· Private foundation
Carol and Witt Stephens Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $670k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $669,515 |
| ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| TALL TIMBERS FOUNDATION | $30,124 |
| ARKANSAS GAME & FISH FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| USET FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NEW LIFE CHURCH | $12,000 |
| ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SCULPTURE AT THE RIVERMARKET | $5,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION | $1,100 |
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 (FY22–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- JSJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +94%
- TTTALL TIMBERS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $466k · revenue +251%
- ASARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVATORYone grant, 2020 · $100k
- PFPHOEBE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -13%
- ECEPISCOPAL COLLEGIATE SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +16%
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.
The primary purpose of the arkansas state university system foundation, inc. (the foundation) is to receive, solicit, accept and hold, administer, invest and disburse any and every kind of property for such education, scientific, literary,…
To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history
We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.continued on schedule o.arkansas children's will fundamentally transform healthcare delivery for the children of arkansas and beyond. arkansas children's core values…
The organization accepts gifts of real and personal property that persons and entities wish to donate to member campuses of the arkansas state university system in support and furtherance of its educational purposes and mission.
The university of arkansas at pine bluff's alumni scholarship endowment fund's mission was created to provide scholarships to the university to assist with providing education and training which meet the needs of a culturally diverse…
To ensure a thriving future for arkansas wildlife. the organization serves as an independent voice for all species of arkansas wildlife, a reliable source of factual information, and an inclusive partner toward the conservation and…
Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.
Arkansas farm bureau foundation (the "foundation") is organized for charitable and educational purposes to further the understanding of agricultural and rural issues, and to support the agricultural and rural community through financial…
See schedule othe exempt purpose of the arkansas bar foundation is to promote the following educational, literary, scientific and charitable purposes: to improve and facilitate the administration of justice; to promote study and research…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 44 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 JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TALL TIMBERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHOEBE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SCULPTURE AT THE RIVER MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds Torrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DARBY'S WARRIOR SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds Personal Pep Rally Inc ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS STATE POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE ARKANSAS GRAND PRAIRIE ↗
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 · Arvest Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · George H Dunklin Jr Charitable Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Union Pacific Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Carol and Witt Stephens Charitable Foundation 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.
- International Game Fish Association Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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