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Arkansas Children's Hospital

We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.continued on schedule o.arkansas children's will fundamentally transform healthcare delivery for the children of arkansas and beyond.

$14M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$5.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$74MFood & Nutrition$1.7MEducation$1.3MHuman Services$343kRecreation & Sports$192kPhilanthropy$143kYouth Development$93kCommunity Improvement$88kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $8,222,022, the rows itemized in this filing. The $13,563,618 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,341,596 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $227k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $288k
  • $250k+3 grants · $7.7M
$11,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE$5,066,049
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP$1,601,208
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$1,000,000
ARKANSAS CHAMPIONS TRUST$152,000
APPLE SEEDS$80,000
ARKANSAS FOODBANK$56,448
MARCH OF DIMES$46,997
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST$24,020
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$17,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$15,000
THE HELPING HAND OF GREATER LITTLE ROCK$15,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LITTLE ROCK (KOTA CAMP)$15,000
HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE$12,500
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR$11,000
GREAT 100 NURSES FOUNDATION$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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $233k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAMARITAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 8%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $11k → 13%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $11k → 13%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $11k → 13%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $10k → 13%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $10k → 13%BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%ARKANSAS COALITION OF MARSHALLESE: $20k → 14%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $15k → 17%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $13k → 17%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS: $10k → 17%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $8k → 17%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $7k → 17%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS: $7k → 17%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $6k → 17%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $6k → 17%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $6k → 17%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $5k → 17%THEA FOUNDATION: $9k → 17%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ARKANSAS CHAPTER: $10k → 17%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ARKANSAS CHAPTER: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IA
VA
MD
DE
AR
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$78M · 43 repeat orgs$674k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
26

Total granted

$78M
$488k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+2%

Still filing today

91%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AC
    ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $37M · revenue +146%
  • AC
    ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2025 · $25M · revenue +94%
  • AC
    ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • PC
    Pulaski County Special School
    one grant, 2024 · $80k
  • OH
    OUR HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $61k · revenue -15%
  • OB
    OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +11%
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
Arkansas Nonprofit News Network

Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.

Arts & Culture
2
Arkansas Bankers Association Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Arkansans for Education Reform Foundation
Education
4
Arkansas Appleseed Legal Justice Center

Arkansas Appleseed Justice Center is an advocacy organization launched in September 2021 to advance inclusive, collective, and systemic solutions to issues of equity, poverty, and justice facing Arkansans.

Civil Rights
5
Arkansas Rural Health Partnership Inc

The mission of the arkansas rural health partnership is to create and implement sustainable community solutions to improve the southeast arkansas delta's rural health care infrastructure by improving access to health care services,…

Health
6
Arkansas Family Alliance F/K/a Whitsonlife Inc

Ministry for child welfare and families in crisis.

Religion
7
Arkansas Black Hall of Fame Foundat

Provide african american awareness on arkansans who have made important contributions to society

Arts & Culture
8
Arkansas Pharmacy Foundation

Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.

Health
9
Arkansas Cash for Kindness

To provide assistance to those in need living in the community.

Philanthropy
10
Arkansas Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Provide help to domestic violence victims and encourage community efforts to promote domestic peace.

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11
Arkansas Children's Foundation

We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.continued on schedule o.arkansas children's will fundamentally transform healthcare delivery for the children of arkansas and beyond. arkansas children's core values…

Health
12
Arkansas Farm Bureau Scholarship Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families; the most unlike its peers is World Woman Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 75 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
39/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $36,952,596 · OtherARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE+29 more: $1,317,801 · OtherARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25,169,591 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC: $6,141,596 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INCARKANSAS CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP PLLC: $4,877,456 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP PLLC+13 more: $663,065 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $1,042,725 · EducationPhilander Smith College: $75,500 · EducationOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationARKANSAS FOODBANK: $631,102 · Food & NutritionARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC: $172,600 · Food & NutritionHarvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc: $85,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS: $52,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $20,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $171,547 · Human ServicesWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE: $138,975 · Human ServicesThe Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc: $110,000 · Human ServicesARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $65,705 · Human ServicesNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $52,500 · Human ServicesTOPPS-TARGETING OUR PEOPLES PRIORITIES WITH SERVICE: $40,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $40,000 · Human Services+5 more: $75,200 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $120,000 · Community ImprovementWOMENS FOUNDATION OF ARKANSAS: $99,000 · Community ImprovementCrawford-Sebastian Community Development Council Inc: $52,000 · Community ImprovementCOMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LITTLE ROCK INC: $37,500 · Community Improvement+2 more: $16,000 · Community ImprovementAPPLE SEEDS INC: $240,000 · Youth DevelopmentARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $46,669 · Youth Development
Other$38,270,397Health$36,851,708Education$1,168,225Food & Nutrition$960,702Human Services$693,927Community Improvement$364,500Youth Development$286,669

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $36,952,596 over 9y, 14% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25,169,591 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INC: $6,141,596 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP PLLC: $4,877,456 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $1,042,725 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK: $631,102 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $290,982 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAPPLE SEEDS INC: $240,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC: $172,600 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $171,547 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE: $138,975 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC: $116,983 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetThe Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc: $110,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENS FOUNDATION OF ARKANSAS: $99,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetHarvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetArkansas Immunization Action Coalition: $84,680 over 4y, 12% of budgetPhilander Smith College: $75,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION: $74,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $65,705 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $61,007 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEL ZOCALO IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER: $60,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $56,220 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT 100 NURSES FOUNDATION: $54,200 over 7y, 44% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $52,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS: $52,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCrawford-Sebastian Community Development Council Inc: $52,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $46,669 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTOPPS-TARGETING OUR PEOPLES PRIORITIES WITH SERVICE: $40,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP ALDERSGATE INC: $39,906 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LITTLE ROCK INC: $37,500 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetARKANSAS FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL CARE INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING NEIGHBORS FOOD PANTRY: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetArkansas Coalition of Marshallese I: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetST BERNARDS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $19,650 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS AND RELATED INSTITUTIONS INC: $16,821 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS: $16,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGOODNESS VILLAGE: $16,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetARKANSAS ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $12,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION MINISTRIES LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGLOBAL SMILE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $9,700 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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…Arvest FoundationArkansas Hunger Relie…Roy and Christine Stu…Windgate Charitable F…Wal-Mart FoundationRiggs Benevolent FundDelta Dental of Arkan…The Methodist Foundat…Delta Dental Plan of …Heart of Arkansas Uni…The Schmieding Founda…
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR68.5× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Wal-Mart Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc · The Methodist Foundation for Arkansas · Delta Dental Plan of Arkansas Inc · Heart of Arkansas United Way · The Schmieding Foundation

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 Children's Hospital funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arkansas Children's Hospital. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 75 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 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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