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Cle & Dennis Riordan Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
6
Organizations funded FY2022
33%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2022
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
3 to 21
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 33% of the organizations Cle & Dennis Riordan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Food & NutritionInternationalHealthAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20226$20k33%
FY20213$6k33%
FY202021$74k90%
FY20197$26k57%
FY20188$81k75%
FY20175$41kn/a
84% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$77kHealth$30kReligion$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kFood & Nutrition$19kHousing & Shelter$12kInternational$10kHuman Services$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kontum Missionary and Friendship$10,0001n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$5,00010%
Arkansas Foodbank$5,00010%
Feeding America$5,00010%
Project Hope Food Bank Inc$5,00011%
Arkansas Learning Through the Arts$3,50040%
St Vincent Foundation$2,50010%
Arkansas Freedom Fund Inc$2,50012%
Smile Train Inc$2,00010%
Little Rock Compassion Center$1,0001n/a
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All grantees of Cle & Dennis Riordan Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kontum Missionary and Friendship$10,0001n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$5,00010%
Arkansas Foodbank$5,00010%
Feeding America$5,00010%
Project Hope Food Bank Inc$5,00011%
Arkansas Learning Through the Arts$3,50040%
St Vincent Foundation$2,50010%
Arkansas Freedom Fund Inc$2,50012%
Smile Train Inc$2,00010%
Little Rock Compassion Center$1,0001n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-South Inc$1,00010%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$50010%
Operation Kindness$50010%
Hot Springs-Hot Springs Village Symphony Guild Inc$25010%

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($204k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cle & Dennis Riordan Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArkansas Foodbank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Hope Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetArkansas Learning Through the Arts: $3,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSt Vincent Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArkansas Freedom Fund Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-South Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Kindness: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHot Springs-Hot Springs Village Symphony Guild Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 Foundation IncAR17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · 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.

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About Cle & Dennis Riordan Foundation

How much does Cle & Dennis Riordan Foundation give?
Cle & Dennis Riordan Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $19,911 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Cle & Dennis Riordan Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (31%), Health (12%), Religion (11%).
Who are Cle & Dennis Riordan Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Kontum Missionary and Friendship ($10k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($5k), Arkansas Foodbank ($5k).
Does Cle & Dennis Riordan Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cle & Dennis Riordan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cle & Dennis Riordan Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Arvest Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Cle & Dennis Riordan Foundation based?
Cle & Dennis Riordan Foundation is based in AR.

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 37 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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