Kids Chance of Arkansas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043667535
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Little Rock, AR, USA
- Phone
- 5013511767
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,839
- Expenses
- $74,364
- Assets
- $95,496
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTINA JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- HOWARD BENNETT (TREASURER)
- JILL JOHNSON (SECRETARY)
- AMANDA DINWIDDIE (DIRECTOR)
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
Kids chance of Arkansas was incorporated in 2001 with the mission of providing scholarships to the dependents of deceased and permanently totally disabled workers with compensable Arkansas workers compensation claims.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, the kids chance of Arkansas scholarship program awarded scholarships totaling 66,500. Funding for these scholarships is made possible through the generosity of corporate and individual donors, as well as fund raising events like the kids chance of Arkansas charity golf tournament.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -24.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 20/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.