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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.

$981k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$137k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$1.5MHuman Services$823kYouth Development$594kEducation$471kHealth$399kFood & Nutrition$225kCrime & Legal$222kCommunity Improvement$144kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $511,480, the rows itemized in this filing. The $980,583 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $469,103 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $328k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $137k
$15,539
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY18–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GROUP LIVING INC: $17k → 20%COMMUNITY FAMILY ENRICHMENT CENTER: $10k → 20%CASA CLARK COUNTY: $6k → 20%VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20k → 17%VERA LOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 17%BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $10k → 17%VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY: $8k → 17%BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $5k → 17%BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $5k → 17%AEDD: $21k → 17%AEDD: $13k → 17%ARKANSAS ENTERPRISES FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $6k → 17%FRANCIS A ALLEN SCHOOL FOR: $41k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $33k → 17%FRANCIS A ALLEN SCHOOL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN: $19k → 17%CARELINK: $30k → 17%CARELINK DBA CENTRAL AR AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $10k → 17%FRANCIS A ALLEN SCHOOL: $10k → 17%CARELINK: $9k → 17%ARKANSAS ENTERPRISE FOR THE: $50k → 17%ARKANSAS ENTERPRISE FOR THE: $15k → 17%ARKANSAS ENTERPRISE FOR THE: $11k → 17%ARKANSAS ENTERPRISE FOR THE: $10k → 17%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ARKANSAS: $14k → 17%ARKANSAS UNITED COMMUNITY COALITION: $8k → 17%HELPING HAND OF GREATER LITTLE ROCK: $24k → 17%HELPING HAND OF GREATER LITTLER ROCK: $10k → 17%HELPING HAND OF GREATER LITTLE ROCK: $6k → 17%HELPING HAND OF GREATER LITTLE ROCK: $5k → 17%CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $41k → 17%CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $30k → 17%CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $25k → 17%IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $25k → 17%IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $23k → 17%IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $20k → 17%IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $15k → 17%WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $13k → 17%WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 17%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 48 repeat orgs$318k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
27

Total granted

$4.5M
$286k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+25%

Still filing today

90%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • OH
    OUR HOUSE INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $711k · revenue +145%
  • LC
    LONOKE COUNTY TASK FORCE ON CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $466k · revenue +19%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $219k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $33k · revenue +39%
  • PC
    PULASKI COUNTY FRIENDS OF CASA INC
    one grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue -6%
  • GL
    GROUP LIVING INC
    one grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +11%
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
The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
2
Central Arkansas Development Council

To provide services to low income individuals.

Community Improvement
3
Legal Aid of Arkansas

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

Crime & Legal
4
Casa of North Arkansas

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

Civil Rights
5
Youth Home Inc

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…

Health
6
East Arkansas Youth Services Inc

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…

Human Services
7
Arkansas Coalition Against Domestic Violence

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

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8
Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter in Dba Everhope Arkansas Inc

To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.

Human Services
9
Urban League of the State of Arkansas Inc

To improve education youth development health and wellness in African American communities throughout the State of Arkansas

—
10
South Arkansas Children's Coalition

The organization and its volunteers served as advocates for abused and neglected children. the nationwide organization has helped more than two million children.

Civil Rights
11
Arkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc

The organization provides a therapeutic shelter and care for homeless and/or abused children.

Housing & Shelter
12
Southeast Arkansas Behavioral Healthcare

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centers for Youth and Families Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
46/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR HOUSE INC: $710,722 · OtherOUR HOUSE INCLONOKE COUNTY TASK FORCE ON CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT INC: $466,355 · OtherLONOKE COUNTY TASK FORCE ON CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $257,835 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYST FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $160,714 · OtherST FRANCIS HOUSE INCARKANSAS FOOD BANK: $134,032 · OtherARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $120,706 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF PULASKI COUNTY INC: $97,900 · Other+27 more: $704,742 · Other+27 moreWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE: $132,697 · Human ServicesWOMEN & CHILDREN FI…CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $132,394 · Human ServicesCENTERS FOR YOUTH A…ARKANSAS ENTERPRISES FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INC: $125,958 · Human ServicesARKANSAS ENTERPRISE…IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $82,278 · Human ServicesIMMERSE ARKANSASFRANCIS A ALLEN SCHOOL FOR: $70,503 · Human ServicesFRANCIS A ALLEN SCH…CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $49,375 · Human ServicesCENTRAL ARKANSAS AR…The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc: $45,077 · Human ServicesThe Helping Hand of…VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $32,500 · Human Services+7 more: $97,645 · Human Services+7 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: $218,755 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF JACKSONVILLE: $90,193 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…AR KIDS READ: $59,705 · Youth DevelopmentAR KIDS RE…LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH: $28,750 · Youth DevelopmentLIFE SKILL…Boys and Girls Club of Malvern & Hot Spring County Inc: $21,553 · Youth Development+1 more: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentCentral Arkansas Volunteers in Medicine Clinic Inc: $164,715 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC: $111,093 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENT ARK INC: $47,060 · HealthMETHODIST FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,575 · HealthARKANSAS PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $17,110 · Health+1 more: $7,000 · HealthWADE KNOX CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $124,798 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S PROTECTION CENTER: $93,272 · Crime & LegalPULASKI COUNTY FRIENDS OF CASA INC: $22,000 · Crime & LegalSALINE COUNTY SAFE HAVEN INC: $16,375 · Crime & LegalLITERACY ACTION OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC: $76,082 · EducationCentral Arkansas Library System Foundation: $53,000 · EducationARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $40,579 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL AND SPATIAL TECHNOLOGY INC: $10,000 · EducationMINISTRY OF INTERCESSION: $7,500 · Education+1 more: $6,437 · EducationUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA: $21,012 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $18,672 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC: $18,485 · PhilanthropyASSET FUNDERS NETWORK: $7,500 · PhilanthropyHEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY: $6,700 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC: $6,244 · Philanthropy
Other$2,653,006Human Services$806,427Youth Development$430,956Health$372,553Crime & Legal$256,445Education$193,598Philanthropy$78,613

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $710,722 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetLONOKE COUNTY TASK FORCE ON CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT INC: $466,355 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: $218,755 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetCentral Arkansas Volunteers in Medicine Clinic Inc: $164,715 over 6y, 12% of budgetST FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $160,714 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE: $132,697 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $132,394 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetARKANSAS ENTERPRISES FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INC: $125,958 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWADE KNOX CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $124,798 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $120,706 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC: $111,093 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF PULASKI COUNTY INC: $97,900 over 3y, 26% of budgetCHILDREN'S PROTECTION CENTER: $93,272 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF JACKSONVILLE: $90,193 over 3y, 27% of budgetIMMERSE ARKANSAS: $82,278 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $81,241 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY ACTION OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC: $76,082 over 6y, 11% of budgetARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC: $71,833 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFRANCIS A ALLEN SCHOOL FOR: $70,503 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - DIAMONDS OF ARKANSAS OKLAHOMA & TEXAS: $60,076 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAR KIDS READ: $59,705 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCAMP ALDERSGATE INC: $58,583 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCentral Arkansas Library System Foundation: $53,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $49,375 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC: $48,333 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENT ARK INC: $47,060 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc: $45,077 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SALINE COUNTY ARKANSAS: $40,934 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $40,579 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetVERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $38,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $32,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrandon House Cultural and Performing Arts Center: $29,400 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetLIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH: $28,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMETHODIST FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,575 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBETTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $22,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPULASKI COUNTY FRIENDS OF CASA INC: $22,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Malvern & Hot Spring County Inc: $21,553 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA: $21,012 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $20,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBuilding Bridges Developmental and Community Services inc: $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $18,672 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC: $18,485 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetARKANSAS PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $17,110 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGROUP LIVING INC: $16,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSALINE COUNTY SAFE HAVEN INC: $16,375 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetJust Communities of Arkansas Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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…Arvest FoundationRiggs Benevolent FundRoy and Christine Stu…Windgate Charitable F…The Methodist Foundat…Union Pacific Foundat…Rebsamen FundDelta Dental of Arkan…Nabholz Charitable Fo…Walton Family Foundat…Arkansas Hunger Relie…
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR86.6× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Heart of Arkansas United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heart of Arkansas United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • United Way of Northeast Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 78 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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