Arkansas · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,446,088 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($3,642,358). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Special Olympics Arkansas Inc does
Mission
To provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for all children and adults with intellectual disabilities giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other special olympics athletes, and the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provided year round sports training and competitions in twenty olympic type sports for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Also offered additional programs for athletes' development and fitness, including: "healthy hearing" which provided free hearing screenings; "special smiles" which offered free dental screenings; "opening eyes" which provided free vision screenings; "fun fitness" where occupational and physical therapists measured athletes flexibility and need for other treatments; "health promotion" which promoted a healther athlete for a healthier lifestyle; and "project unify" initiatives which combined social, educational, and inclusional opportunities through sports.
$1,737,800 spent$52,465 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,737,800.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.4M to $7.2M (+111%).
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 19% · 2018 20% · 2019 22% · 2020 29% · 2021 32% · 2022 30% · 2023 25% · 2024 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Terri Weir
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $410k → $640k.
9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 79% · 2019 77% · 2020 78% · 2021 83% · 2022 87% · 2023 78% — 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
47% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $451k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC
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.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC: 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,446,088 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($3,642,358). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $4,446,088 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,642,358 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 32 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