Arkansas · Nonprofit
HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY
HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY (Arkansas) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,053,749 to it, the largest being SIEMER INSTITUTE ($800,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What Heart of Arkansas United Way does
Mission
Heart of Arkansas United Way serves our community in three primary ways: we invest in programs that make a measurable impact. We work to understand the key needs in our community in education, financial stability, and health, and strategically fund those programs which are making the biggest impact. Our community investment committee is made up of trained local volunteers who review programs and the agencies that lead them to ensure every dollar is making an impact. We engage our community in meaningful volunteer service. We work alongside companies and community groups to deepen our impact in our key funded areas within education, financial stability and health. We develop partnerships to lead in key initiatives. We work with other nonprofit organizations, businesses, and local schools to directly address community challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program expenses related to united way organizations and allocations to related united way agencies. Our 2024 community investment grant cycle awarded $375,000 to 21 organizations.
$1,232,350 spentof which $655,907 as grants79% of program spendingDirect payments to individuals for natural gas heating assistance. Actual payments were applied to the account by summit utilities. We served 1167 individuals.
$270,116 spentof which $270,116 as grants17% of program spendingThe march 31 disaster funds that were unsolicited donations were restricted for long term recovery. Heart of Arkansas United Way expensed $54,560 to repair 7 homes damaged by the tornado.
$54,560 spentof which $54,560 as grants4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,557,026.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.3M to $8.9M (+69%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Valorie Lynn Pharr
CEO
Board chair
Jonathan Gray
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 11 funders, grant income rose $290k → $374k.
12 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $7k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Heart of Arkansas United Way). These are real filings, and they are not money HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY raised.
From the IRS filings of HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 65% · 2019 61% · 2020 47% · 2021 46% · 2022 31% · 2023 29% — 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
37% of HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $471k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY: 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 HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY?
- HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY (Arkansas) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,053,749 to it, the largest being SIEMER INSTITUTE ($800,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,053,749 in grants to HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY?
- SIEMER INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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