How much does Arkansas Humanities Council give?

Arkansas Humanities Council reported 1 itemized grants totaling $11,193, out of $22,392 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Arkansas Humanities Council fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Education (35%), Environment (2%).

Who are Arkansas Humanities Council's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Arkansas Library ($109k), Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas Inc ($80k), Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries ($60k).

Does Arkansas Humanities Council fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Arkansas Humanities Council?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Walton Family Foundation Inc, Arvest Foundation.

Where is Arkansas Humanities Council based?

Arkansas Humanities Council is based in AR.

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Arkansas Humanities Council

The purpose of the ARKANSAS HUMANITIES COUNCIL is to promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the humanities in arkansas. To achieve its purpose, the council awards grants through a competitive application process to nonprofit groups and organizations so they can plan, conduct, and evaluate projects in the humanities for arkansas…

$22k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 1
Itemized grants FY2025: 11
Organizations funded FY2024: 27%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $11k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $11,193
Largest grant, FY2025: $11,193
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 39; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $328k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Arkansas Humanities Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	1	$11k	0%
FY2024	11	$106k	27%
FY2023	13	$115k	46%
FY2022	2	$12k	0%
FY2021	39	$683k	49%
FY2020	37	$386k	78%
FY2019	7	$67k	57%
FY2018	10	$104k	50%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$965kEducation$566kEnvironment$39kCivil Rights$17kHealth$11kYouth Development$7kHuman Services$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Central Arkansas Library	$109,050	6	n/a
Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas Inc	$80,103	7	14%
Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries	$60,000	1	59%
Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc	$50,625	5	0%
Arkansas Council on Economic Education	$48,121	3	3%
The Oxford American Literary Project Inc	$45,000	2	2%
University of Arkansas at Little Rock	$44,797	3	n/a
Arkansas Imagination Library	$41,700	4	3%
City of Springdale	$40,785	3	n/a
Eureka Springs Historical Museum	$37,256	3	19%

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All grantees of Arkansas Humanities Council by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Central Arkansas Library	$109,050	6	n/a
Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas Inc	$80,103	7	14%
Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries	$60,000	1	59%
Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc	$50,625	5	0%
Arkansas Council on Economic Education	$48,121	3	3%
The Oxford American Literary Project Inc	$45,000	2	2%
University of Arkansas at Little Rock	$44,797	3	n/a
Arkansas Imagination Library	$41,700	4	3%
City of Springdale	$40,785	3	n/a
Eureka Springs Historical Museum	$37,256	3	19%
Central Arkansas Library System Foundation	$36,174	2	5%
Calico Rock Community Foundation Inc	$36,000	2	9%
City of Berryville Saunders Memorial Museum	$36,000	2	n/a
Ouachita County Historical Society	$36,000	2	22%
Quapaw Quarter Association	$35,474	2	10%
University of Arkansas Foundation Inc	$35,000	3	0%
Asc for Se Arkansas	$34,459	3	n/a
Botanical Garden Society Of The Ozarks Inc	$34,112	2	2%
Macarthur Museum of Arkansas Military History	$33,416	2	n/a
Fayetteville Public Library Foundation	$32,020	2	1%
University of Arkansas Fayetteville	$31,252	3	n/a
Historic Cane Hill Inc	$31,013	2	1%
Old Independence Regional Museum	$29,936	2	11%
Brandon House Cultural and Performing Arts Center	$25,493	2	6%
Five Rivers Historic Preservat Inc	$25,200	2	n/a
Walnut Ridge Army Flying School Museum Inc	$22,500	1	22%
County Clerk	$22,054	2	n/a
Arkansas Assoc of Instructional Media	$20,842	2	15%
The Carroll Madison Library Foundation	$19,397	3	9%
Friends of the Crawford County Library System	$19,157	1	86%
Van Buren County Friends of the Library Inc	$18,067	1	n/a
Gann Museum of Saline County	$17,380	1	n/a
Just Communities of Arkansas Inc	$16,869	2	6%
Little River County Historical Society	$16,707	1	n/a
University of Central Arkansas	$16,655	1	n/a
Interform	$16,650	1	2%
Living the Dream Media Inc	$16,466	2	n/a
Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church	$15,831	2	n/a
Friends of North Little Rock History Inc	$14,601	1	96%
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation	$13,500	1	n/a
Museum of Discovery	$13,500	1	1%
Fort Smith Museum of History	$13,500	1	5%
Boone County Historical Railroad	$13,500	1	n/a
Little Rock Zoological Garden	$13,490	1	n/a
Garland County Historical Society	$13,439	1	14%
University of Arkansas Fort Smith	$13,379	1	n/a
Dunbar Historic Neighborhood Association	$12,895	1	24%
Celebrate Maya Project	$12,635	2	n/a
Museum of Veterans and Military History	$11,885	1	72%
Ozark Arts Council Inc	$11,550	1	13%
Arkansas Historical Associationinc	$11,048	2	4%
South Arkansas Historical Preservation Society	$10,000	1	3%
Hispanic Womens Organization of Arkansas	$9,720	1	2%
El Dorado Festivals & Events Inc	$9,497	1	n/a
Carroll County Youth Literacy Rotary Foundation	$9,450	1	18%
Cross County Historical Society	$9,000	1	n/a
Fort Smith Art Center Inc	$8,753	1	2%
Arkansas Holocaust Education Committee	$8,150	1	n/a
Paac	$7,500	1	n/a
University of Arkansas Fayetteville Campus Foundation Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Fort Smith Heritage Foundation Inc	$7,331	1	11%
Hot Spring County Imagination Library	$7,200	1	n/a
Northwest Technical Institute	$7,200	1	n/a
Elaine Legacy Center Inc	$7,100	1	7%
Philander Smith College	$6,750	1	0%
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff	$6,660	1	n/a
Sultana Historical Preservation Society Inc	$6,435	1	n/a
Friends of Berryville Library Inc	$6,352	1	3%
Arkansas Emergency Medical Foundation Inc	$5,930	1	12%
Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives Foundation	$5,856	1	n/a
Arkansas Association of Black Psychology Professionals	$5,500	1	n/a
Watershed Conservation Resource Center	$5,384	1	0%
John Brown University	$5,371	1	0%
PHOEBE People Helping Others Excel By Example	$5,143	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.

Arkansas Humanities Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 43.

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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 IncAR68.3× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Rebsamen Fund · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Mid-America Arts Alliance · Wal-Mart Foundation · The Hussman Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Union Pacific Foundation · The Schmieding 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.

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About Arkansas Humanities Council

How much does Arkansas Humanities Council give?: Arkansas Humanities Council reported 1 itemized grants totaling $11,193, out of $22,392 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Arkansas Humanities Council fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Education (35%), Environment (2%).
Who are Arkansas Humanities Council's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Arkansas Library ($109k), Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas Inc ($80k), Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries ($60k).
Does Arkansas Humanities Council fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Arkansas Humanities Council?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Walton Family Foundation Inc, Arvest Foundation.
Where is Arkansas Humanities Council based?: Arkansas Humanities Council is based in AR.