.1M) Net assets 113 ($3.7M)2021 Revenue 218 ($9.3M) Expenses 224 ($7.1M) Net assets 186 ($6.0M)2022 Revenue 252 ($11M) Expenses 282 ($9.0M) Net assets 238 ($7.7M)2023 Revenue 298 ($13M) Expenses 326 ($10M) Net assets 312 ($10M)2024 Revenue 262 ($11M) Expenses 331 ($11M) Net assets 324 ($10M)2025 Revenue 278 ($12M) Expenses 348 ($11M) Net assets 347 ($11M)
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Revenue (278)Expenses (348)Net assets (347)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.6M to $8.2M (+77%).

$3.4M
$3.5M
$4.6M
$8.2M
$10M
$12M
$13M
$15M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 61% · 2019 44% · 2020 35% · 2021 36% · 2022 46% · 2023 53% · 2024 43% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
’17
−$550k
’19
$695k
’20
$2.2M
’21
$1.8M
’22
$2.3M
’23
$601k
’24
$753k
’25
0.8
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.

Chief executive

Carl Norris

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2120181917171920
Joined··+1+6+5+5+3+1
No longer listed··357510
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $86k → $45k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
3
2

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HARBOR HOUSE INC OF FORT SMITH’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

HARBOR HOUSE INC OF FORT SMITH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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

100% 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 HARBOR HOUSE INC OF FORT SMITH.

85%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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

98% of HARBOR HOUSE INC OF FORT SMITH's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.

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AR

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. $125 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like HARBOR HOUSE INC OF FORT SMITH

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 HARBOR HOUSE INC OF FORT SMITH?
HARBOR HOUSE INC OF FORT SMITH (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $588,881 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC ($503,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HARBOR HOUSE INC OF FORT SMITH have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $588,881 in grants to HARBOR HOUSE INC OF FORT SMITH, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HARBOR HOUSE INC OF FORT SMITH?
UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC is the largest funder on record, with $503,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HARBOR HOUSE INC OF FORT SMITH 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing