Arkansas · Nonprofit
OZARK FOLKWAYS
OZARK FOLKWAYS (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,518 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($16,419). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $34k
- Net assets
- $189k
What Ozark Folkways does
Mission
Ozark Folkways is a nonprofit organization devoted to the preservation development instruction and celebration of regional arts and crafts
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Community eventsclasses - providing ongoing classes workshops concerts art shows craft displays and other local events to the general public as well as providing community studio space for artists to create their craftsart makerspace general operations support was provided by the arkansas arts council additional
$8,887 spentof which $2,465 as grants32% of program spendingGallery - providing a venue in which local artists and craftspeople can display and sell their work thereby making ozarks arts and crafts familiar to a broader segment of the public and enhancing the publics understanding of them
$15,922 spent57% of program spendingFiberfest is an event inaugurated in 2023 as a proposed annual event that encompasses celebration demonstrations and exhibitions of Fiber Arts The held two day event invites local artisans and craftspeople to display demonstrate and sell their works a judged exhibition a silent auction and a speaker andor music performance that is fiber arts themed
$712 spent3% of program spendingKids Fiber Art Camp held in summer of 2024 for which funding was provided by local business sponsors
$1,825 spentof which $2,000 as grants7% of program spendingJune Jam was a fundraiser held in June 2024 to assist with the associated expenses related to plumbing repairs in the WWII era two-story native-stone building housing the Folkways art gallery performance area and maker spaces
$461 spent2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,807.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $16k to $161k (+893%).
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.
17% of OZARK FOLKWAYS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kylee Kidder
Executive Director
Board chair
Kathy Sparks
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $12k → $15k.
1 of 4 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 OZARK FOLKWAYS’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
OZARK FOLKWAYS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 66% — 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
100% of OZARK FOLKWAYS's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99 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.
Against its field
OZARK FOLKWAYS has grown faster than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like OZARK FOLKWAYS
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
90%
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 OZARK FOLKWAYS: 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 OZARK FOLKWAYS?
- OZARK FOLKWAYS (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,518 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($16,419). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OZARK FOLKWAYS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $33,518 in grants to OZARK FOLKWAYS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OZARK FOLKWAYS?
- WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,419 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OZARK FOLKWAYS 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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