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Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation at a glance

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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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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 2024.

Food & Nutrition$2.5MEducation$73kRecreation & Sports$44kArts & Culture$40kReligion$30kYouth Development$30kHealth$15kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $40,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $64,650 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,650 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.
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$82M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARKANSAS FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION$30,000
YELL COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION$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 13%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ARKANSAS YOUTH EXPO: $10k → 14%YELL COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $10k → 16%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $15k → 17%ARKANSAS LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $33k → 17%ARKANAS FFA FOUNDATION: $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%ARKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC: $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
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 5 repeat orgs$355k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$2.5M
$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Food & NutritionRecreation & SportsEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AF
    ARKANSAS FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +48% · 56% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $68k · revenue +122%
  • AF
    ARKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • AF
    ARKANSAS FARM BUREAU SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $257k · revenue -72% · 73% of their budget
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -3%
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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 Bankers Association Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Arkansans for Education Reform Foundation
Education
3
Mississippi Farm Bureau Young Farmer Scholarship Foundation
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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.

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7
Arkansas Seed Dealers Association

Provide services to state seed dealers

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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.

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Ffa Foundation Inc; 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARKANSAS FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION: $2,279,137 · 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 & SportsYELL COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherBOARD CAMP RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10,000 · OtherTHE GROVE: $10,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN CO-OP EFFORT: $10,000 · OtherHARTMAN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $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$2,284,137Philanthropy$257,000Education$97,900Recreation & Sports$87,189Other$50,000Youth Development$30,000Health$25,000Arts & Culture$7,500

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 FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION: $2,279,137 over 8y, 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 FFA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetARKANSAS YOUTH EXPO: $30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELL COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% 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
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.

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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 Farm Bureau Federation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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, 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 16 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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