· Private foundation
Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $270k
- $250k+3 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lyon College | $14,316,039 |
| Lyon College | $2,783,981 |
| Renaissance Charitable Foundation | $2,116,461 |
| Friends of Kitties & Kanines | $40,000 |
| Highway 7 Spay & Neuter | $25,000 |
| Companions Spay and Neuter Clinic | $25,000 |
| Paws & Claws Humane Society | $25,000 |
| CARE for Animals Little Rock | $20,000 |
| Arkansans Assisting Homeless Animals | $18,000 |
| Humane Society of Randolph County | $15,000 |
| Calhoun Animal Rescue Effort | $15,000 |
| Shoal Bay Animal Haven | $15,000 |
| Amys Animal Rescue of Star City | $12,000 |
| Humane Society of North Central Arkansas | $10,000 |
| Union County Animal Protection Society | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 80% of Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in AR; read by stated purpose it is 36% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HSHEBER SPRINGS HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2019–2024 · $114k · revenue +77%
- CACENTRAL ARKANSAS RESCUE EFFORT FOR ANIMALS INC4× · 2019–2022 · $102k · revenue +35%
- NANORTHEAST ARKANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY INC5× · 2019–2024 · $98k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- EZEQUESTRIAN ZONEone grant, 2017 · $62k
- PAPEACE AT HOME FAMILY SHELTER INCone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +0%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE DELTAone grant, 2018 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
provide shelter and care for dogs and cats
Nonprofit animal rescue
homeless animal shelter
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
We are a non-profit, no-kill animal rescue shelterToday, the Humane Society providesMedical treatment for animals,shots and heart worm tests, medications,foster homes, care and feed for fostered animals not housed at the shelter, trailer…
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
The Humane Society Hardy County strives reduce feral animal populations while enhancing the health of our communities and providing for those animals that may be adopted, a safe, nurturing, and healthy environment.
Animal Welfare
Animal welfare
Humane animal shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Pet Savers and the most unlike its peers is Lyon College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 108 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Paws & Claws Humane Society ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KITTIES AND KANINES INC ↗
- Who funds Arkansans Assisting Homeless Animals ↗
- Who funds HEBER SPRINGS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARKANSAS RESCUE EFFORT FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARKANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH CENTRAL ↗
- Who funds Friends of Cabot Animal Support Services ↗
- Who funds H & P ANIMAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UNION COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTICELLO 2ND CHANCE FUR DOGS LLC ↗
- Who funds EQUESTRIAN ZONE ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS PAWS IN PRISON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OZARK HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNDERDOG RESCUE OF ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds HOT SPGS VILG ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF FAULKNER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SALINE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PEACE AT HOME FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE OUACHITAS ↗
- Who funds SPAYARKANSAS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · Petco Love · Greater Good Charities · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Wal-Mart Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.