Northwest Arkansas Senior Services

Analysis

Northwest Arkansas Senior Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Bentonville, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2001, 25 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, Northwest Arkansas Senior Services reported income of $803k and spending of $1.3m, spending 164% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $529k to $803k (+52%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 267%. Over the whole period it spent 194% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Northwest Arkansas Senior Services sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Safe Journey ($803k), Clinical Pastoral Education International Inc ($803k) and Titi Millie Day Care Inc ($802k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $7.1m against liabilities of $11.5m, net assets of -$4.3m.

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.