· Private foundation
Hussman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC School of Journalism | $1,329,028 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation | $12,500 |
| Prager University | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| The Truth Matters Trust | $10,000 |
| Grigot Arts | $6,000 |
| Pathway to Freedom | $5,000 |
| Center For Executive Leadership | $5,000 |
| BRUCE LIVINGSTON ROWAN OAK ENDOWMENT | $5,000 |
| Pulaski Academy | $2,500 |
| But God Ministries | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Community Hospital DevelopmentMontage Health | $2,500 |
| UAMS FoundationChancellor's Cir | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
42 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- PTPATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC7× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +184%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +30%
BUT GOD MINISTRIES8× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2019 · $1.3M
- TCTHE CENTER FOR INTEGRITY IN NEWS REPORTINGone grant, 2024 · $122k
- TGTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +49%
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
Advocate for educational professionals and unite our members and the state to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
Ouachita baptist university is a christ-centered learning community. embracing the liberal arts tradition, the university prepares individuals for ongoing intellectual and spiritual growth, lives of meaningful work, and reasoned engagement…
The purpose of the arkansas humanities council is to promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the humanities in arkansas. to achieve its purpose, the council awards grants through a competitive application process to nonprofit…
To provide support for the honors college and graduate school at the university of arkansas fayetteville campus.
To aid, strengthen, and further in every proper and useful way the work and services of south arkansas college, and to provide broader educational opportunities to its students, staff, faculty, and to the residents of union county.
Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ouachita County Historical Society. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 75 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 THE CENTER FOR INTEGRITY IN NEWS REPORTING ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BUT GOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GRIOT ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PULASKI ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OUACHITA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PULASKI COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ST BARTHOLOMEW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Philander Smith College ↗
- Who funds The King's College ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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 · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · The Hussman Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · John R & Judy W Fletcher Family Foundation · Lpr Foundation · Rebsamen Fund · Arkansas Children's Hospital · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi
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 Hussman Family Foundation 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.
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