ARCO, A Community Resource
Legal name: The Arc of Ouachita
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 720568009
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Monroe, LA, US
- Phone
- (318) 387-7817
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,769,327
- Expenses
- $3,899,221
- Assets
- $2,874,143
- Liabilities
- $514,488
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
People named in this filing
- LARRY ARBOUR (BOARD ATTORN)
- SHANE BRIDGES (BOARD MEMBER)
- PAT CRANFORD (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To empower individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families to have quality lives through information, support, and opportunity.
What it reported doing in 2024
This income is derived primarily from the Louisiana department of health through two medicaid waivers, the now and the supports waiver. These funds are used to train clients in vocational activities and supportive services. Also, some income is derived from the Louisiana workforce commission, office of Louisiana rehabilitative services which specifically provides vocational training support to clients placed in jobs within the community. Supported work contracts - supported work contract's income is derived from document destruction services by one client.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.3%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.4%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 85.3% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 12 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.