Arkansas · Nonprofit
NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE
NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $310,000 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE INC ($290,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $151k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $310k
- Net assets
- $92k
What Natural State Advancement Institute Dba Arkansas Strong Institute does
Mission
Nsai is a nonprofit dedicated to elevating voices of forward-thinking arkansans who want to build stronger communities that come together to make arkansas a more prosperous and equitable state and who want a balanced approach to policy affecting the wellbeing of people's lives as shaped by evidence and results instead of extreme ideology. Nsai's goals are to tell stories of arkansans overcoming challenges in their lives and to educate arkansans about the negative effects of extreme policies advanced by certain individuals and organizations and how these policies will affect the quality of life in arkansas.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Narrative and story development: nsai identified, crafted, and promoted compelling stories and narratives that demonstrate how arkansans can come together to build a more prosperous and equitable state, particularly in the areas of faith, parenthood, health, community, and lived experiences. Nsai contracted with individuals to identify and write compelling stories about arkansans building communities to overcome challenges. Nsai disseminated these stories through a website, arstrong.org, owned by its sister 501c4 organization and ensured that the content on such website only contains content appropriate for activities of a 501c3 entity. Content generated and promoted online reached an estimated audience in the tens of thousands through digital and social media channels.
$97,837 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,837.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $31k to $88k (+180%).
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.
100% of NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $40k.
From the IRS filings of NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE’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
NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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 NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
94% of NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 284 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 284 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE
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.
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 NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE: 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 NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE?
- NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $310,000 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE INC ($290,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $310,000 in grants to NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE?
- ARKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE 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 FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), and the filings of 2 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