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VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES

VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES (Arkansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $378,203 to it, the largest being FARRELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($145,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$240k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$378k
Net assets
$341k
7/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Voices for Childrencourt Appointed Spec Advocates does

Mission

Assist abused children in legal matters

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide court appointed volunteers to work alongside attorneys and caseworkers to provide assistance and gather info about abused children and thir individual needs

    $136,130 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $136,130.

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 ($206k) Expenses 100 ($195k) Net assets 100 ($49k)2018 Revenue 117 ($241k) Expenses 114 ($223k) Net assets 137 ($67k)2019 Revenue 110 ($227k) Expenses 103 ($200k) Net assets 192 ($95k)2020 Revenue 102 ($210k) Expenses 93 ($181k) Net assets 251 ($123k)2021 Revenue 110 ($227k) Expenses 104 ($203k) Net assets 299 ($147k)2022 Revenue 112 ($230k) Expenses 97 ($190k) Net assets 381 ($187k)2023 Revenue 114 ($235k) Expenses 96 ($187k) Net assets 478 ($235k)2024 Revenue 124 ($256k) Expenses 106 ($207k) Net assets 578 ($284k)2025 Revenue 129 ($267k) Expenses 118 ($230k) Net assets 652 ($321k)2026 Revenue 116 ($240k) Expenses 112 ($219k) Net assets 694 ($341k)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (112)Net assets (694)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 $191k to $243k (+27%).

$57k
$75k
$101k
$128k
$154k
$191k
$243k
$290k
$328k
$349k
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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
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 61% · 2018 63% · 2019 64% · 2020 57% · 2021 52% · 2022 75% · 2023 70% · 2024 73% · 2025 77% · 2026 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$18k
’18
$27k
’19
$29k
’20
$24k
’21
$40k
’22
$48k
’23
$49k
’24
$37k
’25
$21k
’26
19
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

Ollie Merritt

Exec director

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

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Listed4131414141313131213
Joined·+11+1+0+1+3+1+0+3+4
No longer listed·200141043
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $42k → $37k.

1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES’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

VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

46% 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 VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES.

38%
largest funder
84%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 85% · 2019 48% · 2020 52% · 2021 82% · 2022 77% · 2023 82% — 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.

How long its funders stay

80% of VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% 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

VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 3 states in all.

NY
CA
AR

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. $100 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

VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 41 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve18.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 41 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Organizations like VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES

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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 38%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES?
VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES (Arkansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $378,203 to it, the largest being FARRELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($145,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $378,203 in grants to VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES?
FARRELL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 8 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