· Private foundation
Munro Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k27 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOT SPRINGS AREA COMM FOUNDATION | $45,413 |
| ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $7,500 |
| ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP | $5,000 |
| ECONOMICS ARKANSAS | $5,000 |
| GARVAN GARDENS | $5,000 |
| WILDWOOD PARK FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCES | $5,000 |
| UAMS PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| PHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| HOT SPRINGS DOCUMENTARY FILM INSTIT | $5,000 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE SHARING FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY21–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2023, 26 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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
- NPNATIONAL PARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2023 · $11k · revenue +113%
- HSHot Springs Documentary Film Institute3× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +83%
- TFTHEA FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- GHGAINES HOUSE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -28%
- UUAMSone grant, 2021 · $4k
- HCHENDRIX COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -1%
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.
See schedule o for complete description - the mission of the arkansas colleges of health education (ache) is to educate and train a diverse group of highly competent and compassionate healthcare professionals; to create health and research…
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.
The arkansas policy foundation is a not-for-profit think tank that conducts research and analyzes the impact of public policies on the people of arkansas. the foundation was founded in 1995 and emphasizes the importance of education and…
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
The vision of arkansas children's research institute is to be a leader in cutting-edge research that improves the health and well-being of children and their families. in support of this vision, arkansas children's research institute aims…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals International. 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 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 107 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 NATIONAL PARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute ↗
- Who funds Hot Springs Area Cultural Alliance ↗
- Who funds THEA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mid-America Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE SHARING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds Philander Smith College ↗
- Who funds Arkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds GAINES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENS FOUNDATION OF ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES & CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HENDRIX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds The Muses Inc ↗
- Who funds OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · Arvest Foundation · Morris Foundation Inc · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Roy & Christine Sturgis Charitable & Educational Trust · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · C Louis and Mary C Cabe Foundation · Elisabeth D Wagner Foundation · Chi St Vincent Hospital Hot Springs (Fka Mercy Hospital Hot Springs) · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Murphy Foundation · Rebsamen Fund
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 Munro 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.
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.