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SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC

SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,957,107 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($7,200,539). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.2M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$9.0M
Net assets
$16M
16/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Northwest Arkansas Inc does

Mission

The mission of single parent scholarship fund of northwest arkansas is to help singla parents become self-sufficient through post secondary education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Scholarship grants to qualified and selected single parents.

    $1,870,602 spentof which $1,294,132 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,870,602.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($964k) Net assets 100 ($4.1M)2018 Revenue 92 ($1.1M) Expenses 106 ($1.0M) Net assets 97 ($4.0M)2019 Revenue 135 ($1.6M) Expenses 112 ($1.1M) Net assets 110 ($4.6M)2020 Revenue 104 ($1.2M) Expenses 116 ($1.1M) Net assets 121 ($5.0M)2022 Revenue 231 ($2.8M) Expenses 256 ($2.5M) Net assets 288 ($12M)2023 Revenue 227 ($2.7M) Expenses 277 ($2.7M) Net assets 312 ($13M)2024 Revenue 337 ($4.0M) Expenses 276 ($2.7M) Net assets 370 ($15M)2025 Revenue 266 ($3.2M) Expenses 311 ($3.0M) Net assets 398 ($16M)
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Revenue (266)Expenses (311)Net assets (398)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $13M to $16M (+18%).

$4.2M
$4.1M
$4.6M
$5.0M
$12M
$13M
$16M
$17M
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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
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$231k
’17
$85k
’18
$532k
’19
$126k
’20
$296k
’22
$48k
’23
$1.4M
’24
$183k
’25
6.0
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.

Chief executive

Tyler Clark

Executive director

Board chair

Anthony Sumlin

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2221192023232320
Joined·+7+3+2·+0+0+2
No longer listed·851·005
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $470k → $1.6M.

15 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS 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

SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

96% 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 SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC.

80%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 89% · 2019 82% · 2020 90% · 2021 93% · 2022 77% · 2023 73% — 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

43% of SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

93% of SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $607k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Arkansas funders.

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PA
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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. $8.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve6.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 23%Fundraising 14%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

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 SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC?
SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,957,107 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($7,200,539). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $8,957,107 in grants to SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC?
ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,200,539 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS 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 26 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