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· Private foundation

Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$4.3MEducation$1.1MHuman Services$826kYouth Development$470kPhilanthropy$335kFood & Nutrition$220kRecreation & Sports$185kCommunity Improvement$168kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $940k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $499k
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$26,050
Median grant
2
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
RIVER CITY MINISTRY OF PULASKI COUNTY INC$40,000
CRAWFORD - SEBASTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC$40,000
SHIRLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT$40,000
HARMONY HEALTH CLINIC$35,000
CONWAY REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$35,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON COUNTY INC$30,250
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC$30,000
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$30,000
GIRL SCOUTS - DIAMONDS OF ARKANSAS$30,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARK$30,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $12k → 8%Safe Haven Ministries Inc: $10k → 15%HISPANIC COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $40k → 17%LULA MAE'S DAY CENTER INC: $7k → 22%HISPANIC COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $30k → 17%LULA MAE'S DAY CENTER INC: $6k → 22%Samaritan House Community Center: $173k → 8%Hispanic Community Services Inc: $25k → 17%Samaritan Community Center: $30k → 8%Samaritan Community Center: $20k → 8%Neighbor to Neighbor Inc: $9k → 14%SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 8%SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 8%Community Action Program for Central Ark: $10k → 15%Hispanic Community Services Inc: $7k → 17%Samaritan House Community Center: $15k → 8%Samaritan Community Center: $10k → 8%Shared Beginnings: $24k → 14%Shared Beginnings: $18k → 14%RIVER CITY MINISTRY: $40k → 17%Carter's Crew: $31k → 17%River City Ministry: $30k → 17%River City Ministry: $30k → 17%River City Ministry: $30k → 17%River City Ministry: $10k → 17%CARTER'S CREW: $28k → 17%World Services for the Blind: $20k → 17%Arkansas Dream Center Inc: $10k → 17%ARKANSAS MISSION OF MERCY INC: $600k → 17%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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 42 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
81

Total granted

$5.0M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+7%

Still filing today

62%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $367k · revenue +52%
  • SH
    SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $313k · revenue +143%
  • MH
    MAINLINE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $238k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $474k
  • AC
    Arkansas Center for Health Improvement
    one grant, 2021 · $61k
  • WR
    Washington Regional Medical Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $53k · revenue -41%
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 Foundation for Medical Care Inc

To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education

Health
2
Christian Community Care Clinic

To provide medical care to the uninsured.

Health
3
Community Health Centers of Arkansas

To develop and protect the resources that ensure quality healthcare for all.

Health
4
River Valley Primary Care Services

To provide quality comprehensive and preventative health care to all residents of the arkansas area without regard to their ability to pay.

Health
5
Central Arkansas Development Council

To provide services to low income individuals.

Community Improvement
6
Arkansas Hospice Inc

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…

Human Services
7
1ST Choice Healthcare Inc

To provide quality affordable primary healthcare to northeast arkansas without regard to financial barriers.

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8
The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
9
Arkansas Health Care Association

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…

—
10
Arcare

The mission of arcare is "health for all" with a focus on: customer health, community health, employee health, and organizational health.

Health
11
Arkansas Hospice Foundation Inc

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…

Health
12
Legal Aid of Arkansas

To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.

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

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/87
Grantees still filing
45/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $474,124 · OtherIndividual grant recipientARMOM: $395,000 · OtherARMOMVarious: $333,901 · OtherVariousWELCOMEHEALTH: $258,050 · OtherWELCOMEHEALTHOTHER GRANTS 5000: $246,431 · OtherOTHER GRANTS 5000Individual grant recipient: $162,544 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARK: $137,620 · Other+69 more: $1,924,722 · Other+69 moreCARTI Foundation Inc: $258,000 · HealthCARTI Foundation IncMAINLINE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $237,824 · HealthMAINLINE HEALTH SYSTE…TRI COUNTY RURAL HEALTH NETWORK INC: $184,117 · HealthTRI COUNTY RURAL HEAL…ST FRANCIS HOUSE NWA INC: $169,664 · HealthST FRANCIS HOUSE NWA …Baptist Health Foundation Inc: $160,000 · HealthBaptist Health Founda…Central Arkansas Volunteers in Medicine Clinic Inc: $130,000 · HealthCentral Arkansas Volu…Hope Cancer Resources: $70,000 · Health+16 more: $361,197 · Health+16 moreARKANSAS MISSION OF MERCY INC: $600,000 · Human ServicesARKANSAS MISSION OF …SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $313,312 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN HOUSE COMM…RIVER CITY MINISTRY OF PULASKI COUNTY: $180,000 · Human ServicesRIVER CITY MINISTRY …HISPANIC COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $102,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC COMMUNITY S…CARTERS CREW: $59,462 · Human ServicesWashington Regional Medical Foundation: $52,500 · Human Services+14 more: $203,267 · Human Services+14 moreUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $367,004 · EducationUNIVERSITY…SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH ALLIANCE OF ARKANSAS: $267,930 · EducationSCHOOL-BAS…AMDPA Foundation Inc: $49,600 · EducationAMDPA Foun…UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AR FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY AND RURAL EDUCATION: $29,517 · Education+5 more: $59,365 · Education+5 moreARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $228,690 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON CO INC: $30,250 · PhilanthropyHEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $25,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $17,500 · PhilanthropyCrawford-Sebastian Community Development Council Inc: $157,500 · Community ImprovementBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIVING OTHERS AMBITION TOGETHER: $26,795 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY INC: $25,125 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Southeast Arkansas: $18,750 · Youth DevelopmentLIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH: $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEDIATRICS PLUS COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $14,582 · Youth DevelopmentARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $12,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,932,392Health$1,570,802Human Services$1,510,541Education$803,416Philanthropy$331,440Community Improvement$157,500Youth Development$144,252

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $367,004 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $313,312 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetWELCOMEHEALTH: $258,050 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetCARTI Foundation Inc: $258,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetMAINLINE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $237,824 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $228,690 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRI COUNTY RURAL HEALTH NETWORK INC: $184,117 over 1y, 79% of budgetRIVER CITY MINISTRY OF PULASKI COUNTY: $180,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetST FRANCIS HOUSE NWA INC: $169,664 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $160,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCrawford-Sebastian Community Development Council Inc: $157,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Arkansas Volunteers in Medicine Clinic Inc: $130,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetHISPANIC COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $102,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetHope Cancer Resources: $70,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - DIAMONDS OF ARKANSAS OKLAHOMA & TEXAS: $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCARTERS CREW: $59,462 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetAMDPA Foundation Inc: $49,600 over 3y, 14% of budgetLAFAYETTE COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC INC: $48,241 over 2y, 75% of budgetSHARED BEGINNINGS: $42,228 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCONWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $40,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARKANSAS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $39,600 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetConway Regional Health Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON CO INC: $30,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC: $30,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AR FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY AND RURAL EDUCATION: $29,517 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetKENDRICK FINCHER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $29,128 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY INC: $25,125 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC: $23,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $21,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Arkoma Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF AR FT SMITH FOUNDATIONINC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Southeast Arkansas: $18,750 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMINT FOR MORE: $18,436 over 1y, 80% of budgetArkansas Immunization Action Coalition: $17,572 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetLIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH: $17,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMID AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM: $16,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOME CHRISTIAN CLINIC INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Schmieding Founda…Riggs Benevolent FundRoy and Christine Stu…Alice L Walton Founda…Willard & Pat Walker …Heart of Arkansas Uni…Nabholz Charitable Fo…Arkansas Hunger Relie…Walton Family Foundat…The Methodist Foundat…
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR107× affinity62 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 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

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 Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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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 143 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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