· Public charity
Arkansas Public School Resource Center
To provide assistance and professional development services to children, parents, faculty and staff of open enrollment, public, charter, and rural schools.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $12,558,519 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,960,679 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $402,160 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
- $250k+14 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROWLEY'S RIDGE COOP | $2,648,443 |
| FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE | $1,914,838 |
| AMS SCHOOLS - ARKANSAS INC | $1,250,000 |
| MOUNTAINBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,248,850 |
| NEWPORT SD | $1,102,592 |
| ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGHSCHOOL | $727,948 |
| INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE ARTS | $577,176 |
| SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES NWA | $574,862 |
| MOUNTAIN HOME PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $568,527 |
| GARFIELD SCHOLARS ACADEMY | $493,362 |
| ARKANSAS MILITARY AND FIRST RESPONDERS ACADEMY | $391,798 |
| WEST WIND SCHOOL FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $359,684 |
| LISA ACADEMY | $355,433 |
| RESPONSIVE EDUCATION SOLUTIONS | $306,609 |
| VILONIA PATHWAYS ACADEMY | $27,856 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $443k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- FAFRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ARKANSAS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +287%
- LSLITTLE SCHOLARS OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +193%
- RTRESPONSIVEED TEXAS6× · 2020–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- SASCHOLARMADE ACHIVEMENT PLACE OF ARKANSASgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $80k · revenue +82%
- WFWEST FORK SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $60k
- SCSTAR CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $35k
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.
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To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
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Education
To provide a safe and nurturing environment where students, through a rigorous academic program, will be prepared for college.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scholarmade Achivement Place of Arkansas and the most unlike its peers is Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter in Dba Everhope Arkansas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 43 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 FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SCHOLARS OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESPONSIVEED TEXAS ↗
- Who funds FUTURE SCHOOL OF FORT SMITH ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT SCHOOL DISTRICT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMICS PLUS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Arkansas Schools for Advanced Studies ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds E-STEM HIGH PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARMADE ACHIVEMENT PLACE OF ARKANSAS ↗
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 · Share Our Strength · Environmental and Spatial Technology Inc · Arkansas STEM Coalition · Save The Children Federation Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Public School Resource Center 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.