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FORWARD ARKANSAS

EIN 81-3130391 LITTLE ROCK, AR

Revenue 2024
$2,987,348
Expenses 2024
$3,224,222

Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1200
Street
1400 W MARKHAM ST STE 302

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

FORWARD ARKANSAS IS A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP ESTABLISHED BY THE ARKANSAS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, THE WALTON FAMILY FOUNDATION, AND THE WINTHROP ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION TO INCREASE EQUITY AND ACHIEVE INCREASES IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY FOR ARKANSAS.

  • FORWARD ARKANSAS IS A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP ESTABLISHED BY THE ARKANSAS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, THE WALTON FAMILY FOUNDATION, AND THE WINTHROP ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION TO INCREASE EQUITY AND ACHIEVE INCREASES IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY FOR ARKANSAS.

    Expenses $2,902,125 · Revenue $2,987,348

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.

  • VICKI SAVIERS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PHILLIP BALDWIN

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JARED HENDERSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEBORAH FRAZIER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARY ELIZABETH ELDRIDGE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VICTORIA M DEFANCESCO SOTO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TEQUILLA BROWNIE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHANEIL PJ YARBROUGH

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANNA STRONG

    SECRETARY/TR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BEN KUTYLO

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $228,625
    From this org
    $215,275
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,350
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $215,275
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $13,350
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $228,625

  • MALACHI NICHOLS

    DIRECTOR OF

    Total calculated
    $119,893
    From this org
    $112,731
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,162
    Hours/week
    40

  • COURTNEY LINCOLN

    SENIOR DIREC

    Total calculated
    $124,772
    From this org
    $117,265
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,507
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $2,987,348
    Expenses
    $3,224,222
    Contributions
    $2,987,348
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,018,954
    Expenses
    $3,927,743
    Contributions
    $3,018,954
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,205,592
    Expenses
    $3,329,832
    Contributions
    $3,205,592
    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
    $3,931,852
    Expenses
    $1,922,187
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,159,962

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,534,170
    Expenses
    $1,097,672
    Assets (EOY)
    $628,866

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,119,000
    Expenses
    $1,364,941
    Assets (EOY)
    $167,508

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,320,000
    Expenses
    $1,576,387
    Assets (EOY)
    $516,087

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,033,105
    Expenses
    $1,387,769
    Assets (EOY)
    $660,120

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $82,500
    Expenses
    $26
    Assets (EOY)
    $82,474

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

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

  • ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

    $1,372,038

    2022 TO SUPPORT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PHASE 2 OF THE EDUCATOR PREPARATION PROGRAM (EPP) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK (UALR) AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY (SAU)

  • ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

    $1,134,138

    2024 TO SUPPORT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PHASE 2 OF THE EDUCATOR PREPARATION PROGRAM (EPP) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK (UALR) AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY (SAU)

  • ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

    $1,118,229

    2023 TO SUPPORT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PHASE 2 OF THE EDUCATOR PREPARATION PROGRAM (EPP) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK (UALR) AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY (SAU)

  • ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

    $10,000

    2023 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT IN HONOR OF VICKI SAVIERS

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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.