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Mary M Jennings Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Mary M Jennings Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Youth Development$10kEducation$4kHealth$2kReligion$865Arts & Culture$825Human Services$200Food & Nutrition$100Public Safety & Disaster$43Other$0
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
1
States reached
$42k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC$3,305
ARM 180$500
EASTER SEALS OF ARKANSAS$100
NATL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES$45
MUSEUM OF AR GRAND PRAIRIE$25
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DELTA DELTA DELTA FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%THE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $100 → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AR FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%NATL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES: $390 → 17%DEWITT HOSPITAL & NURSING HOME: $535 → 19%HUTCHINSON SCHOOL: $500 → 17%THE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $100 → 12%NATL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES: $100 → 17%ARM 180: $500 → 19%HUTCHINSON SCHOOL: $500 → 17%HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $35 → 17%DEWITT CEMETERY: $200 → 19%NATL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES: $95 → 17%DEWITT HOSPITAL & NURSING HOME: $175 → 19%HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $35 → 17%DANA'S HOUSE: $100 → 19%NATL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES: $45 → 17%ARKANSAS COUNTY PRESERVATION: $100 → 19%EASTER SEALS OF ARKANSAS: $200 → 17%CARING AND SHARING PANTRY: $100 → 19%EASTER SEALS OF ARKANSAS: $200 → 17%PATTILLO CENTER SCHOOL: $100 → 19%EASTER SEALS OF ARKANSAS: $100 → 17%MUSEUM OF AR GRAND PRAIRIE: $100 → 19%EASTER SEALS OF ARKANSAS: $100 → 17%DEWITT CEMETERY: $25 → 19%UAMS CHANCELLOR'S CIRCLE GRANT: $1k → 17%MUSEUM OF AR GRAND PRAIRIE: $25 → 19%ARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 17%PATTILLO CENTER SCHOOL: $25 → 19%ARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%ARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%ARKANSAS STATE POLICE ASSOCIATION: $25 → 17%ARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $300 → 17%ARKANSAS STATE POLICE ASSOCIATION: $18 → 17%BISHOP LEODIES & GOLDIE WARREN FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $100 → 17%ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $25 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14k · 11 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

$14k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+9%

Still filing today

73%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • A4
    ARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +72%
  • TH
    THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +57%
  • DH
    DeWitt Hospital & Nursing Home Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $710 · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AR FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -63%
  • UC
    UAMS CHANCELLOR'S CIRCLE GRANT
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • DD
    DELTA DELTA DELTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +125%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
2
Arkansas Construction Education Foundation

Provide educational programs for construction industries.

Education
3
Foundation of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history

Arts & Culture
4
Arkansas Enterprises for the Developmentally Disabled Inc

Teaching work skills and daily living skills to individuals with developmental disabilities.

Human Services
5
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc

To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education

Health
6
Arkansas Pharmacy Foundation

Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.

Health
7
Central Arkansas Development Council

To provide services to low income individuals.

Community Improvement
8
Arkansas Community Foundation Inc

Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.

Philanthropy
9
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
10
Arkansas Hospice Foundation Inc

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…

Health
11
Arkansas Education Association

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.

Education
12
Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Central Ar Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is ARM180. 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 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 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $10,195 · Youth DevelopmentARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AR FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AR …DELTA DELTA DELTA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationDELTA DELTA DELTA FOUNDAT…THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL: $1,000 · EducationTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOLTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $200 · Education+1 more: $125 · EducationUAMS CHANCELLOR'S CIRCLE GRANT: $1,000 · OtherUAMS CHANCELL…NATL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES: $630 · OtherNATL SOCIETY …Individual grant recipient: $225 · OtherIndividual gr…MUSEUM OF AR GRAND PRAIRIE: $125 · OtherCARING AND SHARING PANTRY INC: $100 · OtherBISHOP LEODIES & GOLDIE WARREN FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $100 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100 · Other+2 more: $68 · OtherDeWitt Hospital & Nursing Home Inc: $710 · HealthEASTERSEALS ARKANSAS: $600 · HealthARM180: $500 · ReligionBREAKING BONDS MINISTRIES: $340 · ReligionDANA'S HOUSE INC: $100 · Housing & ShelterHISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $70 · Arts & Culture
Youth Development$10,195Education$4,325Other$2,348Health$1,310Religion$840Housing & Shelter$100Arts & Culture$70

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $10,195 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AR FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELTA DELTA DELTA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDeWitt Hospital & Nursing Home Inc: $710 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERSEALS ARKANSAS: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARM180: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKING BONDS MINISTRIES: $340 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATILLO CENTER-SCHOOL INC: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANA'S HOUSE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $70 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS STATE POLICE ASSOCIATION: $43 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Acres of Help IncThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Acres of Help IncAR13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Acres of Help Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mary M Jennings Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary M Jennings Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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