Arkansas Learns

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
455627205
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Little Rock, AR, USA
Phone
5014923418
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$28,915
Expenses
$39,032
Assets
$76,582
Liabilities
$24,871

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • JIM WALTON (DIRECTOR, TREASURER)
  • CLAIBORNE DEMING (DIRECTOR)
  • BILL DILLARD III (DIRECTOR, CHAIRMAN)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide excellent education for all students to ensure the talent and workforce necessary for Arkansas businesses to successfully compete in a global economy.

What it reported doing in 2024

Public education and community service - the organization is a voice for Arkansas business in local, legislative, executive and administrative public school governance; produces and encourages talent development, retention, and recruitment activities which ensure the workforce necessary for Arkansas to successfully compete in a global economy; and promotes local and state educational excellence to foster innovation and sharing of best practices to improve the welfare of businesses located in the state of Arkansas, and the citizens who are dependent thereon.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -35%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.96; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -22.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $39K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.