How much does Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundation give?

Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $3,531,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 33 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.

What does Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (47%), Arts & Culture (29%), Education (14%).

Who are Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Razorback Foundation Inc ($3.9M), American Folk Art Museum ($1.3M), Bentonville Library Foundation ($400k).

Does Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wal-Mart Foundation, Bogle Family Foundation, Walton Family Foundation Inc.

Where is Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundation based?

Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundation is based in AR.

Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundation

Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.5M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$2.5M

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$3.9MArts & Culture$2.4MEducation$1.1MHuman Services$244kScience & Tech$200kReligion$159kPhilanthropy$115kFood & Nutrition$15kOther$0

02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k19 grants · $55k
$10k–50k6 grants · $105k
$50k–250k9 grants · $862k
$250k+1 grant · $2.5M

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$39M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS RAZORBACK FOUNDATION	$2,510,000
WALTON ARTS CENTER	$249,000
THEATRE SQUARED	$105,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH	$100,000
THE CLAIRE ELIZABETH DENNIS MEMORIAL FUND	$100,000
SONA	$82,500
AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM	$75,000
CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS	$50,000
BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION	$50,000
ARCARE FOUNDATION	$50,000
Individual grant recipient	$35,000
FCA - FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES NWA	$20,000
PEEL COMPTON FOUNDATION	$20,000
SAMARITAN COMMUNITY CENTER	$10,000
FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION	$10,000

02The need

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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.4M · 35 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.4M

$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%

-8%

Still filing today

49%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionSocial ScienceOther

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

RF
RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +138%
AF
AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +61%
CF
CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS
4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue ×24

Funded once

UF
US FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $11k
HD
HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC
one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -8%

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.

Ferguson Library Foundation

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The Beller Museum

Arts & Culture

Arkansas Bankers Association Foundation

Philanthropy

Anniston Museum Endowment Corporation

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The Rockwell Museum

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The Artifacts Foundation

—

Keeneland Library and Museum Foundation Inc

Education

Norton Simon Art Foundation

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Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation

The arkansas museum of fine arts foundation was created by the arkansas museum of fine arts in 1972 to manage and administer an endowment fund for the benefit of the museum and to hold legal title to the collection of art objects.

Arts & Culture

Cr Smith Museum Foundation

Arts & Culture

Arkansas Black Hall of Fame Foundat

Provide african american awareness on arkansans who have made important contributions to society

Arts & Culture

Zigler Museum Foundation

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fayetteville Public Library Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Claire Elizabeth Dennis Memorial Fund. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 38 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/18

Grantees still filing

9/18

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$4,355,000Other$2,050,500Arts & Culture$1,661,500Science & Tech$200,000Philanthropy$100,000Human Services$20,500Social Science$15,000Religion$8,500

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

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.

Wal-Mart FoundationAR21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wal-Mart Foundation · Bogle Family Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Inc · Alice L Walton Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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