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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
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $685,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $773,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $88,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $580k
$55,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLACK FRET$155,000
THE HOUSE OF SONGS$155,000
CITY SESSIONS$125,000
THE MUSIC EDUCATION INITIATIVE$90,000
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS JAZZ SOCIETY$55,000
FOLK SCHOOL OF FAYETTEVILLE$30,000
RA-VE CULTURAL FOUNDATION$20,000
MUSIC MOVES$20,000
TEEN ACTION & SUPPORT CENTER$20,000
NOVEL DANCE COMPANY$15,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE MUSIC EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $90k → 8%NORTHWEST ARKANSAS JAZZ SOCIETY: $55k → 14%THE MUSIC EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $85k → 8%NORTHWEST ARKANSAS JAZZ SOCIETY: $50k → 14%TEEN ACTION & SUPPORT CENTER: $20k → 8%MUSIC MOVES: $20k → 14%NOVEL DANCE COMPANY: $15k → 8%MUSIC MOVES: $15k → 14%TEEN ACTION & SUPPORT CENTER: $15k → 8%FOLK SCHOOL OF FAYETTEVILLE: $30k → 14%ARKANSAS PUBLIC THEATRE: $13k → 8%THE HOUSE OF SONGS: $155k → 8%CITY SESSIONS: $125k → 8%RA-VE CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%RA-VE CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$690k · 6 repeat orgs$353k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -8% since the first grant, against -25% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$690k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
-25%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • BF
    BLACK FRET DBA SONIC GUILD
    2× · 2022–2023 · $305k · revenue -34%
  • TM
    The Music Education Initiative
    2× · 2022–2023 · $175k · revenue +7% · 68% of their budget
  • NA
    NORTHWEST ARKANSAS JAZZ SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $105k · revenue -8% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • TS
    THEATRE SQUARED INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -25%
  • RL
    ROGERS LITTLE THEATER
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -42%
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
Rootstock Arts

Foster professional development of creative artists

Arts & Culture
2
Rock Theatre

Instilling a desire in young people to learn to participate in live performances of song and dance.

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3
Roots and All Theatre Ensemble
Arts & Culture
4
Seattle Artists

Musical and other cultural performances and music education for youth

—
5
Rising Jazz Stars
Arts & Culture
6
Black Music Entrepreneurship Incubator

Musical Education and Training

—
7
Arx Music Association

Arx Duos mission is to inspire the creation of new music through equal collaboration with artists, highest quality presentation from the stage, and authentic engagement with audiences and communities everywhere.

Arts & Culture
8
Sumter County Fine Arts Council

Cultural enrichment through arts programs

Arts & Culture
9
Raaga Inc

Promoting classical music

Arts & Culture
10
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
11
Nashville Blues and Roots Alliance
Arts & Culture
12
Cedar City Music Arts Association

Music & arts performances

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Arkansas Jazz Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Teen Action & Support Center. 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 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLACK FRET DBA SONIC GUILD: $305,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK FRET DBA SONIC GUILDThe Music Education Initiative: $175,000 · Arts & CultureThe Music Education InitiativeThe House of Songs: $155,000 · Arts & CultureThe House of SongsNORTHWEST ARKANSAS JAZZ SOCIETY INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST ARKANSAS JAZZ SOCIETY INCRA-VE CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureFOLK SCHOOL OF FAYETTEVILLE INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $27,500 · Arts & CultureCITY SESSIONS INC: $125,000 · OtherCITY SESSIONS INCTHE TEEN ACTION & SUPPORT CENTER: $35,000 · OtherTHE TEEN ACTION & SUPP…MUSIC MOVES LTD: $35,000 · OtherMUSIC MOVES LTDNOVEL DANCE COMPANY INC: $15,000 · OtherNOVEL DANCE COMPANY IN…
Arts & Culture$832,500Other$210,000

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

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
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.

Walton Family Foundat…Wal-Mart FoundationTyson Family Foundati…Arkansas Community Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    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 · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc?

    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.

    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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