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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

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$646k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$16MHuman Services$14MEducation$14MHealth$2.2MHousing & Shelter$639kCommunity Improvement$435kPublic Safety & Disaster$422kYouth Development$240kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $2,483,590, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,967,899 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $484,309 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $312k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$161M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PEA RIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT$97,200
PRAIRIE GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT$97,200
ROGERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS$97,200
GRAVETTE SCHOOL DISTRICT$75,000
SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER$50,000
SOAR AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM$50,000
FOR THE LOVE NWA$50,000
CHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER$42,200
FEED MY SHEEP SQUARED$40,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDRENS SHELTER INC: $11k → 8%CREDIT COUNSELING OF ARKANSAS: $100k → 14%CREDIT COUNSELING OF ARKANSAS: $9k → 14%JONES CENTER FOR FAMILIES INC (V): $12.6M → 14%7HILLS HOMELESS CENTER: $305k → 14%7HILLS HOMELESS CENTER: $70k → 14%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $40k → 14%7HILLS HOMELESS CENTER: $33k → 14%DRESS FOR SUCCESS NWA: $23k → 8%7HILLS HOMELESS CENTER: $25k → 14%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $15k → 14%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $15k → 14%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $10k → 14%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $10k → 14%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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 26 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
27

Total granted

$25M
$19M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
0%

Still filing today

54%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $954k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • EF
    EXCELLERATE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $2.1M · revenue +306%
  • PA
    PEACE AT HOME FAMILY SHELTER INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $380k · revenue +87%
  • SH
    SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER
    3× · 2020–2024 · $215k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JONES CENTER FOR FAMILIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13M · revenue +33%
  • NT
    NORTHWEST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $5.0M
  • TF
    TRENDSETTERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $375k · revenue -59%
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 Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Provide help to domestic violence victims and encourage community efforts to promote domestic peace.

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2
Casa of North Arkansas

The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights
3
Central Arkansas Development Council

To provide services to low income individuals.

Community Improvement
4
Rise House Arkansas

To provide assistance to victims of domestic abuse and to educate the community to work toward the prevention of family violence.

Human Services
5
Northeast Arkansas Regional Aids Network Dba Arkansas Supportive Svc

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…

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6
Legal Aid of Arkansas

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

Crime & Legal
7
The Food Bank of Northeast 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.

Human Services
8
Women's Crisis Center

Battered women's shelter

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9
The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
10
Northwest Arkansas Food Bank

To nourish northwest arkansas communities by feeding hungry people through partnerships with other hunger relief organizations.

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11
The Haven of Northeast Arkansas Inc

To provide shelter, counseling and other assistance to victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
12
Arkansas Nonprofit News Network

Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samaritan House Community Center; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 69 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
24/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JONES TRUST: $11,275,064 · PhilanthropyTHE JONES TRUSTVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $4,559,247 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAMEXCELLERATE FOUNDATION: $2,088,947 · PhilanthropyEXCELLERATE FOUNDATION+6 more: $776,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHWEST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $5,000,000 · OtherNORTHWEST TECHNICAL INSTITUTESPRINGDALE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2,060,640 · OtherSPRINGDALE PUBLIC SCHOOLSBENTONVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,909,980 · OtherBENTONVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLSRogers Public Schools: $1,458,000 · OtherRogers Public SchoolsHUNTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $895,316 · OtherHUNTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICTPEA RIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $680,400 · OtherPRAIRIE GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $680,400 · OtherFAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT #1: $631,800 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $580,333 · Other+27 more: $1,973,175 · Other+27 moreTHE JONES CENTER FOR FAMILIES INC: $12,553,654 · Human ServicesTHE JONES CENTER FOR FAMILIES I…+9 more: $1,064,900 · Human Services+9 moreTRENDSETTERS FOUNDATION: $375,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY: $125,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER: $42,200 · Crime & LegalFAMILY NETWORK INC: $25,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $6,500 · Crime & LegalCanopy NWA: $178,150 · Community ImprovementENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $7,300 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OF B'VILLE BELLA: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterPartners for Better Housing: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterMAGDALENE SERENITY HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTHWEST ARKANSAS CONTINUUM OF CARE: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterOASIS OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterMicah 6 8 Initiative: $9,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$18,699,258Other$15,870,044Human Services$13,618,554Arts & Culture$385,000Crime & Legal$198,700Community Improvement$185,450Housing & Shelter$174,000

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 budgetTHE JONES TRUST: $11,275,064 over 2y, 41% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $4,559,247 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEXCELLERATE FOUNDATION: $2,088,947 over 4y, 10% of budgetSEVEN HILLS HOMELESS CENTER INC: $433,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetEXCELLERATE FOUNDATION CHARITABLE SUPPORT: $422,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetPEACE AT HOME FAMILY SHELTER INC: $380,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $215,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCanopy NWA: $178,150 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY: $125,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCREDIT COUNSELING OF ARKANSAS INC: $109,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON CO INC: $109,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHARED BEGINNINGS: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: $100,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $90,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetINNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS: $68,500 over 3y, 39% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetFor The Love: $50,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetSOAR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetROGERS RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OF B'VILLE BELLA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE TEEN ACTION & SUPPORT CENTER: $48,800 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPartners for Better Housing: $45,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetCHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER: $42,200 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOzark Guidance Center Inc: $38,475 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS: $32,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSOULS HARBOR OF ROGERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetHelping Hands of Benton County: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPEDAL IT FORWARD NWA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetMAGDALENE SERENITY HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFAMILY NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetThe Hillside at Providence Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS CONTINUUM OF CARE: $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetASSET FUNDERS NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSERVE NORTHWEST ARKANSAS: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS: $23,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetWELCOMEHEALTH: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE MANNA CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOASIS OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS WOMEN'S SHELTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH RICHARDSON CENTER INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS RAPE CRISIS INC: $12,100 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC: $11,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTS ONE PRESENTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMicah 6 8 Initiative: $9,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $7,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESTORING HOPE NWA INC: $6,500 over 1y, 7.6% 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 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 SHARED BEGINNINGS ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds For The Love ↗
  • Who funds SOAR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds ROGERS RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OF B'VILLE BELLA ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…Wal-Mart FoundationWalton Family Foundat…Arvest FoundationAlice L Walton Founda…Excellerate FoundationThe Schmieding Founda…Pure IncMcKinney C & a Charit…Willard & Pat Walker …The Methodist Foundat…Tyson Family Foundati…
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR78.4× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Excellerate Foundation Charitable Support funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Excellerate Foundation Charitable Support. 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 69 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 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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