· Public charity
Arkansas Farm Bureau Foundation
ARKANSAS FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION (the "foundation") is organized for charitable and educational purposes to further the understanding of agricultural and rural issues, and to support the agricultural and rural community through financial support for education, research, litigation, and disaster relief.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $658,509 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $889,072 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $230,563 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
- Under $10k7 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $566k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVIC | $150,000 |
| UAMS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ARKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION | $88,484 |
| ARKANSAS HUNTERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY | $77,725 |
| ASU SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| ATU FOUNDATIONS | $75,000 |
| ANVIL METALS & FABRICATIONS | $10,000 |
| ARKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TEXAS FARM BUREAU AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GRAVETTE FFA | $8,100 |
| DEQUEEN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $8,000 |
| ARKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION | $7,600 |
| ARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION | $7,600 |
| HEMPSTEAD COUNTY FARM BUREAU | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Arkansas Farm Bureau Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in AR; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AFARKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $813k · revenue +8% · 50% of their budget
- A4ARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +72%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +191%
- LSLONOKE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -99% · 55% of their budget
- NANational Agriculture in the Classroom Organizationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +80%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Arkansas farm bureau foundation (the "foundation") is organized for charitable and educational purposes to further the understanding of agricultural and rural issues, and to support the agricultural and rural community through financial…
The organization provides training and service assistance to farm development, community education programs, land retention, program management, housing, rural and community development
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.
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.
To serve as the state advocate for all segments of the arkansas rice industry, with a mission to promote and protect the interests of producers, millers, merchants and allied businesses.
The organization's mission is to provide funds for research and education in agriculture in the state of mississippi.
To promote and encourage agriculture production by educating youth and sponsoring exhibitions of livestock and farm products.
Leon County works to preserve and promote agriculture and to protect the American Family farming way of life.
The mission of the alabama farmers federation, a nation's leading farm organization, is to ensure unlimited opportunities for our rural and agricultural community, through active, well-informed members, emphasing education, research,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Future Farmers of America - Ark Chapter and the most unlike its peers is Garrett Memorial Christian School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 37 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ARKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS HUNTERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BEAVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LONOKE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization ↗
- Who funds FOUR STATES FAIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNBELT AGRICULTURAL EXPOSITION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FARM BUREAU AG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARRETT MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds Orgaization for Youth in Agriculture ↗
- Who funds NC FARM BUREAU FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA - ARK CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds HEMPSTEAD COUNTY FARM BUREAU ↗
- Who funds VAN BUREN COUNTY FARM BUREAU ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LONOKE COUNTY FARM BUREAU ↗
- Who funds BOOMTIME MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CRAIGHEAD COUNTY FARM BUREAU ↗
- Who funds OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Foundation 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.
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.