Arkansas · 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.
- $20M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $14,316,039
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
AnimalsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $17M | 4% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $731k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $592k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $706k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $785k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $571k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $251k | 55% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $345k | 78% |
99% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Education$17MAnimals$4.3MEnvironment$3.1MPhilanthropy$2.1MRecreation & Sports$62kHuman Services$55kReligion$8kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyon College | $17,100,020 | 1 | 33% |
| Paws & Claws Humane Society | $375,064 | 7 | 52% |
| Friends of Kitties and Kanines Inc | $289,500 | 8 | 39% |
| Arkansans Assisting Homeless Animals | $247,500 | 7 | 74% |
| Heber Springs Humane Society | $113,500 | 6 | 7% |
| Central Arkansas Rescue Effort for Animals Inc | $101,500 | 4 | 10% |
| Northeast Arkansas Humane Society Inc | $98,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Highway 7 Spay and Neuter | $97,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Shoal Bay Animal Haven | $96,300 | 8 | n/a |
| Humane Society of North Central | $92,000 | 9 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyon College | $17,100,020 | 1 | 33% |
| Paws & Claws Humane Society | $375,064 | 7 | 52% |
| Friends of Kitties and Kanines Inc | $289,500 | 8 | 39% |
| Arkansans Assisting Homeless Animals | $247,500 | 7 | 74% |
| Heber Springs Humane Society | $113,500 | 6 | 7% |
| Central Arkansas Rescue Effort for Animals Inc | $101,500 | 4 | 10% |
| Northeast Arkansas Humane Society Inc | $98,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Highway 7 Spay and Neuter | $97,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Shoal Bay Animal Haven | $96,300 | 8 | n/a |
| Humane Society of North Central | $92,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Friends of Cabot Animal Support Services | $85,000 | 4 | 66% |
| H & P Animal Alliance | $83,800 | 8 | 35% |
| Union County Animal Protection Society Inc | $75,500 | 8 | 6% |
| Monticello 2nd Chance Fur Dogs LLC | $75,000 | 7 | 15% |
| Kc Pet Rescue | $73,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Amys Animal Rescue of Star City Inc | $65,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Equestrian Zone | $62,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arkansas Paws in Prison Foundation | $60,000 | 3 | 26% |
| Ozark Humane Society | $60,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Underdog Rescue of Arkansas | $50,100 | 7 | 21% |
| Hot Spgs Vilg Animal Welfare League | $48,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Humane Society of Faulkner County | $45,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Volunteer Low Cost Spay & Neuter Clinic | $43,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Purring Paws Rescue & Adoption | $42,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Saline County Humane Society | $42,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Arkansas Network Improving Animal Life | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Peace at Home Family Shelter Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Humane Society of the Ouachitas | $39,550 | 3 | 9% |
| Love for Whiskers and Paws | $38,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Spayarkansas | $37,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Friends of Horseshoe Bend Animals | $37,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Humane Society of Blytheville Inc | $37,500 | 3 | 14% |
| Jackson County Humane Society Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 20% |
| Five Rivers Animal Aid | $33,500 | 4 | n/a |
| The Humane Society of Searcy | $30,800 | 2 | 8% |
| Have a Heart Pet Shelter | $30,600 | 5 | 5% |
| Friends of Prairie Grove Pound | $30,400 | 4 | n/a |
| Humane Society of the Delta | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jefferson County Humane Society Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Humane Society of Clark County | $25,500 | 3 | 4% |
| Independence County Humane Society | $23,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Hope for Paws Inc | $22,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Fairfield Bay Animal Protection League | $18,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Arkansas Pet Savers | $15,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Service Dogs of Distinction Inc | $14,600 | 3 | 21% |
| Paragould Animal Welfare Society | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Humane Society for Animals Inc | $14,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Furget Me Not | $12,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Humane Society of Eastern Arkansas Inc | $12,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Paws of Glenwood | $11,745 | 2 | 9% |
| Guardian Angels Cat Club | $11,500 | 3 | 4% |
| Dirt Road Rescues | $11,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Pit Ridge Rescue | $11,000 | 2 | 23% |
| Jacksonville Friends of the Animals Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Forrest City Area Humane Society | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Reaching for Life Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Humane Society of the Ozarks Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Chicot County Humane Shelter | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arkanpaws Animal Rescue Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bella Vista Animal Shelter Inc | $9,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Greener Days Ahead Rescue | $8,500 | 2 | 7% |
| Good Shepherd Humane Society | $8,000 | 2 | 1% |
| For Pets Sake | $7,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Humane Society of Pulaski County | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Osceola Animal Shelter Help for the Paws | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Novastar Rescue Inc | $5,120 | 2 | n/a |
| Cuddles Forever | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Animal Village Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Feline Fix Them | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Hearts Rescue LLC | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Charleston Animal Interest Group | $4,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Ozark Homeward Bound | $4,480 | 1 | n/a |
| Feline Rescue and Rehome Inc | $3,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Project Feral Cats Corp | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fabulous Felines Nwa Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Charlies Fund | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Nw Arkansas Animal Rescue Inc | $2,400 | 1 | 13% |
| Loco Bonita Ranch | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Morning Meadow Animal Rescue | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| H E L P Rescue | $2,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Welsh Pony & Cob Foundation | $250 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 48.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR36× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation
- How much does Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation give?
- Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $19,526,481 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (64%), Animals (16%), Environment (11%).
- Who are Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lyon College ($17M), Paws & Claws Humane Society ($375k), Friends of Kitties and Kanines Inc ($290k).
- Does Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Petsmart Charities Inc, Petco Love.
- Where is Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation based?
- Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation is based in AR.
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