Arkansas · Nonprofit
LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS INC
LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,398 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC ($242,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Walter O Caldwell Foundationshared funderslocal
- The Gallogly Family Foundationportfolio match
- The Philip R Jonsson Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 85% · 2018 68% · 2019 80% · 2020 71% · 2021 81% · 2022 72% · 2023 26% · 2024 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $33k → $41k.
1 of 8 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 LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS 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
LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 96% · 2021 94% · 2022 87% · 2023 64% — 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
50% of LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
92% of LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS 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. $98 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 309 organizations that share them.
- Walter O Caldwell Foundationshared funderslocalAR · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 26 organizations near you
- The Gallogly Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Philip R Jonsson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Walton Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learningportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Skills Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baptist Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rentch Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Skillbuilders Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Msw Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Afterschool Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Andrew & Julie Klingenstein Family Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS INC?
- LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,398 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC ($242,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $278,398 in grants to LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC is the largest funder on record, with $242,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing