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Carol and Witt Stephens Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$976k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$670k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.2MArts & Culture$851kEnvironment$588kReligion$234kAnimals$202kHealth$128kPublic Benefit$40kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $670k
$12,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Darby's Warrior Support: $3k → 16%DARBY'S WARRIOR SUPPORT: $2k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
NJ
CA
VA
AR
TN
GA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 18 repeat orgs$296k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
23

Total granted

$5.0M
$294k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+14%

Still filing today

61%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsEducationHuman 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

  • JS
    JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +94%
  • TT
    TALL TIMBERS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $466k · revenue +251%
  • AS
    ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NATURE CONSERVATORY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • PF
    PHOEBE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -13%
  • EC
    EPISCOPAL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +16%
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 Bankers Association Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Arkansas Farm Bureau Scholarship Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Arkansas State University System Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
4
Foundation of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history

Arts & Culture
5
Arkansas Children's Foundation

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…

Health
6
Arkansas State University Real Estate Foundation Inc

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.

Education
7
Ua-Pb Alumni Scholarship Endowment Fund University of Arkansas

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…

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8
Arkansas Wildlife Federation Inc

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…

Animals
9
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
10
Arkansas Community Foundation Inc

Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.

Philanthropy
11
Arkansas Farm Bureau Foundation

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
Arkansas Bar Foundation

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…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $3,099,515 · PhilanthropyJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION+2 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropyARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION: $800,000 · Arts & CultureARKANSAS MUSEUM O…SCULPTURE AT THE RIVER MARKET INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $10,600 · Arts & CultureNew Life Church: $172,000 · OtherNew Life Ch…THE NATURE CONSERVATORY: $100,000 · OtherTHE NATURE …USET FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherUSET FOUNDA…SALEM FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherSALEM FIRST…Individual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual …ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $30,000 · OtherARKANSAS SI…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20,000 · Other+19 more: $39,970 · Other+19 moreTALL TIMBERS FOUNDATION INC: $465,959 · EnvironmentTALL TIMB…ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH FOUNDATION: $184,500 · AnimalsDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $7,100 · AnimalsPHOEBE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $9,720 · HealthTorrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $1,200 · HealthEPISCOPAL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $11,250 · Education
Philanthropy$3,107,015Arts & Culture$840,600Other$526,970Environment$465,959Animals$191,600Health$115,920Education$61,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $3,099,515 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION: $800,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTALL TIMBERS FOUNDATION INC: $465,959 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetARKANSAS GAME AND FISH FOUNDATION: $184,500 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetPHOEBE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEPISCOPAL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSCULPTURE AT THE RIVER MARKET INC: $30,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $11,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $9,720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $7,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTorrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDARBY'S WARRIOR SUPPORT: $4,625 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPersonal Pep Rally Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetARKANSAS STATE POLICE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE ARKANSAS GRAND PRAIRIE: $500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCARTI Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIRD DOG FOUNDATION INC: $100 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…Arvest FoundationThe Brown Foundation …Raymond James Charita…George H Dunklin Jr C…Riggs Benevolent FundWindgate Charitable F…T Rowe Price Program …Union Pacific Foundat…Renaissance Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR28.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • International Game Fish Association Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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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Find your warmest path to Carol and Witt Stephens Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 44 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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