Arkansas · Nonprofit
INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS
INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS (Arkansas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,148,311 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($415,419). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $799k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $807k
What Innovative Poverty Solutions does
Mission
Our mission is to develop and implement community driven, innovative solutions to ending poverty in northwest arkansas. Our vision is a community committed to removing the barriers that keep people in poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Circles nwa: provided mentorship and connections to community resources for families and provided poverty reduction training for community members.
$249,388 spent55% of program spendingVois institute: trained and supported community leaders with lived experience of poverty to share their stories, influence public understanding, and advance community-driven solutions to end poverty.
$165,795 spent36% of program spendingNew initiatives: developed and implemented a fair auto-lending pilot program that helps working families overcome transportation barriers, access low interest loans, and gain reliable transportation.
$41,049 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $456,232.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $337k to $655k (+94%).
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.
96% of INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $92k → $332k.
8 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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
INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 54% · 2022 43% · 2023 40% — 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
91% of INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $289k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS: 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 INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS?
- INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS (Arkansas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,148,311 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($415,419). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,148,311 in grants to INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $415,419 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 13 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