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Bob Carver Charitable Trust % John D Maddox at a glance

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Bob Carver Charitable Trust % John D Maddox

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.3MRecreation & Sports$1.2MArts & Culture$275kHealth$175kReligion$145kHuman Services$90kInternational$90kCommunity Improvement$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS RICH MOUNTAI$60,000
REVITALIZE MENA INC$15,000
SOUTHWEST ARTISTS INC$10,000
OUACHTA LITTLE THEATER$10,000
SANTA FE GIRLS SCHOOL$10,000
MENA BEARAT FOUNDATION$10,000
CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER$10,000
ARGENTA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
THEATRESQUARED$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%7 HILLS HOMELESS CENTER: $10k → 14%7 HILLS HOMELESS CENTER: $10k → 14%CLARICE'S ROOM OF HOPE: $10k → 17%CLARICE'S ROOM OF HOPE: $10k → 17%CLARICE'S ROOM OF HOPE: $10k → 17%CLARICE'S ROOM OF HOPE: $10k → 17%CLARICE'S ROOM OF HOPE: $10k → 17%CLARICE'S ROOM OF HOPE: $10k → 17%CLARICE'S ROOM OF HOPE: $10k → 17%CLARICE'S ROOM OF HOPE: $10k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 17 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
3

Total granted

$3.1M
$220k

Still filing today

65%
0%

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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $875k · revenue +67%
  • CH
    Catholic High School Foundation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +9%
  • PC
    POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • MP
    MENA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • MY
    MENA YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • C
    CASA
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Shepherds Hope Health Centers Inc

Operating health centers

Health
2
Central Delta Historical Society

Museum

Education
3
Princess Theater Foundation

To preserve town by saving movie theater

Human Services
4
Main Street Ozark Inc

To encourage the development, redevelopment, promotion, and improvement of the downtown area in ozark, arkansas through education and historic preservation.

Human Services
5
Cancer Wellness Center Inc

To educate, support and promote the dealing of patients with terminal illness

—
6
Desert Stages Inc

To encourage the love of the theatrical arts and to teach adults and children to enjoy the preforming arts both as a performer and spectator

Arts & Culture
7
Clarksville Little Theatre Inc

Production of theatrical shows

Arts & Culture
8
Garden City Arts Inc

To foster arts and humanities activities in southwest kansas.

—
9
The Bearcat Foundation

Assist mena school athletics

Education
10
Center Stage Theatre Inc

Theatre

Arts & Culture
11
Venture Middle East Dba Venture International

Provide christian relief in the middle east

International
12
The Art Gallery At Nwa Mall Llc

To support local nwa artists

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Theatre Squared Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Santa Fe Girls' School. 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS RICH MOUNTAI: $820,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS RICH MOUNTAIPARK: $300,000 · OtherPARKMENA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $200,000 · OtherMENA PUBLIC SCHOOLSCatholic High School Foundation Inc: $195,000 · OtherCatholic High School Foundation IncMENA REGIONAL SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · OtherSouthwest Artist Inc: $90,000 · OtherMENA BEARAT FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherPOLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $80,000 · OtherOUACHTA LITTLE THEATER: $80,000 · OtherMENA FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $75,000 · Other+3 more: $90,000 · OtherRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC: $875,000 · EducationRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INCTHE SANTA FE GIRLS' SCHOOL: $70,000 · EducationTHE SANTA FE GIRLS' SCHOOLTHEATRE SQUARED INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureCLARICES ROOM OF HOPE: $80,000 · Human ServicesSEVEN HILLS HOMELESS CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesREVITALIZE MENA INC: $35,000 · Community ImprovementCHAMPIONS FOR KIDS: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,115,000Education$945,000Arts & Culture$105,000Human Services$100,000Community Improvement$35,000Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC: $875,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCatholic High School Foundation Inc: $195,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetTHEATRE SQUARED INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMENA REGIONAL SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 4y, 81% of budgetSouthwest Artist Inc: $90,000 over 9y, 30% of budgetPOLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCLARICES ROOM OF HOPE: $80,000 over 8y, 46% of budgetTHE SANTA FE GIRLS' SCHOOL: $70,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetREVITALIZE MENA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetSEVEN HILLS HOMELESS CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHAMPIONS FOR KIDS: $20,000 over 2y, 11% 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.

  • Who funds RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Catholic High School Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THEATRE SQUARED INC ↗
  • Who funds MENA REGIONAL SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Southwest Artist Inc ↗
  • Who funds POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CLARICES ROOM OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds THE SANTA FE GIRLS' SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds REVITALIZE MENA INC ↗
  • Who funds SEVEN HILLS HOMELESS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS ↗

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.

Arvest FoundationArkansas Community Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arvest FoundationAR15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arvest Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bob Carver Charitable Trust % John D Maddox funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bob Carver Charitable Trust % John D Maddox. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 20 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-PF 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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