Arkansas Public Policy Panel Inc

Analysis

Arkansas Public Policy Panel Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Little Rock, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1972, 54 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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, Arkansas Public Policy Panel Inc reported income of $873k and spending of $1.2m, spending 138% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.5m to $873k (-42%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Arkansas Public Policy Panel Inc 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 78th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ret 3 Job Corp Inc ($872k), Tenafly Nature Center Association ($873k) and Three Mountain Alliance Foundation ($872k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $99k (8.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $586k. At year end it held assets of $706k against liabilities of $225k, net assets of $481k. It reported 16 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.