· Private foundation
Elisabeth D Wagner Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY ANGEL TREE | $4,000 |
| JACKSON HOUSE | $4,000 |
| SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF HS | $3,100 |
| COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN CLINIC | $3,000 |
| COOPER ANTHONY CHILD ADVOCACY | $2,500 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE | $2,500 |
| ARTCHURCH STUDIO EMERGENT ARTS | $2,500 |
| MID AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM FND | $2,500 |
| NATL PARK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FND | $2,500 |
| THE CALL GARLANDHOT SPRING CO | $2,500 |
| FIRST STEP INC | $2,500 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| TRI-LAKES CASA PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB SALINE CO | $2,000 |
| AR SCHOOL MATHMATICS SCIENCES ARTS | $1,995 |
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 (FY17–19, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- SMSAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF HOT SPRINGS9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +13%
- MAMID AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM6× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +46%
- TMThe Muses Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- BGBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF SALINE CNTYone grant, 2022 · $3k
- CMCHRISTIANS MINISTRIES COOP CLINICone grant, 2017 · $3k
- MAMID AMERICA MUSEUM FNDone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Provide access and education emphasizing arts and cultural programs for the people of North central Arkansas and to the art gallery & museum visitors while also preserving the rich history and culture of the Ozark Mountain Region-North…
Promote the arts in the grand prairie region of arkansas
Donate funds to garland county library to enable them to purchase books, reading devices, and software equipment, and to fund children and adult reading programs, special events, and outreach programs.
To awaken the extraordinary power of art and engage individuals and the community through accessible art education.
Operating a public museum
The mission of the Arkansas Air and Military Museum is to establish and maintain a museum for public display of aircraft, aviation artifacts, and military memorabilia from the earliest period to the present with special attention to items…
Spreading art and art education
Theatre Company
Museum
The Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History was established to help further the mission of the Division of Arkansas Heritage; to identify Arkansass Heritage and enhance the quality of life by the discovery,preservation and…
Awareness and use of arkansas public libraries
To raise funds through fundraisers and memberships to help support the upkeep and refurbishment of the arkansas governor's mansion
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Learning Through the Arts and the most unlike its peers is National Park College 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.
16 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. 16 of the 82 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 SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF HOT SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEP INC ↗
- Who funds MID AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The Muses Inc ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES & CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Hot Springs Area Cultural Alliance ↗
- Who funds Literacy Council of Garland County Inc ↗
- Who funds HOT SPRINGS JAZZ SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GARLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Arkansas Learning Through the Arts ↗
- Who funds GARLAND COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds EMERGENT ARTS ↗
- Who funds Garland County CASA Program ↗
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 · Morris Foundation Inc · Munro Foundation · Chi St Vincent Hospital Hot Springs (Fka Mercy Hospital Hot Springs) · C Louis and Mary C Cabe Foundation · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Elisabeth D Wagner Foundation 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.
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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