Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families

Analysis

Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is a registered charity in United States, based in Little Rock, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 Advocates for Children and Families reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.0m, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $2.5m (+65%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 69%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include East Arkansas Youth Services Inc ($2.5m), Samaritan Homes Inc ($2.5m) and Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% and program service revenue 0.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $147k (7.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $3.0m against liabilities of $205k, net assets of $2.8m. It reported 19 employees.