· Public charity
Arkansas Humanities Council
The purpose of the Arkansas Humanities Council is to promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the humanities in arkansas.
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 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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- HPHISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF ARKANSAS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +76%
- CBCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc5× · 2017–2023 · $51k · revenue +79%
- TOTHE OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT INC2× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- FOFriends of Central Arkansas Librariesone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue -40% · 59% of their budget
- AHARKANSAS HISTORY COMMISSIONone grant, 2017 · $24k
- WRWalnut Ridge Army Flying School Museum Incone 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.
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.
Operating a public 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…
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…
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…
Discover, preserve, and celebrate the history of washington county, arkansas, and to share that heritage with others.
Operation of county museum and preservation of museum assets
Holt co history
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…
Museum
Interpret history of Scott County AR
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.
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.
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 field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
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 2017–2026, 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.
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 HISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries ↗
- Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds EUREKA SPRINGS HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Central Arkansas Library System Foundation ↗
- Who funds OUACHITA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CALICO ROCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds QUAPAW QUARTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Botanical Garden Society Of The Ozarks Inc ↗
- Who funds Fayetteville Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CANE HILL INC ↗
- Who funds OLD INDEPENDENCE REGIONAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Brandon House Cultural and Performing Arts Center ↗
- Who funds Walnut Ridge Army Flying School Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS ASSOC OF INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA ↗
- Who funds The Carroll Madison Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CRAWFORD COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Just Communities of Arkansas Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERFORM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NORTH LITTLE ROCK HISTORY INC ↗
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 · 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.
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.