· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARKANSAS BAPTIST CHILDREN AND FAMILY MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| K-LIFE MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSunshine School5× · 2017–2022 · $91k · revenue +48%
- PAPositive Atmosphere Reaches Kids Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +50%
- LRLITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- WCWHITE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $386k · revenue -93% · 52% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $44k · revenue +122%
- AYADULLAM YOUTH CENTERone grant, 2017 · $26k
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.
Feed arkansas kids is a ministry through the church at rock creek that provides weekend meals for insecure children of central arkansas
Ministry for child welfare and families in crisis.
Rescue orphaned or abandoned children and provide them with food, shelter, clothing, medical, dental, education, recreation while teaching the word of christianity.
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…
To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.
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…
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.
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…
Helping indiidual who failed to graduate from high scholl earned their diploma instead of a ged certificate.
To provide comprehensive programs of preschool, adult development and family support
Prison reading ministry
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 27 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 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 GREENWOOD BULLDOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Larry & Janett Crain Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Larry & Janett Crain Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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