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Excellerate Foundation Charitable Support
Excellerate is committed to ensuring that all residents of northwest arkansas are mentally and physically healthy, safe, and economically and socially stable
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $2,483,590 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,967,899 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $484,309 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $312k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE | $646,000 |
| BENTON COUNTY RELIEF FUND | $422,000 |
| BENTONVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $238,140 |
| HUNTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $125,400 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON COUNTY | $109,000 |
| CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE | $100,000 |
| ROGERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $97,200 |
| PEA RIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $97,200 |
| PRAIRIE GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $97,200 |
| GRAVETTE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $75,000 |
| SOAR AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM | $50,000 |
| FOR THE LOVE NWA | $50,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER | $42,200 |
| FEED MY SHEEP SQUARED | $40,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $13.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +29% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 14 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $954k 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
- EFEXCELLERATE FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $2.1M · revenue +306%
- PAPEACE AT HOME FAMILY SHELTER INC3× · 2019–2021 · $380k · revenue +87%
- SHSAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER3× · 2020–2024 · $215k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- TJTHE JONES CENTER FOR FAMILIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13M · revenue +33%
- NTNORTHWEST TECHNICAL INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $5.0M
- TFTRENDSETTERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $375k · revenue -59%
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 help to domestic violence victims and encourage community efforts to promote domestic peace.
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
To provide services to low income individuals.
To provide assistance to victims of domestic abuse and to educate the community to work toward the prevention of family violence.
The organization provides housing assistance, counseling, and education to persons with aids, persons who are hiv positive, and their families and significant others as well as providing related education and training to meet the needs of…
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
Battered women's shelter
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
To nourish northwest arkansas communities by feeding hungry people through partnerships with other hunger relief organizations.
To provide shelter, counseling and other assistance to victims of domestic violence.
Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samaritan House Community Center and the most unlike its peers is The Jones Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 69 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 THE JONES CENTER FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE JONES TRUST ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds EXCELLERATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEVEN HILLS HOMELESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EXCELLERATE FOUNDATION CHARITABLE SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds PEACE AT HOME FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRENDSETTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Canopy NWA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CREDIT COUNSELING OF ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON CO INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds SHARED BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OF B'VILLE BELLA ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ROGERS RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds For The Love ↗
- Who funds THE TEEN ACTION & SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Partners for Better Housing ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Ozark Guidance 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 · Wal-Mart Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Alice L Walton Foundation · Excellerate Foundation · The Schmieding Foundation · Pure Inc · McKinney C & a Charitable Trust · Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Inc · The Methodist Foundation for Arkansas · Tyson Family Foundation Inc
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 Excellerate Foundation Charitable Support 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.
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% 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.