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VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION

VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,000 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$64k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$83k
Net assets
$190k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Van Buren School District Education Foundation does

Mission

The mission of the van buren education foundation is to generate and distribute resources to the van buren school district to enrich, maintain, and expand programs needed to meet the district's stated mission of excellence in education.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation was set up to help fund projects for the van buren school district. There was no money available in the district to fund these projects. Through donations and fundraising these funds are used to promote special projects in the classrooms. The foundation will achieve its mission by directing resources toward these goals. Encourage all students to work to their highest potential, staff support for innovative efforts, recognize staff for exemplary teaching, build community awareness of the van buren school distric education foundation, and inspire parents and the community to participate with the school district in enriching education.

    $53,253 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $53,253.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($67k) Expenses 100 ($79k) Net assets 100 ($196k)2019 Revenue 118 ($78k) Expenses 110 ($87k) Net assets 95 ($186k)2020 Revenue 69 ($46k) Expenses 55 ($43k) Net assets 97 ($189k)2022 Revenue 96 ($64k) Expenses 90 ($71k) Net assets 88 ($173k)2023 Revenue 117 ($78k) Expenses 80 ($63k) Net assets 96 ($188k)2024 Revenue 96 ($64k) Expenses 78 ($62k) Net assets 97 ($190k)
201820192020202220232024
Revenue (96)Expenses (78)Net assets (97)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 2022 to 2023, from $173k to $188k (+9%).

$196k
$186k
$189k
$173k
$188k
$190k
201820192020202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 93% · 2022 72% · 2023 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’18
−$8k
’19
$3k
’20
−$7k
’22
$15k
’23
$2k
’24
37
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.

201820192020202220232024
Listed665333232
Joined·+0+0·+0+0
No longer listed·01·10
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $13k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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

VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 77% — 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.

Where its funders are

96% of VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Arkansas funders.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve36.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

32
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

Files a return copy in 1 state

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: 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 VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,000 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $83,000 in grants to VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC 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 VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 2018–2024), 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