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ARKANSAS RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION

EIN 71-0494563 LONOKE, AR

Revenue 2024
$3,092,308
Expenses 2024
$3,073,442

Program services were 63.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 860

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

Mission

TO PROVIDE ARKANSAS' RURAL WATER UTILITIES THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF TRAINING AND TECHNICAL SERVICES IN ORDER TO OBTAIN QUALITY WATER AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE COST.

  • PROVIDE ARKANSAS' RURAL WATER UTILITIES TRAINING AND TECHNICAL SERVICES.

    Expenses $1,943,061 · Revenue $1,212,514

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Dennis Sternberg

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $175,991
    From this org
    $175,991
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $175,991
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $175,991
  • Zach Baker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Butch Bartholomew

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bobby Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Choate

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Greg Cross

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeff Ford

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Benjy Hildebrand

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Greg Hooten

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tate House

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Terry House

    2ND VICE PRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jackie William Hinchey Jr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jesse McChristian Jr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Liles

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jesse McKinnon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tenay Sellers

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bryan Smith

    1ST VICE PRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $3,092,308
    Expenses
    $3,073,442
    Contributions
    $1,761,502
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,262,692
    Expenses
    $2,963,182
    Contributions
    $1,763,786
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,994,869
    Expenses
    $2,819,096
    Contributions
    $1,764,044
    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
    $2,995,411
    Expenses
    $2,403,374
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,000,563
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,491,521
    Expenses
    $2,484,316
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,294,291
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,369,935
    Expenses
    $2,575,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,243,529
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,953,970
    Expenses
    $2,441,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,315,682
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,658,257
    Expenses
    $2,361,210
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,780,375
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,659,650
    Expenses
    $2,230,256
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,485,528
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,527,773
    Expenses
    $2,137,242
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,020,757
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,165,921
    Expenses
    $1,920,867
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,607,229
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,973,424
    Expenses
    $1,814,184
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,407,784
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,637,448
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,251,974

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.