Arkansas · Public charity
Heart of Arkansas United Way
HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY serves our community in three primary ways: we invest in programs that make a measurable impact. We work to understand the key needs in our community in education, financial stability, and health, and strategically fund those programs which are making the biggest impact. Our community investment committee is…
- $981k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $511k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,539
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $136,744
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Heart of Arkansas United Way funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $511k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $490k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $416k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $697k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $705k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $593k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $690k | 61% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $517k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our House Inc | $710,722 | 5 | 5% |
| Lonoke County Task Force on Child Abuse & Neglect Inc | $466,355 | 6 | 10% |
| The Salvation Army | $257,835 | 7 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Central Arkansas | $218,755 | 7 | 4% |
| Central Arkansas Volunteers in Medicine Clinic Inc | $164,715 | 6 | 12% |
| St Francis House Inc | $160,714 | 7 | 2% |
| Arkansas Food Bank | $134,032 | 6 | n/a |
| Women & Children First the Center Against Family Violence | $132,697 | 8 | 2% |
| Centers for Youth and Families Inc | $132,394 | 5 | 0% |
| Arkansas Enterprises for the Developmentally Disabled Inc | $125,958 | 7 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Heart of Arkansas United Way supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · The Methodist Foundation for Arkansas · Union Pacific Foundation · Rebsamen Fund · Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc
How this is measured
About Heart of Arkansas United Way
- How much does Heart of Arkansas United Way give?
- Heart of Arkansas United Way reported 26 itemized grants totaling $511,480, out of $980,583 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Heart of Arkansas United Way fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (32%), Human Services (17%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are Heart of Arkansas United Way's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Our House Inc ($711k), Lonoke County Task Force on Child Abuse & Neglect Inc ($466k), The Salvation Army ($258k).
- Does Heart of Arkansas United Way fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Heart of Arkansas United Way?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Arvest Foundation, Riggs Benevolent Fund.
- Where is Heart of Arkansas United Way based?
- Heart of Arkansas United Way is based in AR.
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