· Private foundation
McKinney C & a Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON COUNTY | $25,000 |
| LIFELINE OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS | $20,000 |
| NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| HAVENWOOD | $10,000 |
| SUNSHINE SCHOOL & DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $10,000 |
| SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND NWA | $9,000 |
| SAMARITAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $7,500 |
| ARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTON | $5,000 |
| CIRCLE OF LIFE HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WOMEN'S SHELTER | $5,000 |
| SECOND STREET PANTRY MISSIONS INC | $5,000 |
| SOAR AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| HELEN R WALTON CHILDREN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NWA | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $418k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SSSUNSHINE SCHOOL & DEVELOPMENT CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $98k · revenue +36%
- NANORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK8× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +60%
- SHSAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER7× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- HFHORSES FOR HEALING INCone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -30%
- SOSOLDIER ON SERVICE DOGS INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
- BPBENTONVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FDNone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
To provide services to low income individuals.
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
To provide care for needy children and young adults.
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
To vigorously advocate for and enforce the legal rights of people with disabilities in arkansas.
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…
To provide assistance to victims of domestic abuse and to educate the community to work toward the prevention of family violence.
Teaching work skills and daily living skills to individuals with developmental disabilities.
Provide help to domestic violence victims and encourage community efforts to promote domestic peace.
To provide exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities have equal opportunities to live, learn, work, and play in their communities.
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samaritan House Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Dress for Success Northwest Arkansas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 48 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 LIFE LINE OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE SCHOOL & DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ADULT DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WOMEN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON CO INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOMEHEALTH ↗
- Who funds SECOND STREET PANTRY MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds KIND AT HEART MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ROGERS PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAVENWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds HORSES FOR HEALING INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SOLDIER ON SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Hope Cancer Resources ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF BENTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BELLA VISTA COURTESY VAN INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM ↗
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 · Wal-Mart Foundation · Arvest Foundation · The Schmieding Foundation · Excellerate Foundation Charitable Support · Alice L Walton Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Excellerate Foundation · Baum Charitable Foundation Trust · The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc
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 McKinney C & a 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.
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