· Private foundation
Frank D Hickingbotham Foundation Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $126,400 |
| ARKANSAS BAPTIST FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TRUTH MATTERS TRUST | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| UAMS FOUNDATION FUND | $24,625 |
| BAPTIST HEALH FOUNDATION | $7,790 |
| ALZEHIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARANSAS | $5,000 |
| RAZORBACK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE | $5,000 |
| TROUBLING OF THE WATERS MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $4,200 |
| IMMERSE ARKANSAS | $2,500 |
| WILLIAMS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
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, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 11 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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
- OBOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $634k · revenue +41%
- LRLITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $77k · revenue +52%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES7× · 2018–2024 · $18k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- MHMCGEHEE HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +34%
- MCMCGEHEE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -6% · 41% of their budget
- WCWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +342%
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.
To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history
To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education
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…
Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…
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…
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
To provide medical care to the uninsured.
Education & leadership training to improve patient care.
Provide educational programs for construction industries.
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…
To promote and develop the growth of tennis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Centers of Arkansas and the most unlike its peers is Alex Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 70 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 OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Harding University Inc ↗
- Who funds MCGEHEE HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MCGEHEE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds TRUTH MATTERS TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHOOSE OUTDOORS INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds Arkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds ALEX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMMERSE ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Arkansas ↗
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 · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · C Louis and Mary C Cabe Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Delta Dental Plan of Arkansas Inc · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Lpr Foundation · Horace C Cabe Foundation · George H Dunklin Jr Charitable 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 Frank D Hickingbotham Foundation Trust 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.