· Private foundation
Nisbet Family Foundation Tr
Its FY2025 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Christ Episcopal Church | $5,600 |
| Easter Seals Arkansas | $4,677 |
| CARE | $1,200 |
| XI Educational Foundation | $1,000 |
| Economics Arkansas | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150 |
| American Heart Association | $100 |
| Natural State Council of Boy Scouts of America | $100 |
| Arkansas Food Bank | $100 |
| 20th Century Club Lodge | $75 |
| Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation | $65 |
| Kappa Sigma Endowment Fund | $55 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50 |
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 (FY21–21, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +35% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EAEASTERSEALS ARKANSAS4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +98%
- ARARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE2× · 2021–2024 · $1k · revenue +35%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $400 · revenue +25%
Funded once
- XEXI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF ARone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -23%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +17%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $300
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.
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.
To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education
The foundation's mission is to broaden and enhance educational and employment opportunities for persons with visual impairments.
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
The primary purpose of the arkansas state university system foundation, inc. (the foundation) is to receive, solicit, accept and hold, administer, invest and disburse any and every kind of property for such education, scientific, literary,…
The arkansas alumni association connects and serves the university of arkansas family.
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…
Arkansas farm bureau foundation (the "foundation") is organized for charitable and educational purposes to further the understanding of agricultural and rural issues, and to support the agricultural and rural community through financial…
Education
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 37 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 EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds XI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF AR ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S ARKANSAS PROGRAMS & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · The Hussman Foundation · George H Dunklin Jr Charitable Foundation · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nisbet Family Foundation Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nisbet Family Foundation Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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