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POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC

POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,600 to it, the largest being BOB CARVER CHARITABLE TRUST % JOHN D MADDOX ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.0M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$102k
Net assets
$2.8M
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Polk County Development Center Inc does

Mission

Education and training of developmentally disadvantaged persons.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Education and training for approximately 60 developmentally disadvantaged persons.

    $2,198,677 spent$2,209,868 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,198,677.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($779k)2018 Revenue 99 ($1.9M) Expenses 108 ($1.9M) Net assets 99 ($771k)2019 Revenue 111 ($2.1M) Expenses 113 ($2.0M) Net assets 116 ($903k)2020 Revenue 133 ($2.6M) Expenses 117 ($2.1M) Net assets 188 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 136 ($2.6M) Expenses 124 ($2.2M) Net assets 241 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 160 ($3.1M) Expenses 140 ($2.5M) Net assets 318 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 149 ($2.9M) Expenses 158 ($2.8M) Net assets 325 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 159 ($3.0M) Expenses 160 ($2.8M) Net assets 353 ($2.8M)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (160)Net assets (353)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.4M to $2.2M (+56%).

$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$2.2M
$2.6M
$2.8M
$2.9M
$3.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 13% · 2022 12% · 2023 5% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$148k
’17
−$8k
’18
$113k
’19
$483k
’20
$411k
’21
$601k
’22
$60k
’23
$218k
’24
5.3
months of
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.

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Listed1191010109910
Joined·+1+2+0+1+0+1+2
No longer listed·3101111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.

From the IRS filings of POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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

POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

79%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 67% · 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

85% of POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Arkansas out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Avants Group Living Center Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,600 to it, the largest being BOB CARVER CHARITABLE TRUST % JOHN D MADDOX ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $101,600 in grants to POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
BOB CARVER CHARITABLE TRUST % JOHN D MADDOX is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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