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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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

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
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $11,193, the rows itemized in this filing. The $22,392 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,199 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.
$11,193
Median grant
1
States reached
$328k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK$11,193
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY: $14k → 17%University of Arkansas at Fayetteville: $13k → 14%Central Arkansas Library System: $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
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.

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

32 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
43

Total granted

$1.1M
$525k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+19%

Still filing today

66%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHuman 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

  • 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%
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 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
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
4
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
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
Arkansas Historical Associationinc

To promote the preservation, writing, publishing, teaching and understanding of arkansas state history through the publication of the arkansas historical quarterly as well as other activities.

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Central Delta Historical Society

Museum

Education
11
Scott County Museum of History

Interpret history of Scott County AR

Arts & Culture
12
Old State House Museum Association

Further promotion of the old state house - a historical structure located in little rock, arkansas

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Smith Museum of History; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $31,252 · Other+22 more: $275,752 · 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…CALICO ROCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 · Arts & CultureCALICO ROCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCOUACHITA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $36,000 · Arts & CultureOUACHITA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYOLD 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$738,241Arts & Culture$555,294Education$212,519Youth Development$48,121Community Improvement$43,908Environment$39,496Health$5,930Human Services$5,143

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCALICO ROCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetOUACHITA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $36,000 over 2y, 22% 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 budgetMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY: $13,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY: $13,500 over 1y, 5.3% 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
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…Walton Family Foundat…Arvest FoundationRebsamen FundRoy and Christine Stu…Windgate Charitable F…Mid-America Arts Alli…Wal-Mart FoundationThe Hussman FoundationRiggs Benevolent FundUnion Pacific Foundat…The Schmieding Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arkansas Humanities Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arkansas Humanities Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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, 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 75 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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