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Ozark Outdoor Foundation

Ozark foundation ozf is a community-supported 501c3 charitable organization focused on positioning our state as a premier outdoor recreation destination.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Recreation & Sports$1.2MYouth Development$410kHealth$80kArts & Culture$50kHuman Services$41kEducation$20kCivil Rights$14kCommunity Improvement$5k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $102k
$14,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US Cup Group$46,446
Hincapie Events LLC$25,000
Rampy MS Research Foundation$16,700
Arkansas Race Solutions$14,000
The Joys of Swimming$8,130
NWA Youth Triathlon Organization$6,000
Downtown Springdale Alliance$5,000
Studio Drift Inc The Delta Grind$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NW AR CHILDRENS SHELTER: $6k → 8%JONES CENTER FOR FAMILIES INC: $20k → 14%JONES CENTER FOR FAMILIES INC: $20k → 14%NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $6k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 16% of Ozark Outdoor Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in AR; read by stated purpose it is 49% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Ozark Outdoor Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 23% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 9 repeat orgs$729k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$1.1M
$685k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

56%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • RM
    RAMPY MS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $62k · revenue +28%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON CO INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $48k · revenue +25%
  • SD
    STUDIO DRIFT
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $355k
  • UP
    USA PUMPTRACK CHAMPIONSHIP LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • UC
    US CUP MOUNTAIN BIKE SERIES
    one grant, 2022 · $90k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Bicycle Coalition of the Ozarks
2
Bike Walk Tennessee

Bike walk tennessee works to improve conditions for bicycling and walking in tennessee by advancing public policy, connecting and educating its members and constituents, and promoting best practices throught the state.

Recreation & Sports
3
Boulder Mountainbike Alliance

The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance exists to serve as a positive voice for mountain biking in the greater Boulder County, Colorado area by improving the trail experience for all users through social rides and events, advocacy, and trail…

Recreation & Sports
4
Leborne Development

To create a healthy and competitive environment among talented junior cyclists, ages 13-18 as well as u23 riders, from the northwest arkansas region. we look to raise a generation of young cyclists who can compete at the regional, national…

Youth Development
5
Bicycle Rides Northwest

Cycling

6
Colorado Mountain Bike Association

COMBA is dedicated to protecting and improving mountain biking on the Colorado Front Range.

Recreation & Sports
7
Yellowstone River Parks Association

Ypra owns and manages 700 acres of natural park land for public use and helps federal, state, county, and city agencies with management of various parks and trails on public land along the yellowstone and all in yellowstone county.

Environment
8
Benton County Snowmobile Club Inc
9
Ballet Arkansas Inc

Provide world-class diverse innovative dance programming and education to arkansas and beyond.

Arts & Culture
10
The Brett Downey Safety Foundation

To increase safety awareness in riders, parents, track owners and promoters; make the sport of motorcross as safe as possible, minimizing injuries

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Ozark Greenways Inc

Serve the springfield area by building a trail system that connects and enhances our community. additional functions include education on active transportation and urban tree canopy enhancement and serving as a land trust for…

Environment
12
Partnership for the Pathway

Raise funds to build recreational paths throughout the city

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jones Center for Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Peel Compton Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALL SPORTS PRODUCTIONS INC — $387,500 · OtherALL SPORTS PRODUCTIONS INCIndividual grant recipient — $355,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPEDAL TO THE MEDAL — $305,000 · OtherPEDAL TO THE MEDALUS CUP GROUP — $171,446 · OtherUS CUP GROUPUSA PUMPTRACK CHAMPIONSHIP LLC — $100,000 · OtherUSA PUMPTRACK CHAMPIONSHIP LLCUS CUP MOUNTAIN BIKE SERIES — $90,000 · OtherUS CUP MOUNTAIN BIKE SERIES+12 more — $186,991 · Other+12 moreRAMPY MS RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $61,700 · HealthSPEAKUP ABOUT DRUGS — $18,289 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON CO INC — $47,500 · PhilanthropySTUDIO DRIFT — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JONES CENTER FOR FAMILIES INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN OF OZ NWA — $6,345 · Recreation & SportsBENTONVILLE BELLA VISTA TRAILBLAZERS — $5,600 · Recreation & SportsDOWNTOWN SPRINGDALE ALLIANCE — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,595,937Health$79,989Philanthropy$72,500Human Services$52,000Recreation & Sports$11,945Community Improvement$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRAMPY MS RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $61,700 over 3y, 13% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON CO INC — $47,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JONES CENTER FOR FAMILIES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTUDIO DRIFT — $25,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetSPEAKUP ABOUT DRUGS — $18,289 over 1y, 24% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN OF OZ NWA — $6,345 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBENTONVILLE BELLA VISTA TRAILBLAZERS — $5,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Peel Compton Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 RAMPY MS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BENTON CO INC
  • Who funds THE JONES CENTER FOR FAMILIES INC
  • Who funds STUDIO DRIFT
  • Who funds SPEAKUP ABOUT DRUGS
  • Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC
  • Who funds WOMEN OF OZ NWA
  • Who funds BENTONVILLE BELLA VISTA TRAILBLAZERS
  • Who funds The Peel Compton Foundation
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN SPRINGDALE ALLIANCE

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.

Walton Family Foundation IncAR21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Walton Family Foundation Inc · Wal-Mart Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Alice L Walton Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ozark Outdoor 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your 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
    2report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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