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Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$14M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $270k
  • $250k+3 grants · $19M
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lyon College$14,316,039
Lyon College$2,783,981
Renaissance Charitable Foundation$2,116,461
Friends of Kitties & Kanines$40,000
Companions Spay and Neuter Clinic$25,000
Paws & Claws Humane Society$25,000
Highway 7 Spay & Neuter$25,000
CARE for Animals Little Rock$20,000
Arkansans Assisting Homeless Animals$18,000
Shoal Bay Animal Haven$15,000
Calhoun Animal Rescue Effort$15,000
Humane Society of Randolph County$15,000
Amys Animal Rescue of Star City$12,000
Union County Animal Protection Society$10,000
Needy Paws Animal Shelter$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%ARKANSANS ASSISTING HOMELESS ANIMALS: $112k → 12%HIGHWAY 7 SPAY AND NEUTER: $33k → 13%ARKANSAS NETWORK IMPROVING ANIMAL LIFE: $30k → 13%Humane Society of North Central Arkansas: $24k → 14%Peace at Home Family Shelter: $40k → 14%COMPANIONS SPAY AND NEUTER CLINIC: $78k → 15%EQUESTRIAN ZONE: $62k → 15%Calhoun Animal Rescue Effort: $30k → 16%PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY: $74k → 17%FRIENDS OF KITTIES & KANINES INC: $68k → 17%NORTHEAST ARKANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY: $45k → 17%CARE for Animals Little Rock: $29k → 17%PURRING PAWS RESCUE & ADOPTIONS: $22k → 19%Needy Paws Animal Shelter: $57k → 19%UNION COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY: $23k → 19%Paws & Claws Humane Society: $56k → 28%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE DELTA: $30k → 35%Renaissance Charitable Foundation: $2.1M → 16%FRIENDS OF CABOT ANIMAL SUPPORT SERVICES: $40k → 12%Heber Springs Humane Society: $29k → 13%Highway 7 Spay & Neuter: $25k → 13%COMPANIONS SPAY AND NEUTER CLINIC: $57k → 15%Calhoun Animal Rescue Effort: $24k → 16%PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY: $73k → 17%FRIENDS OF KITTIES & KANINES INC: $60k → 17%NEEDY PAWS ANIMAL SHELTER: $50k → 19%Paws & Claws Humane Society: $40k → 28%ARKANSANS ASSISTING HOMELESS ANIMALS: $27k → 12%HEBER SPRINGS HUMANE SOCIETY: $22k → 13%COMPANIONS SPAY AND NEUTER CLINIC: $50k → 15%PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY: $45k → 17%Friends of Kitties & Kanines: $41k → 17%NEEDY PAWS ANIMAL SHELTER: $45k → 19%Paws & Claws Humane Society: $38k → 28%Arkansans Assisting Homeless Animals: $24k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF FAULKNER COUNTY: $36k → 15%Friends of Kitties & Kanines: $40k → 17%NEEDY PAWS ANIMAL SHELTER: $30k → 19%Paws & Claws Humane Society: $25k → 28%Arkansans Assisting Homeless Animals: $22k → 12%Companions Spay and Neuter Clinic: $35k → 15%FRIENDS OF KITTIES & KANINES INC: $27k → 17%Needy Paws Animal Shelter: $30k → 19%Companions Spay and Neuter Clinic: $25k → 15%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3.1M → 17%ARKANSAS PAWS IN PRISON: $25k → 17%ARKANSAS PAWS IN PRISON: $25k → 17%ALL ABOUT LABS: $26k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 80% of Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in AR; by stated purpose, 36%.

Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 67 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
38

Total granted

$4.1M
$397k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

51%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsCrime & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HS
    HEBER SPRINGS HUMANE SOCIETY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $114k · revenue +77%
  • CA
    CENTRAL ARKANSAS RESCUE EFFORT FOR ANIMALS INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $102k · revenue +35%
  • NA
    NORTHEAST ARKANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $98k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • EZ
    EQUESTRIAN ZONE
    one grant, 2017 · $62k
  • PA
    PEACE AT HOME FAMILY SHELTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +0%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE DELTA
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Phelps County Animal Rescue

provide shelter and care for dogs and cats

Animals
2
Arkansas Animal Alliance Inc

Nonprofit animal rescue

Animals
3
Golden Ark

homeless animal shelter

Animals
4
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

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.

Animals
5
Stephens County Humane Society

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…

Animals
6
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
7
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
8
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
9
Humane Society of Hardy County Inc

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.

Animals
10
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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11
Project Hope Animal Rescue

Animal welfare

Animals
12
Humane Society of Aransas County

Humane animal shelter

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Pet Savers; 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.
05the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/55
Grantees still filing
31/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LYON COLLEGE: $17,100,020 · EducationLYON COLLEGETHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,058,617 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANC…COMPANIONS SPAY AND NEUTER CLINIC: $301,000 · OtherCOMPANIONS SPAY AND N…Needy Paws Animal Shelter: $250,000 · Other+56 more: $1,562,400 · Other+56 morePaws & Claws Humane Society: $375,064 · AnimalsPaws & Cl…FRIENDS OF KITTIES AND KANINES INC: $289,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS O…Arkansans Assisting Homeless Animals: $247,500 · AnimalsArkansans…HEBER SPRINGS HUMANE SOCIETY: $113,500 · AnimalsCENTRAL ARKANSAS RESCUE EFFORT FOR ANIMALS INC: $101,500 · AnimalsNORTHEAST ARKANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $98,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH CENTRAL: $92,000 · AnimalsFriends of Cabot Animal Support Services: $85,000 · AnimalsH & P ANIMAL ALLIANCE: $83,800 · AnimalsUNION COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY INC: $75,500 · Animals+35 more: $694,025 · Animals+35 moreRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,116,461 · PhilanthropyEQUESTRIAN ZONE: $62,000 · Recreation & SportsARKANSAS PAWS IN PRISON FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$17,100,020Other$5,172,017Animals$2,255,389Philanthropy$2,116,461Recreation & Sports$62,000Crime & Legal$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLYON COLLEGE: $17,100,020 over 1y, 33% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,058,617 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPaws & Claws Humane Society: $375,064 over 7y, 52% of budgetFRIENDS OF KITTIES AND KANINES INC: $289,500 over 8y, 39% of budgetArkansans Assisting Homeless Animals: $247,500 over 7y, 74% of budgetHEBER SPRINGS HUMANE SOCIETY: $113,500 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetCENTRAL ARKANSAS RESCUE EFFORT FOR ANIMALS INC: $101,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetNORTHEAST ARKANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $98,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH CENTRAL: $92,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetFriends of Cabot Animal Support Services: $85,000 over 4y, 66% of budgetH & P ANIMAL ALLIANCE: $83,800 over 8y, 35% of budgetUNION COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY INC: $75,500 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetMONTICELLO 2ND CHANCE FUR DOGS LLC: $75,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetARKANSAS PAWS IN PRISON FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetOZARK HUMANE SOCIETY: $60,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetUNDERDOG RESCUE OF ARKANSAS: $50,100 over 7y, 21% of budgetHOT SPGS VILG ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE: $48,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF FAULKNER COUNTY: $45,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSALINE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $42,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetPEACE AT HOME FAMILY SHELTER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE OUACHITAS: $39,550 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetSPAYARKANSAS: $37,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF BLYTHEVILLE INC: $37,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $35,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetThe Humane Society of Searcy: $30,800 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetHAVE A HEART PET SHELTER: $30,600 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CLARK COUNTY: $25,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetIndependence County Humane Society: $23,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetFAIRFIELD BAY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE: $18,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetARKANSAS PET SAVERS: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSERVICE DOGS OF DISTINCTION INC: $14,600 over 3y, 21% of budgetHumane Society for Animals Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPAWS OF GLENWOOD: $11,745 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS CAT CLUB: $11,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetDIRT ROAD RESCUES: $11,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetPIT RIDGE RESCUE: $11,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetJACKSONVILLE FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetFORREST CITY AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHumane Society of the Ozarks Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBELLA VISTA ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $9,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGREENER DAYS AHEAD RESCUE: $8,500 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF PULASKI COUNTY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL VILLAGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL INTEREST GROUP: $4,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFABULOUS FELINES NWA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNW ARKANSAS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $2,400 over 1y, 13% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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 Fo…Petsmart Charities IncPetco LoveGreater Good CharitiesBISSELL Pet FoundationPedigree FoundationBest Friends Animal S…Leslie L Alexander Fo…Arvest FoundationWal-Mart FoundationHumane World for Anim…Paypal Charitable Giv…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 108 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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