· Private foundation
Hussman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| The Truth Matters Trust | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| Grigot Arts | $6,000 |
| Pathway to Freedom | $5,000 |
| Center For Executive Leadership | $5,000 |
| BRUCE LIVINGSTON ROWAN OAK ENDOWMENT | $5,000 |
| But God Ministries | $2,500 |
| Pulaski Academy | $2,500 |
| Community Hospital DevelopmentMontage Health | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| UAMS FoundationChancellor's Cir | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PULASKI COUNTY ↗
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hussman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hussman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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