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Arkansas Federal Foundation at a glance

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Arkansas Federal Foundation

$142k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$227kHuman Services$25kEducation$15kHousing & Shelter$8kFood & Nutrition$3kRecreation & Sports$2k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Easter Seals Arkansas$80,000
CARTI Foundation$15,000
Baptist Preparatory School$15,000
Easter Seals Arkansas$10,000
Habitat for Humanity of Central Arkansas$5,000
Alzheimers Arkansas Programs and Services$5,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities$4,500
CARTI Foundation$3,750
Friends of Fisher House Arkansas Inc$2,500
Lonoke County Safe Haven$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%Lonoke County Safe Haven: $2k → 12%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$249k · 5 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$249k
$11k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
HealthHousing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • EA
    EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $110k · revenue +91%
  • CF
    CARTI Foundation Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $34k · revenue +16%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • MH
    Mercy Health
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House of Arkansas
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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 Hospice Inc

To enhance the quality of life for those facing serious illness and loss by surrounding them with love and embracing them with the best in physical, emotional and spiritual care programs and services, and to help donors meet their…

Human Services
2
The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
3
Arkansas Hospice Foundation Inc

Arkansas hospice foundation is a non-profit, charitable 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to raise public awareness and financial support for arkansas hospice and related organization's programs and services, and to help donors meet…

Health
4
Habitat for Humanity of Faulkner County

To helpless less fortunate families to build homes

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5
Arkansas Coalition Against Domestic Violence

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

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6
Foundation of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history

Arts & Culture
7
Habitat for Humanity Pope County Ar

Seeking to put gods love in action by bringing people together to build homes for those in need

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8
Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc

The alliance is a collaborative organization that works on behalf of arkansans facing hunger.

Food & Nutrition
9
Arkansas Health Care Association

Arkansas health care association was organized for the following purposes: (a) to maintain high standard of quality care and administration of nursing homes and similar health care facilities, (b) to create greater opportunities for the…

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10
Rise House Arkansas

To provide assistance to victims of domestic abuse and to educate the community to work toward the prevention of family violence.

Human Services
11
Legal Aid of Arkansas

To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.

Crime & Legal
12
Casa of North Arkansas

The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easterseals Arkansas; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Fisher House Arkansas Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS: $110,000 · HealthEASTERSEALS ARKANSASALZHEIMER'S ARKANSAS PROGRAMS & SERVICES: $75,786 · HealthALZHEIMER'S ARKANSAS PROGRAMS & SERVICESCARTI Foundation Inc: $33,750 · HealthCARTI Foundation IncRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC: $21,500 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC+1 more: $2,500 · HealthTHE BAPTIST PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationMercy Health: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,853 · OtherRonald McDonald House of Arkansas: $1,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterLONOKE COUNTY SAFE HAVEN INC: $1,500 · Human Services
Health$243,536Education$15,000Other$10,853Housing & Shelter$7,500Human Services$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEASTERSEALS ARKANSAS: $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S ARKANSAS PROGRAMS & SERVICES: $75,786 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCARTI Foundation Inc: $33,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC: $21,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE ARKANSAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.9% 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…C Louis and Mary C Ca…Roy and Christine Stu…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · C Louis and Mary C Cabe Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Federal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arkansas Federal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Arkansas Federal Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Arkansas Federal Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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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