· Private foundation
Elisabeth D Wagner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACKSON HOUSE | $4,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY ANGEL TREE | $4,000 |
| SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF HS | $3,100 |
| COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN CLINIC | $3,000 |
| FIRST STEP INC | $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 |
| COOPER ANTHONY CHILD ADVOCACY | $2,500 |
| TRI-LAKES CASA PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB SALINE CO | $2,000 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| AR SCHOOL MATHMATICS SCIENCES ARTS | $1,995 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- CMCHRISTIANS MINISTRIES COOP CLINICone grant, 2017 · $3k
- BGBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF SALINE CNTYone grant, 2022 · $3k
- MAMID AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM FDNone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 82 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elisabeth D Wagner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elisabeth D Wagner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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