Arkansas STEM Coalition
Little Rock, AR · EIN 27-2284443. Reported 52 grants totalling $604,477 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Arkansas STEM Coalition, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B05) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 37% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $9,934. Half of what it reported fell between $8,391 and $13,200; the smallest was $5,135 and the largest $27,825. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
37 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $409,009 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams Magnet Elementary Sc | Little Rock, AR | $56,810 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| Springdale School District | Springdale, AR | $36,680 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arkansas State University | Jonesboro, AR | $36,300 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bentonville School District | Bentonville, AR | $31,787 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fayetteville Public Schools | Fayetteville, AR | $30,928 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cabot School District | Cabot, AR | $23,332 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Harding University | Searcy, AR | $23,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beebe School District | Beebe, AR | $22,990 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Augusta Elementary | Augusta, AR | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rogers School District | Rogers, AR | $19,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fort Smith School District | Fort Smith, AR | $18,882 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Little Rock School District | N Little Rock, AR | $18,573 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Univ of Central Arkansas | Conway, AR | $18,552 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fouke Elementary School | Fouke, AR | $18,416 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pulaski County Special School District | Little Rock, AR | $15,849 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Univ of Ark - Fayetteville | Fayetteville, AR | $13,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Conway School District | Conway, AR | $12,506 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arkansas Acadmey of Computing | Little Rock, AR | $12,056 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bryant School District | Bryant, AR | $11,926 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wilson Intermediate School | Malvern, AR | $10,042 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elkins School District | Elkins, AR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jf Wahl Elementary School | Helena, AR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pinkston Middle School | Mountain Home, AR | $9,955 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lakeside Elementary School | Lake Village, AR | $9,914 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southside School District | Batesville, AR | $9,701 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lead Hill Elementary School | Lead Hill, AR | $9,637 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Park Magnet | Hot Springs, AR | $9,048 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hector Elementary School | Hector, AR | $8,391 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jonesboro School District | Jonesboro, AR | $8,243 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Van Buren School District | Van Buren, AR | $7,154 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Russellville School District | Russellville, AR | $7,086 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Benton School District | Benton, AR | $6,989 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Henderson State University | Arkadelphia, AR | $6,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Arkansas at Monticello | Monticello, AR | $6,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lake Hamilton Intermediate School | Pearcy, AR | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| West Memphis School District | West Memphis, AR | $5,723 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Siloam Springs School District | Siloam Springs, AR | $5,687 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jacksonville North Pulaski School District | Jacksonville, AR | $5,476 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sheridan School District | Sheridan, AR | $5,209 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Scholars of Arkansas Foundation | Little Rock, AR | $5,135 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
8 of 40 (20%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 2 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | $62,700 | $13,200 |
| 2022 | 1 | $23,100 | $23,100 |
| 2023 | 16 | $169,475 | $9,803 |
| 2024 | 30 | $349,202 | $9,957 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $9,934 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Arkansas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Arkansas STEM Coalition's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 30 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 3142, Little Rock, AR, 72203.
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