Arkansas · Nonprofit
THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH ARKANSAS
THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH ARKANSAS (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($21). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $21
- Net assets
- $15M
What The Learning Center of North Arkansas does
Mission
Continue employing new programs, services, staff and other options to parents and consumers in our attempt to provide a wider variety of services to the residents of carroll county, while preparing for the future with long-range goals for the center in building construction and renovation and increasing enrollment in services offered. The Learning Center of North Arkansas will continue to foster the continued development of the individual?s ongoing social, emotional, behavioral, and educational needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arkansas better chance program - to identify and assist educationally deprived children ages 3 to 5. Students enrolled in this program receive free childcare services which follow a designated curriculum on a daily schedule. The schedule includes outdoor play and the children are served breakfast, lunch, and snacks. Over 100,000 meals for both breakfast and lunch were served during the 2024 fiscal year. Currently there are more than 350 children birth to 5 years of age enrolled in the childare programs.
$181,738 spent$181,738 earned by the program3% of program spendingProvide specialized services to developmentally delayed/disabled preschoolers and adults residing in north arkansas. Over 9,000 hours of dedicated habilitation services were provided to the adults enrolled in the program during the 2024 fiscal year. Additionally, over 200,000 hours of habilitation services were provided in the preschool services. Some of the children receiving habilitation services were also enrolled in the arkansas better chance program.
$6,460,674 spent$7,983,693 earned by the program97% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,642,412.
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 2024 to 2025, from $14M to $16M (+15%).
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 11% · 2018 10% · 2019 9% · 2020 12% · 2021 19% · 2022 24% · 2023 9% · 2024 24% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH ARKANSAS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Karla Gray
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $11.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH ARKANSAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH ARKANSAS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21 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
THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH ARKANSAS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH ARKANSAS
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- East View Apartments Limited Partnership · partnership
- West View Apaprtments Limited Partnership · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH ARKANSAS: 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 THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH ARKANSAS?
- THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH ARKANSAS (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($21). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH ARKANSAS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $21 in grants to THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH ARKANSAS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH ARKANSAS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH ARKANSAS 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 2 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