Arkansas Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
710768429
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Springdale, AR, USA
Phone
4795302846
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$103,042
Expenses
$112,213
Assets
$121,695
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Karen Henry (Past President)
  • Christen Graham (President)
  • Melissa Bratton (First Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Karen Henry (Past President)
  • Judy Hobson (Treasurer and Membership Chair)
  • Tracy Leone (Secretary)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

ARKTESOL provides research and current best practices to educators in public and private PK-12 schools, higher education institutions including preservice teachers, adult education agencies, as well as any organization designed to facilitate and promote the education of multilingual learners.

What it reported doing in 2025

Professional development to 325 teachers from school districts and higher education institutions in SETESOL states and other bordering states. This included two national speaker from Massachusetts and California as well as providing each attendee with the speakers presentation In addition to the keynote speakers, teachers have options to attend three break-out sessions from a pool of about ninety. These sessions are offered by local and invited educators who are experts in the area of ESL. Costs include speaker fees, AV, conference materials, meals and rental costs. We recognize outstanding educators and coordinators . This was ARKTESOL's year to hosts all of the SETESOL states to a 3 day conference.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.9%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $107K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.