· Private foundation
James I Freeman Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BPS FOUNDATION | $62,500 |
| THE CHURCH ON SUGAR HILL | $53,000 |
| UAMS FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| RAZORBACK FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN | $21,585 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF ARKAN | $20,000 |
| CHRISTUS ST MICHAEL HEALTH SYSTEM F | $18,860 |
| ARKANSAS STATE POLICE FOUNDATION | $16,600 |
| HEARTLAND FORWARD | $5,000 |
| TEXARKANA MUSEUM SYSTEM | $5,000 |
| PULASKI COUNTY ADOPTION COALITION | $4,000 |
| WALTON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $3,000 |
| TEXARKANA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTE | $2,500 |
| LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $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 (FY19–24, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
36 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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
- CACHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS6× · 2019–2024 · $112k · revenue +675%
- CBCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +12%
- SASOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $58k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $100k
HISPANIC FEDERATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +71%- HRHARVEST REGIONAL FOOD BANKone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education
To enhance the quality of life for those facing serious illness and loss by surrounding them with love and embracing them with the best in physical, emotional and spiritual care programs and services, and to help donors meet their…
Arkansas hospice foundation is a non-profit, charitable 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to raise public awareness and financial support for arkansas hospice and related organization's programs and services, and to help donors meet…
Education & leadership training to improve patient care.
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…
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
To promote awareness, encourage timely detection and support improved treatment and survivorship of prostate cancer in arkansas
Arkansas health care association was organized for the following purposes: (a) to maintain high standard of quality care and administration of nursing homes and similar health care facilities, (b) to create greater opportunities for the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Linden-Music City Texas Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 61 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 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
- Who funds BPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS STATE POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS GOVERNOR'S MANSION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PULASKI COUNTY ADOPTION COALITION INC DBA PROJECT ZERO ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Heartland Forward Inc ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXARKANA REGIONAL ARTS & HUMANIT ↗
- Who funds Randy Sams Outreach Shelter ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Arklatex 100 Club ↗
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 · George H Dunklin Jr Charitable Foundation · Cabe Cook Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Lpr Foundation · The Bobbie a Atkinson Foundation · Horace C Cabe Foundation · Patterson Troike Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Vasco McCoy Jr Foundation · Yates Foundation · Landers Family Charitable Foundation
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 James I Freeman Charitable Trust 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.