Arkansas · Nonprofit
MAIN STREET FORT SMITH
MAIN STREET FORT SMITH (Arkansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,308 to it, the largest being THE GRIFFIN CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION ($431,208). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $350k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $811k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Main Street Fort Smith does
Mission
Main Street Fort Smith is a nonprofit committed to creating vibrant spaces in downtown fort smith through business development, arts and culture, special events, and the promotion of attractive amenities to accelerate development of diverse commerce.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Main Street Fort Smith is main street accredited. Main Street Fort Smith is part of a national network of more than 1,200 neighborhoods and communities who share both a commitment to creating high-quality places and to building stronger communities through preservation-based economic development.
$275,217 spent$137,544 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $275,217.
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 2018 to 2019, from $498k to $1.6M (+213%).
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: 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 11% · 2021 27% · 2022 20% · 2023 3% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of MAIN STREET FORT SMITH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $71k → $42k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 MAIN STREET 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
MAIN STREET FORT SMITH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 81%; 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: 2017 65% · 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 60% · 2021 34% · 2022 64% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“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 MAIN STREET FORT SMITH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
84% of MAIN STREET FORT SMITH's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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
MAIN STREET FORT SMITH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MAIN STREET 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
41% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 MAIN STREET FORT SMITH: 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 MAIN STREET FORT SMITH?
- MAIN STREET FORT SMITH (Arkansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,308 to it, the largest being THE GRIFFIN CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION ($431,208). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAIN STREET FORT SMITH have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $811,308 in grants to MAIN STREET FORT SMITH, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAIN STREET FORT SMITH?
- THE GRIFFIN CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION is the largest funder on record, with $431,208 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAIN STREET 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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