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Larry & Janett Crain Charitable Foundation

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.

$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of LARRY & JANETT CRAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARKANSAS BAPTIST CHILDREN AND FAMILY MINISTRIES$15,000
K-LIFE MINISTRIES$12,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PATH OF GRACE: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$774k · 9 repeat orgs$555k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
16

Total granted

$774k
$528k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+11%

Still filing today

67%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • SS
    Sunshine School
    5× · 2017–2022 · $91k · revenue +48%
  • PA
    Positive Atmosphere Reaches Kids Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +50%
  • LR
    LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • WC
    WHITE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $386k · revenue -67% · 52% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $44k · revenue +122%
  • AY
    ADULLAM YOUTH CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $26k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Feed Arkansas Kids

Feed arkansas kids is a ministry through the church at rock creek that provides weekend meals for insecure children of central arkansas

Food & Nutrition
2
Arkansas Family Alliance F/K/a Whitsonlife Inc

Ministry for child welfare and families in crisis.

Religion
3
The Ark Children's Homes

Rescue orphaned or abandoned children and provide them with food, shelter, clothing, medical, dental, education, recreation while teaching the word of christianity.

International
4
Little Scholars of Arkansas Foundation

The mission of lisa academy is to provide an academically rigorous college preparatory program, in partnership with students, families, and the community, and guide all students in gaining knowldege, skills, and the attitude necessary to…

Education
5
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
6
United Methodist Children's Home

To provide quality compassionate behavioral healthcare services to children and families of arkansas through a comprehensive continuum of programs which include residential treatment center care, therapeutic group home care, emergency…

Human Services
7
Searcy Childrens Home Inc Sparrows Promise

Providing hope for children and families in the arkansas child welfare system provide foster care, supervised visitation services, a safe space for children to rest while waiting on a foster family and training for foster families.

8
Sunshine Bible Academy

Sunshine bible academy is a non-denominational christian boarding school that exists to assist parents with their responsibility to raise their children in the nurture and admonition of the lord by integrating god's truth in all areas of…

Education
9
Arkansas Network Learning Inc

Helping indiidual who failed to graduate from high scholl earned their diploma instead of a ged certificate.

Education
10
Advantages of Southeast Arkansas

To provide comprehensive programs of preschool, adult development and family support

11
Arkansans for Education Reform Foundation
Education
12
Storybook Project of Arkansas Inc

Prison reading ministry

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Methodist Family Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sunshine School. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS MEDICAL — $450,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS MEDICALSunshine School — $91,000 · OtherSunshine SchoolADULLAM YOUTH CENTER — $25,520 · Other+13 more — $123,091 · Other+13 moreWHITE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC — $386,136 · EducationWHITE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUN…UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC — $43,750 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INCLITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $40,000 · EducationLITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INCPositive Atmosphere Reaches Kids Inc — $75,000 · Recreation & SportsDOWNTOWN BJJ — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $2,500 · Recreation & SportsJACOBS PLACE HOMELESS MISSION — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterMETHODIST FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthSOARING WINGS RANCH INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPath of Grace Inc — $1,000 · Human ServicesARKANSAS FOODBANK — $665 · Food & Nutrition
Other$689,611Education$469,886Recreation & Sports$82,500Housing & Shelter$50,000Health$20,000Youth Development$15,000Human Services$1,000Food & Nutrition$665

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWHITE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC — $386,136 over 1y, 52% of budgetSunshine School — $91,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetPositive Atmosphere Reaches Kids Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetJACOBS PLACE HOMELESS MISSION — $50,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC — $43,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMETHODIST FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREENWOOD BULLDOG FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSOARING WINGS RANCH INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARKANSAS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK — $665 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING & LEARNING DIAGNOSTIC CENTE — $500 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
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 WHITE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Sunshine School
  • Who funds Positive Atmosphere Reaches Kids Inc
  • Who funds JACOBS PLACE HOMELESS MISSION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds METHODIST FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GREENWOOD BULLDOG FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SOARING WINGS RANCH INC
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN BJJ
  • Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARKANSAS INC
  • Who funds Path of Grace Inc
  • Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK
  • Who funds READING & LEARNING DIAGNOSTIC CENTE

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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Larry & Janett Crain Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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