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Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc

Cache works with creatives, organizations, and communities to empower a more inspiring, inclusive, and equitable northwest arkansas.

$774k
Granted FY2023
10
Itemized grants FY2023
10
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$685k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$55,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$155,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 10
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$2.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202310$685k40%
FY20228$358kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$1.0MYouth Development$35k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Black Fret Dba Sonic Guild$305,00028%
The Music Education Initiative$175,000268%
The House of Songs$155,000119%
City Sessions Inc$125,000147%
Northwest Arkansas Jazz Society Inc$105,000240%
Ra-Ve Cultural Foundation Inc$35,000210%
The Teen Action & Support Center$35,00024%
Music Moves Ltd$35,00023%
Folk School of Fayetteville Inc$30,000116%
Novel Dance Company Inc$15,0001n/a
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All grantees of Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Black Fret Dba Sonic Guild$305,00028%
The Music Education Initiative$175,000268%
The House of Songs$155,000119%
City Sessions Inc$125,000147%
Northwest Arkansas Jazz Society Inc$105,000240%
Ra-Ve Cultural Foundation Inc$35,000210%
The Teen Action & Support Center$35,00024%
Music Moves Ltd$35,00023%
Folk School of Fayetteville Inc$30,000116%
Novel Dance Company Inc$15,0001n/a
Theatre Squared Inc$15,00010%
Rogers Little Theater$12,50014%

Where it is load-bearing

Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlack Fret Dba Sonic Guild: $305,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetThe Music Education Initiative: $175,000 over 2y, 68% of budgetThe House of Songs: $155,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCity Sessions Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetNorthwest Arkansas Jazz Society Inc: $105,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetRa-Ve Cultural Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetThe Teen Action & Support Center: $35,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMusic Moves Ltd: $35,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFolk School of Fayetteville Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTheatre Squared Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRogers Little Theater: $12,500 over 1y, 3.5% 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 11.

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.

Walton Family Foundation IncAR23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Walton Family Foundation Inc · Wal-Mart Foundation · Tyson Family Foundation Inc · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · 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.

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Find your warmest path to Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc 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.

About Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc

How much does Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc give?
Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc reported 10 itemized grants totaling $685,000, out of $773,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 10 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Youth Development (3%).
Who are Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2023: Black Fret Dba Sonic Guild ($305k), The Music Education Initiative ($175k), The House of Songs ($155k).
Does Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Walton Family Foundation Inc, Wal-Mart Foundation, Tyson Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc based?
Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc 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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $148k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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