· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $511,480 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $980,583 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $469,103 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $328k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $137k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR HOUSE INC | $136,744 |
| CHILDREN'S PROTECTION CENTER | $24,828 |
| IMMERSE ARKANSAS | $24,614 |
| AR SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $24,463 |
| HARMONY HEALTH CLINIC | $24,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS | $23,432 |
| LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH | $20,750 |
| VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC | $20,000 |
| CITY YEAR LITTLE ROCK | $19,095 |
| WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST | $18,312 |
| CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES | $16,177 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SALINE COUNTY | $16,054 |
| LITERACY ACTION OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS | $15,539 |
| AR KIDS READ | $15,513 |
| GIRL SCOUTS - DIAMONDS | $15,097 |
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 (FY18–25, $637k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
48 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- OHOUR HOUSE INC5× · 2018–2025 · $711k · revenue +145%
- LCLONOKE COUNTY TASK FORCE ON CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT INC6× · 2019–2024 · $466k · revenue +19%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS7× · 2017–2025 · $219k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $33k · revenue +39%
- PCPULASKI COUNTY FRIENDS OF CASA INCone grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue -6%
- GLGROUP LIVING INCone grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +11%
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.
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
To provide services to low income individuals.
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
To equip and empower youth, adults, and families to become healthier and contributing members of the community by providing compassionate emotional and behavioral intensive residential treatment & qualified residential treatment for ages…
Provide help to domestic violence victims and encourage community efforts to promote domestic peace.
The mission of east arkansas youth services, inc. is to provide a comprehensive continuum of care to include therapeutic, educational, and advocacy services, to youth and their families, and to instill motivation and courage to empower…
To improve education youth development health and wellness in African American communities throughout the State of Arkansas
The organization and its volunteers served as advocates for abused and neglected children. the nationwide organization has helped more than two million children.
The organization provides a therapeutic shelter and care for homeless and/or abused children.
To create an environment where staff is conscientious to the behavioral health needs of the area in a manner which is client oriented, accessible, affordable, and quality driven.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centers for Youth and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brandon House Cultural and Performing Arts Center. 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 38 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 78 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 OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LONOKE COUNTY TASK FORCE ON CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds Central Arkansas Volunteers in Medicine Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS ENTERPRISES FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds WADE KNOX CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF PULASKI COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S PROTECTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF JACKSONVILLE ↗
- Who funds IMMERSE ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY ACTION OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS A ALLEN SCHOOL FOR ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - DIAMONDS OF ARKANSAS OKLAHOMA & TEXAS ↗
- Who funds AR KIDS READ ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALDERSGATE INC ↗
- Who funds Central Arkansas Library System Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENT ARK INC ↗
- Who funds The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SALINE COUNTY ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Brandon House Cultural and Performing Arts Center ↗
- Who funds LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds METHODIST FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND ↗
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 · 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
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 Heart of Arkansas United Way 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida 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.