· Private foundation
Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $940k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $499k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARKANSAS MISSION OF MERCY INC | $600,000 |
| SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH ALLIANCE OF ARKANSAS | $208,154 |
| TRI COUNTY RURAL HEALTH NETWORK INC | $184,117 |
| OTHER GRANTS 5000 | $106,733 |
| CRAWFORD - SEBASTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC | $40,000 |
| RIVER CITY MINISTRY OF PULASKI COUNTY INC | $40,000 |
| SHIRLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| CONWAY REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| HARMONY HEALTH CLINIC | $35,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON COUNTY INC | $30,250 |
| DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | $30,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARK | $30,000 |
| CARTI FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| HISPANIC COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $30,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% 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.
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.
42 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $367k · revenue +52%
- SHSAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $313k · revenue +143%
- MHMAINLINE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $238k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $474k
- ACArkansas Center for Health Improvementone grant, 2021 · $61k
- WRWashington Regional Medical Foundationone grant, 2019 · $53k · revenue -41%
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.
To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education
To provide medical care to the uninsured.
To develop and protect the resources that ensure quality healthcare for all.
To provide quality comprehensive and preventative health care to all residents of the arkansas area without regard to their ability to pay.
To provide services to low income individuals.
To enhance the quality of life for those facing serious illness and loss by surrounding them with love and embracing them with the best in physical, emotional and spiritual care programs and services, and to help donors meet their…
To provide quality affordable primary healthcare to northeast arkansas without regard to financial barriers.
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
Arkansas health care association was organized for the following purposes: (a) to maintain high standard of quality care and administration of nursing homes and similar health care facilities, (b) to create greater opportunities for the…
The mission of arcare is "health for all" with a focus on: customer health, community health, employee health, and organizational health.
Arkansas hospice foundation is a non-profit, charitable 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to raise public awareness and financial support for arkansas hospice and related organization's programs and services, and to help donors meet…
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northwest Arkansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Derek Lewis Foundation 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 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
87 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. 87 of the 143 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 ARKANSAS MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH ALLIANCE OF ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds WELCOMEHEALTH ↗
- Who funds CARTI Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINLINE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY RURAL HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY MINISTRY OF PULASKI COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOUSE NWA INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Arkansas Volunteers in Medicine Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Cancer Resources ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - DIAMONDS OF ARKANSAS OKLAHOMA & TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CARTERS CREW ↗
- Who funds Washington Regional Medical Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMDPA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SHARED BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds CONWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
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 Schmieding Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Alice L Walton Foundation · Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Inc · Heart of Arkansas United Way · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Methodist Foundation for Arkansas
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 Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc 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.
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% 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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