Arkansas · Nonprofit
OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC
OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $531,712 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($178,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $356k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $532k
- Net assets
- $562k
What Ozark Literacy Council Inc does
Mission
Ozark literacy council offers free literacy programs and resources in northwest arkansas in order to build a welcoming, inclusive and empowered community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult education. Ozark literacy council provides english language learning to immigrants, refugees, and native english speakers from 50 different countries of origin, 95% of whom speak languages other than english. We have been providing free english classes and individual tutoring for adults in washington county arkansas since 1964. Our goals are to promote literacy, provide education, support newcomers, build inclusive communities and advance opportunities for new arkansans. Through improved language skills, our students can gain employment, economic mobility, and participate in our community. We work to build inclusive communities and foster understanding, belonging, and mutual engagement among new arkansans and their neighbors.
$154,240 spent69% of program spendingWorkforce development. Ozark literacy council has a 60-year history as a provider of english language acquisition classes in washington county. Our existing partnerships with other regional adult education programs and workforce services strengthen coordination between programs and navigation opportunities for students. We are strengthening ela supported skills training in our region by coordinating pathways to training with other area providers to increase opportunities for adults who speak other languages. By strategizing with area business leaders, we are targeting workforce gaps. Through improved language skills, integrated with workforce training, new arkansans will gain employment to strengthen our regional economy and build a more inclusive community.
$40,108 spent18% of program spendingWelcome center. Our welcome center is central to our volunteer program built on three ideas -opportunity, welcoming and friendship. We pair immigrants with volunteers to practice language skills and learn more about our region. Thanks to volunteers, many immigrants have the opportunity that they otherwise wouldn't have to take english classes. Our volunteers allow us to provide low-cost individualized classes at different times and days. Thanks to volunteers, immigrants feel more welcome here. In many cases, our volunteers are the immigrants' first real bridge to the broader community. Thanks to volunteers, our community is more integrated. Language segregates us, but our volunteers use that barrier as an excuse to connect with and form meaningful friendships with english learners.
$28,121 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $222,469.
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 2021 to 2022, from $517k to $377k (−27%).
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 41% · 2018 29% · 2019 62% · 2020 67% · 2021 80% · 2022 68% · 2023 92% · 2024 27% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Aashika Jayanth
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $98k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 LITERACY COUNCIL 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
OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 70% · 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 57% · 2022 50% · 2023 82% — 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
14% of OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
62% of OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL 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. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC
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In Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC?
- OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $531,712 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($178,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $531,712 in grants to OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC?
- WAL-MART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $178,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OZARK LITERACY COUNCIL 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.
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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 11 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