Arkansas · Nonprofit
WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC
WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,445 to it, the largest being AARP ($6,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $68k
What Western Arkansas Child Development Inc does
Mission
To equip children for success through parents, staff, and community. We do this by hosting parent group meetings, parents are asked to volunteer in the classroom, we participate in community events including the bringing of community professionals to the classrooms, and our staff is required to receive many hours of training that relate to the classroom instruction and environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
High quality early education and child care services provided to children birth to five exhibiting developmental/socioeconomic risk factors. Other agency programs related to child education include family literacy programs, substance abuse programs, and other services.
$1,443,805 spent$1,149,498 earned by the program87% of program spendingChild and adult care food program - provides meals for qualified low income children. Optimal nutrition enhances a young child's ability to learn and enriches his quality of life. Western arkansas child development complies with the united states department of agriculture (usda) nutritional guidelines when planning menus and implementing nutrition education.
$216,820 spent13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,660,625.
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 2022 to 2023, from $401k to $906k (+126%).
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 77% · 2018 75% · 2019 72% · 2020 31% · 2021 55% · 2022 49% · 2023 49% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Malinda Mcspadden
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $53 → $32.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
56% 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 WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 55% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195 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
WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC's revenue fell 47% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT 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 WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC?
- WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,445 to it, the largest being AARP ($6,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $11,445 in grants to WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC?
- AARP is the largest funder on record, with $6,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN ARKANSAS CHILD DEVELOPMENT 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 4 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