Legal Aid of Arkansas

Analysis

Legal Aid of Arkansas is a registered charity in United States, based in Springdale, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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, Legal Aid of Arkansas reported income of $4.8m and spending of $5.0m, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.4m to $4.8m (+40%), an average of +8.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Legal Aid of Arkansas sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hispanas Organized for Political Equality-California ($4.8m), Voice of the Experienced Vote ($4.8m) and Life Camps Incorporated ($4.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.2% and program service revenue 92% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $3.7m. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $383k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 68 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.