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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.

$324k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$965kEducation$566kEnvironment$39kCivil Rights$17kHealth$11kYouth Development$7kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $106,232 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $323,945 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $217,713 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 $10k6 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
$9,253
Median grant
1
States reached
$339k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Central Arkansas Library System$14,250
Arkansas Association of Instructional Media$13,342
University of Arkansas at Little Rock$13,059
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville$12,859
Preserve Arkansas$11,689
Historic Cane Hill Inc$9,253
Arkansas Imagination Library$7,500
Living the Dream MediaInc$7,466
Arkansas Emergency Medical Foundation$5,930
Arkansas Association of Black Psychology Professionals$5,500
Watershed Conservation Resource Center$5,384
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%GANN MUSEUM OF SALINE COUNTY: $17k → 10%BOONE COUNTY LIBRARY: $16k → 13%CALICO ROCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $23k → 14%BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY OF THE OZARKS INC: $21k → 14%OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT: $38k → 15%OLD INDEPENDENCE REGIONAL MUSEUM: $23k → 15%EUREKA SPRINGS HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $22k → 16%CRAWFORD COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $19k → 16%LITTLE RIVER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17k → 17%FORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY: $14k → 17%GARLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13k → 17%OUACHITA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $23k → 18%WALNUT RIDGE ARMY FLYING SCHOOL MUSEUM INC: $23k → 19%VAN BUREN COUNTY LIBRARY: $18k → 20%RANDOLPH COUNTY HERITAGE MUSEUMFIVE RIVERS HIST: $16k → 20%ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS: $14k → 22%BOONE COUNTY HISTORICAL & RAILROAD SOCIETY: $14k → 13%CALICO ROCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $14k → 14%INTERFORM: $17k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: $17k → 15%CENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARY SYSTEM: $60k → 17%Arkansas Association of Instructional Media: $13k → 17%OUACHITA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14k → 18%BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY OF THE OZARKS INC: $14k → 14%CENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $43k → 17%HISTORIC CANE HILL INC: $22k → 14%CENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARY SYSTEM: $30k → 17%ARKANSAS HISTORY COMMISSION: $24k → 17%SHILOH MUSEUM OF OZARK HISTORY: $22k → 14%CITY OF BERRYVILLE SAUNDERS MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $23k → 16%ARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $22k → 17%SHILOH MUSEUM OF OZARK HISTORY: $13k → 14%CITY OF BERRYVILLE SAUNDERS MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $14k → 16%CENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $17k → 17%CENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARY SYSTEM: $15k → 17%Central Arkansas Library System: $14k → 17%FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $23k → 14%Central Arkansas Library System: $14k → 17%University of Arkansas at Fayetteville: $13k → 14%MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY: $14k → 17%DUNBAR HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $13k → 17%MACARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY: $21k → 17%Friends of North Little Rock History: $15k → 17%MACARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY: $13k → 17%UALR: $26k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%University of Arkansas at Little Rock: $13k → 17%BRANDON HOUSE: $13k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 32 repeat orgs$525k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
40

Total granted

$1.1M
$508k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+19%

Still filing today

66%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • HP
    HISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF ARKANSAS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +76%
  • CB
    Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc
    5× · 2017–2023 · $51k · revenue +79%
  • TO
    THE OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue -40% · 59% of their budget
  • AH
    ARKANSAS HISTORY COMMISSION
    one grant, 2017 · $24k
  • WR
    Walnut Ridge Army Flying School Museum Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue -39%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Arkansas Country Doctor Museum

Operating a public museum

Arts & Culture
2
Arkansas Air and Military Museum

The mission of the Arkansas Air and Military Museum is to establish and maintain a museum for public display of aircraft, aviation artifacts, and military memorabilia from the earliest period to the present with special attention to items…

Arts & Culture
3
Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc

The Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History was established to help further the mission of the Division of Arkansas Heritage; to identify Arkansass Heritage and enhance the quality of life by the discovery,preservation and…

Arts & Culture
4
Historic Arkansas Museum Foundation

The historic arkansas museum foundation: the foundation exists to support the historic arkansas museum thorugh activities that foster history and culture education through fundraising efforts that increase access to educational programming…

Arts & Culture
5
Washington County Historical Society

Discover, preserve, and celebrate the history of washington county, arkansas, and to share that heritage with others.

Arts & Culture
6
Sumter Museum

Operation of county museum and preservation of museum assets

Arts & Culture
7
Holt county historical society

Holt co history

Arts & Culture
8
Ozark Heritage Arts Center

Provide access and education emphasizing arts and cultural programs for the people of North central Arkansas and to the art gallery & museum visitors while also preserving the rich history and culture of the Ozark Mountain Region-North…

Arts & Culture
9
Central Delta Historical Society

Museum

Education
10
Scott County Museum of History

Interpret history of Scott County AR

Arts & Culture
11
Anniston Museum Endowment Corporation
12
Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie

Maintaining cultural service and enhancement for local area history as a benefit to tourism and area agriculture needs since its economy is extremely dependent on agriculture and rice milling.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Smith Museum of History and the most unlike its peers is Walnut Ridge Army Flying School Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyArkansas Community Support …Business & Economic Develop…Professional Industry Assoc…Arkansas Educational Schola…Poverty & Crisis Support Se…Community Arts & ServicesCommunity Advocacy Organiza…Libraries and Cultural Muse…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%23%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr15%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%17%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr14%32%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr15%15%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/74
the rest of the field
16%
1,206/7,344

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.

04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 75 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
24/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARY — $109,050 · OtherCENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARYFriends of Central Arkansas Libraries — $60,000 · OtherFriends of Central Arkansas LibrariesUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK — $44,797 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCKCity of Springdale — $40,785 · OtherCity of SpringdaleEUREKA SPRINGS HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $37,256 · OtherCITY OF BERRYVILLE SAUNDERS MEMORIAL MUSEUM — $36,000 · OtherQUAPAW QUARTER ASSOCIATION — $35,474 · OtherASC FOR SE ARKANSAS — $34,459 · OtherMACARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY — $33,416 · OtherARKANSAS HISTORY COMMISSION — $24,387 · Other+22 more — $271,424 · Other+22 moreHISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF ARKANSAS INC — $80,103 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF ARKA…Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc — $50,625 · Arts & CultureCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art…THE OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT I…OUACHITA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $36,000 · Arts & CultureOUACHITA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYCALICO ROCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $36,000 · Arts & CultureCALICO ROCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCOLD INDEPENDENCE REGIONAL MUSEUM — $29,936 · Arts & CultureOLD INDEPENDENCE REGIONAL MUSEUMBrandon House Cultural and Performing Arts Center — $25,493 · Arts & CultureFIVE RIVERS HISTORIC PRESERVAT INC — $25,200 · Arts & CultureWalnut Ridge Army Flying School Museum Inc — $22,500 · Arts & CultureARKANSAS ASSOC OF INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA — $20,842 · Arts & Culture+16 more — $183,595 · Arts & Culture+16 moreARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY — $41,700 · EducationARKANSAS IMAGI…Central Arkansas Library System Foundation — $36,174 · EducationCentral Arkans…UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …Fayetteville Public Library Foundation — $32,020 · EducationFayetteville P…The Carroll Madison Library Foundation — $19,397 · EducationThe Carroll Ma…FRIENDS OF THE CRAWFORD COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM — $19,157 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE…CARROLL COUNTY YOUTH LITERACY ROTARY FOUNDATION — $9,450 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE CAMPUS FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · Education+2 more — $12,121 · Education+2 moreARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $48,121 · Youth DevelopmentHISTORIC CANE HILL INC — $31,013 · Community ImprovementDUNBAR HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION — $12,895 · Community ImprovementBotanical Garden Society Of The Ozarks Inc — $34,112 · EnvironmentWATERSHED CONSERVATION RESOURCE CENTER — $5,384 · EnvironmentARKANSAS EMERGENCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,930 · HealthPHOEBE People Helping Others Excel By Example — $5,143 · Human Services
Other$727,048Arts & Culture$555,294Education$212,519Youth Development$48,121Community Improvement$43,908Environment$39,496Health$5,930Human Services$5,143

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF ARKANSAS INC — $80,103 over 7y, 14% of budgetFriends of Central Arkansas Libraries — $60,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc — $50,625 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $48,121 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT INC — $45,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY — $41,700 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetEUREKA SPRINGS HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $37,256 over 3y, 19% of budgetCentral Arkansas Library System Foundation — $36,174 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetOUACHITA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $36,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCALICO ROCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $36,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetQUAPAW QUARTER ASSOCIATION — $35,474 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBotanical Garden Society Of The Ozarks Inc — $34,112 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFayetteville Public Library Foundation — $32,020 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHISTORIC CANE HILL INC — $31,013 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOLD INDEPENDENCE REGIONAL MUSEUM — $29,936 over 2y, 11% of budgetBrandon House Cultural and Performing Arts Center — $25,493 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetWalnut Ridge Army Flying School Museum Inc — $22,500 over 1y, 22% of budgetARKANSAS ASSOC OF INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA — $20,842 over 2y, 15% of budgetThe Carroll Madison Library Foundation — $19,397 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CRAWFORD COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM — $19,157 over 1y, 86% of budgetJust Communities of Arkansas Inc — $16,869 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetINTERFORM — $16,650 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF NORTH LITTLE ROCK HISTORY INC — $14,601 over 1y, 96% of budgetFORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY — $13,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY — $13,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGARLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $13,439 over 1y, 14% of budgetDUNBAR HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION — $12,895 over 1y, 24% of budgetMUSEUM OF VETERANS AND MILITARY HISTORY — $11,885 over 1y, 72% of budgetOZARK ARTS COUNCIL INC — $11,550 over 1y, 13% of budgetARKANSAS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONINC — $11,048 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSOUTH ARKANSAS HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHISPANIC WOMENS ORGANIZATION OF ARKANSAS — $9,720 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCARROLL COUNTY YOUTH LITERACY ROTARY FOUNDATION — $9,450 over 1y, 18% of budgetFORT SMITH ART CENTER INC — $8,753 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE CAMPUS FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORT SMITH HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $7,331 over 1y, 11% of budgetELAINE LEGACY CENTER INC — $7,100 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetPhilander Smith College — $6,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BERRYVILLE LIBRARY INC — $6,352 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetARKANSAS EMERGENCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,930 over 1y, 12% of budgetWATERSHED CONSERVATION RESOURCE CENTER — $5,384 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY — $5,371 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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

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 Humanities Council 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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