ARKANSAS CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B90

Classification

2000

Street

8511 CEASE DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE ARKANSAS CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCES (ACDS) PROVIDES SERVICES TO EMPLOYERS NEEDING SPECIFIC SKILLS TO MAINTAIN AND GROW THEIR BUSINESSES. IN 2023 ACDS WAS ASKED TO CONTINUE WITH THE IT SECTOR, BUT ALSO BEGIN TO WORK WITH EMPLOYERS IN ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS, HEALTHCARE, AND ENERGY. ACDS PROVIDES THE EMPLOYERS A SUPPLEMENTAL STAFFING STRATEGY USING THE REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM. AT THE END OF 2024, ACDS GREW THE IT SECTOR, HAD SIGNIFICANT OUTCOMES IN THE NEW SECTORS, AND A GROWING PIPELINE. THE NUMBER OF APPRENTICES GREW FROM 388 IN 2023 TO 710 IN 2024, AND THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPATING EMPLOYERS GREW FROM 145 IN 2023 TO 183 IN 2024. THE ACDS GOAL TO SCALE TO 400 APPRENTICES AND 100 EMPLOYERS HAS BEEN FAR EXCEEDED AS WE WRITE THIS IN NOVEMBER OF 2025. THE ROI FOR EMPLOYERS, THE LIFE CHANGING CAREERS FOR THE APPRENTICES AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE NEW WAGES IN ARKANSAS IS SIGNIFICANT. ACDS DEVELOPS THE TALENT APPLICATIONS BY ASSESSING, OFFERING FREE PRE-APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING, RESUME COACHING, AND MOCK INTERVIEWS. WE TAKE THE CANDIDATES WHERE THEY ARE CURRENTLY AND PREPARE THEM TO BE EMPLOYER READY. TODAY WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY 1,500 ACTIVE CANDIDATES, AND WE CONTINUE TO HAVE ALMOST 1,000 ACTIVE APPRENTICES.ACDS WORKS DIRECTLY WITH THE EMPLOYERS UNDERSTANDING THE SKILLS THEY NEED. ACDS WORKS WITH THE TALENT POOL AND PROVIDES PRE-APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING, WORK BASED LEARNING INTERNSHIPS, 48 IN 2024 WITH 80% BEING OFFERED FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT AFTER THE INTERNSHIP.THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER CONTINUES TO PLAN AN IMPORTANT ROLE FOR EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION. THE NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS HAS GROWN FROM 8,800 IN 2023 TO 10,600 IN 2024. THE NUMBER OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWERS HAS GROWN FORM 4,109 IN 2023 TO 5,800 IN 2024.THE TALENT DEVELOPMENT TEAM HAD 5,589 INDIVIDUAL APPLICATIONS. IN 2024, THAT NUMBER WAS 5,589 BRINGING OUR TOTAL TO-DATE TO 22,531.THE UNIFIED COMMUNITY APPRENTICESHIP TEAM (UCAT), NOW THE APPRENTICESHIP EXPANSION TEAM, CONTINUED TO MEET MONTHLY IN 2024. THIS TEAM HAS EVOLVED TO AND ITS MISSION HAS BECOME THE STATEWIDE APPRENTICESHIP EXPANSION MEETING NOW WEEKLY.THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR CONTINUED TO COMPLIMENT THE ACDS OUTCOMES THAT ARE BEING REPORTED QUARTERLY. ACDS BENEFITED FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FORMULA FUNDING, STATE APPRENTICE EXPANSION FUNDING GRANTS, THAT THE STATE OF ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE FUNDED THROUGH THE DIVISION OF THE OFFICE OF SKILLS DEVELOPMENT. TWO NEW ACDS RESOURCES WERE ADDED TO FOCUS ON THE NEW SECTORS.

  Expenses $2,778,448 · Grants $7,500 · Revenue $1,750

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $2,805,936

  Expenses

  $2,921,393

  Contributions

  $2,801,921

  Grants paid

  $7,500

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,826,371

  Expenses

  $2,824,865

  Contributions

  $2,823,201

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,753,417

  Expenses

  $2,240,869

  Contributions

  $2,651,469

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,880,611

  Expenses

  $2,167,545

  Assets (EOY)

  $24,675

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,863,538

  Expenses

  $1,629,044

  Assets (EOY)

  $311,828

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $337,326

  Expenses

  $741,321

  Assets (EOY)

  $65,503

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $505,373

  Expenses

  $46,997

  Assets (EOY)

  $476,756

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

• THE VENTURE CENTER

  $7,500

  2024 · ENTERPRENEURIAL SUPPORT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC

  $30,000

  2023 · TO SUPPORT EXPANSION OF REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS THROUGH INDUSTRY INTERMEDIARIES (IDEA-M)

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC

  $14,774

  2022 · SPECIFIC PROGRAM

• ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $10,000

  2024 · FOR OPERATIONAL FUNDING

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