Advocates for Community and Rural Education

Analysis

Advocates for Community and Rural Education is a registered charity in United States, based in Little Rock, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Advocates for Community and Rural Education reported income of $1.0m and spending of $1.1m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $154k to $1.0m (+569%), an average of +61% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 79%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Advocates for Community and Rural Education sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Being Beautiful Foundation ($1.0m), Future Seekers Inc ($1.0m) and Green Light New York Inc ($1.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $117k against liabilities of $6,781, net assets of $110k. It reported 5 employees.