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Arkansas Foodbank

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$699k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
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$174kReligion$16kCommunity Improvement$6k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $67,113, the rows itemized in this filing. The $698,701 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $631,588 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMBOY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$15,000
FIRST TRINITY COGIC DBA FEED MY SHEEP$6,113
FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH PANTRY$6,000
VICTORS EMPOWERMENT CENTER$5,000
CABOT CHURCH OF CHRIST$5,000
SOUL FOOD CAFE MISSION$5,000
LET OUR VIOLENCE END - LOVE INC$5,000
GREATER CROSSETT AREA FOOD PANTRY$5,000
HOPE'S CLOSET AND PANTRY$5,000
SEQUELL MB CHURCH DBA HELPING HAND MINISTRY$5,000
SALVATION ARMY -RUSSELLVILLE$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%LET OUR VIOLENCE END - LOVE INC: $5k → 10%CLEBURNE COUNTY CARES: $7k → 13%FAMILY RESOURCE: $6k → 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 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
Gods Pantry

Provide food and clothing for the needy

Food & Nutrition
2
The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc

Provide nutrition, assistance and hope to every person seeking support through its ministry. families served-9,016; recipients-36,065; new families-2,556

Human Services
3
House of Hope Rescue Mission

The house of hope rescue mission is a "day shelter" for the homeless and needy, providing food, clothing, shelter, and general services to the homeless and needy persons in around springdale, arkansas.

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4
Compassion Food Ministry of Ms Inc

Food To The Needy

Food & Nutrition
5
Northwest Arkansas Food Bank

To nourish northwest arkansas communities by feeding hungry people through partnerships with other hunger relief organizations.

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6
Food Bank of North Central Arkansas

Food bank that distributes food supplies to families in need in nine counties.

Food & Nutrition
7
Compassion Center of Nwa Inc

Compassion nwa is a non-profit organization committed to creating locally sourced opportunities to give, serve, and engage a community in need while building a sustainable grace driven organization that offers hope to the hurting.

Community Improvement
8
Pratt County Foodbank Inc

County food bank to assist with food needs of limited income families

Food & Nutrition
9
New Hearts Ministries of Arkansas

Non-profit recovery home for women

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10
United Ministries Food Bank of Robertson Co Inc

Food bank

Human Services
11
Christs Food Center Inc

Provide emergency food to families experiencing disaster and assist low income seniors, disabled and veterans in monthly food needs

Food & Nutrition
12
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Family Enrichment Center; the most unlike its peers is Let Our Violence End. 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

18 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. 18 of the 21 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUL FOOD CAFE MISSION INC: $40,807 · OtherSOUL FOOD CAFE MISSION INCARKANSAS BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION: $20,331 · OtherARKANSAS BAPTIST STATE CONVENTIONAMBOY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $15,000 · OtherAMBOY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRYCHRISTIAN CO-OP EFFORT: $12,650 · OtherCHRISTIAN CO-OP EFFORTFAITH FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $12,417 · OtherFAITH FELLOWSHIP CHURCHCHURCH AT ROCK CREEK: $10,800 · OtherCHURCH AT ROCK CREEKCHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST INC: $6,113 · OtherFRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH PANTRY: $6,000 · OtherTABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH OF NORTH LITTLE ROCK: $5,859 · Other+8 more: $41,220 · Other+8 moreCLEBURNE COUNTY CARES INC: $7,452 · Human ServicesCLEBURNE C…Family Resource Service of Lonoke Inc: $5,610 · Human ServicesFamily Res…Let Our Violence End: $5,000 · Human ServicesLet Our Vi…POTLUCK INC: $5,800 · Food & Nutrition
Other$171,197Human Services$18,062Food & Nutrition$5,800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEBURNE COUNTY CARES INC: $7,452 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPOTLUCK INC: $5,800 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds CLEBURNE COUNTY CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds POTLUCK INC ↗
  • Who funds Family Resource Service of Lonoke Inc ↗
  • Who funds Let Our Violence End ↗

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 Foundation IncAR28.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc · Southern Bancorp Capital Partners · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Foodbank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arkansas Foodbank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $513k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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