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Munro Foundation at a glance

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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.

$191k
Granted FY2023
30
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Education$61kArts & Culture$59kPublic Benefit$52kHealth$41kHousing & Shelter$19kReligion$16kEnvironment$13kPhilanthropy$11kOther$0
02FY2023 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k27 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UAMS INSTITUTE ON AGING$5,000
UAMS PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE$5,000
ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCES$5,000
ECONOMICS ARKANSAS$5,000
ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
ARCANSA$5,000
JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
ARKANSAS FOOD BANK$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
PHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE$5,000
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOPE ENTERPRISE CORP: $1k → 12%GAINES HOUSE: $5k → 17%THEA FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%THEA FOUNDATION: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
SD
IA
PA
CT
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$162k · 44 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
55

Total granted

$162k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+4%

Still filing today

59%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $11k · revenue +121%
  • HS
    Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute
    3× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +83%
  • MA
    Mid-America Arts Alliance
    2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • GH
    GAINES HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -28%
  • U
    UAMS
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • HC
    HENDRIX COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -1%
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
Arkansas Colleges of Health Education

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…

Education
2
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
3
Arkansas Policy Foundation

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…

Crime & Legal
4
Opportunity Arkansas Foundation

Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.

Philanthropy
5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
6
Ouachita Mountains Biological Station
Environment
7
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc

To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education

Health
8
Augustana College

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…

Education
9
Arkansas Pharmacy Foundation

Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.

Health
10
Arkansans for Education Reform Foundation
Education
11
Arkansas Children's Research Institute

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…

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12
Furman University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 107 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/55
Grantees still filing
34/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOT SPRINGS AREA COMM FOUNDATION: $50,479 · OtherHOT SPRINGS AREA COMM FOUNDATIONST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $22,500 · OtherST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHNATIONAL PARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · Other+72 more: $150,750 · Other+72 moreHot Springs Documentary Film Institute: $9,600 · Arts & CultureHot Sprin…Mid-America Arts Alliance: $6,250 · Arts & CultureMid-Ameri…Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts Inc: $6,000 · Arts & CultureWildwood …The Muses Inc: $2,250 · Arts & CultureThe Muses…MID AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureACANSA ARTS FESTIVAL: $1,000 · Arts & CultureAmericans for the Arts Inc: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CulturePhilander Smith College: $5,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · EducationHENDRIX COLLEGE: $2,500 · EducationOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $1,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOL: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationTHEA FOUNDATION: $6,250 · Human ServicesGAINES HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOPE ENTERPRISES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 · Human ServicesCOOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES & CLINIC: $3,250 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2,250 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $900 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $500 · HealthARKANSAS HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $500 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $400 · HealthTHE SHARING FOUNDATION: $6,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 · InternationalARKANSAS FOODBANK: $6,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT HOPE FOOD BANK INC: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$234,729Arts & Culture$27,350Education$17,000Human Services$12,750Health$8,800International$7,500Food & Nutrition$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHot Springs Documentary Film Institute: $9,600 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHot Springs Area Cultural Alliance: $7,250 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetMid-America Arts Alliance: $6,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHEA FOUNDATION: $6,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SHARING FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWildwood Park for the Performing Arts Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhilander Smith College: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $5,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGAINES HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWOMENS FOUNDATION OF ARKANSAS: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES & CLINIC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHENDRIX COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Muses Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE MID SOUTH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMID AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACANSA ARTS FESTIVAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPositive Atmosphere Reaches Kids Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans for the Arts Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE ENTERPRISES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUACHITA CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOT SPRINGS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArkansas Humanities Council: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE FOOD BANK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN MUTUAL HELP ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World Action Fund: $350 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute ↗
  • Who funds Hot Springs Area Cultural Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Mid-America Arts Alliance ↗
  • Who funds THEA FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds GAINES HOUSE INC ↗
  • 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 The Muses Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Arkansas Community Fo…Arvest FoundationMorris Foundation IncWindgate Charitable F…Roy & Christine Sturg…Roy and Christine Stu…C Louis and Mary C Ca…Elisabeth D Wagner Fo…Chi St Vincent Hospit…Walton Family Foundat…The Murphy FoundationRebsamen Fund
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR52.5× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Munro Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Munro Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 107 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.

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