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Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation

Farm bureau is an independent, voluntary organization of farm and ranch families united for the purpose of analyzing their problems and formulating action to achieve educational improvement, economic opportunity, social advancement and promote the national well-being.

$430k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$347k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Food & Nutrition$2.5MEducation$73kRecreation & Sports$44kArts & Culture$40kReligion$30kYouth Development$30kHealth$15kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $391,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $429,903 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,403 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
  • $250k+1 grant · $347k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$76M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARKANSAS FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION$346,500
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$15,000
ARKANSAS YOUTH EXPO$10,000
LAKESIDE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
SACRED HEART CEMETERY$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ARKANSAS YOUTH EXPO: $10k → 14%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $15k → 17%ARKANSAS LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $33k → 17%ARKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%BOARD CAMP RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 17%SACRED HEART CEMETERY: $10k → 19%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 25%LAKESIDE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 27%US CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 9%ARKANSAS YOUTH EXPO: $10k → 14%ARKANSAS LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOC: $23k → 17%ARKANAS FFA FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%ARKANSAS YOUTH EXPO: $10k → 14%ARKANSAS LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $22k → 17%ARKANAS FFA FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%ARKANSAS FOOD BANK: $5k → 17%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF ARKANSAS: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION: $11k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION: $11k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION: $11k → 17%University of Arkansas Foundation: $10k → 17%GRAVES MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 5 repeat orgs$345k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$2.5M
$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AF
    ARKANSAS FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +48% · 56% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $68k · revenue +122%
  • AY
    ARKANSAS YOUTH EXPO
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • AF
    ARKANSAS FARM BUREAU SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $257k · revenue -72% · 73% of their budget
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • BC
    BOARD CAMP RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Arkansas Bankers Association Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Arkansans for Education Reform Foundation
Education
3
Mississippi Farm Bureau Young Farmer Scholarship Foundation
4
Arkansas Land & Farm Development Corporation

The organization provides training and service assistance to farm development, community education programs, land retention, program management, housing, rural and community development

Food & Nutrition
5
Arkansas Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired

The foundation's mission is to broaden and enhance educational and employment opportunities for persons with visual impairments.

Education
6
Arkansas Rice Council

The arkansas rice council is the promotional arm of the arkansas rice industry. the arkansas rice council is affiliated with the usa rice council, which steers the course for domestic and international promotion of u.s.-grown rice.

7
Arkansas Seed Dealers Association

Provide services to state seed dealers

8
Arkansas Advanced Energy Association Inc

Stregthen the advanced energy business cluster in arkansas by conducting workforce development employer forums throughout the state; sponsoring and identifying programs that link innovators to markets; developing strategies to remove…

Youth Development
9
American Farm Bureau Federation

The american farm bureau federation is the voice of agriculture (r). we are farm and ranch families working together to build a sustainable future of safe and abundant food, fiber and renewable fuel for our nation and the world.

10
Arkansas Bar Association

The purposes of the arkansas bar association include the following: advance the administration of justice; foster and maintain on the part of attorneys high ideals of integrity, learning, competence and public service, and high standards…

11
Arkansas Policy Foundation

The arkansas policy foundation is a not-for-profit think tank that conducts research and analyzes the impact of public policies on the people of arkansas. the foundation was founded in 1995 and emphasizes the importance of education and…

Crime & Legal
12
Arkansas Council On Economic Education

To equip prek-12 schools with standard-based resources and professional development to teach economics, personal finance and the free enterprise system using practical, innovative and inspirational methods.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Ffa Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is United States Capitol Historical Society. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARKANSAS FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION — $2,249,137 · Food & NutritionARKANSAS FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION+1 more — $5,000 · Food & NutritionARKANSAS FARM BUREAU SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $257,000 · PhilanthropyARKANSAS F…UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC — $67,900 · EducationARKANSAS YOUTH EXPO — $30,000 · EducationARKANSAS LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $77,189 · Recreation & SportsCHRISTIAN CO-OP EFFORT — $10,000 · OtherHARTMAN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherBOARD CAMP RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT — $10,000 · OtherTHE GROVE — $10,000 · OtherARKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $15,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC — $10,000 · HealthUNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Food & Nutrition$2,254,137Philanthropy$257,000Education$97,900Recreation & Sports$77,189Other$50,000Youth Development$30,000Health$25,000Arts & Culture$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetARKANSAS FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION — $2,249,137 over 7y, 56% of budgetARKANSAS FARM BUREAU SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $257,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetARKANSAS LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $77,189 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC — $67,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS YOUTH EXPO — $30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetARKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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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 Farm Bureau Federation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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