Arkansas · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,000 to it, the largest being Leadership for the Future Inc ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $210k
- Net assets
- $365k
What Northwest Arkansas Council does
Mission
Promotion of the growth, vitality, and development of northwest arkansas and its people, concentrating on workforce development, regional stewardship, infrastructure, and economic development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Established by sam walton, don tyson, j.b. Hunt and other business leaders, we are a private, nonprofit organization working to advance job opportunities, talent recruitment, physical infrastructure, health care and quality of life. Most of the council's more than 100 members are companies, including walmart, tyson foods, j.b. Hunt transport services, inc., simmons foods and george's, inc.over the years, we supported the development of new roads and thriving downtown squares and helped shape cultural destinations like crystal bridges museum of american art, walmart amp, arvest ballpark, scott family amazeum, the momentary, walton arts center, theatresquared, university of arkansas and the razorback regional greenway. There's more on the horizon, from the lake frances water park near siloam springs to the ramble in downtown fayetteville.the council is currently focusing it's efforts in the following area: arts & culture, belonging & bridging, economic development, entrepreneurship, health care,, housing, infrastructure, onward ozarks, recycling, regional growth, talent attraction and workforce development
$1,332,110 spent$484,185 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,332,110.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.9M to $857k (−71%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Nelson E Peacock
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $100k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $180k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arkansas Children's Northwest Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL raised.
From the IRS filings of NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL’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
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
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 NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
100% of NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL'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.
Organizations like NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL: 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 NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL?
- NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,000 to it, the largest being Leadership for the Future Inc ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $210,000 in grants to NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL?
- Leadership for the Future Inc is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing