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Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust

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.

$12k
Granted FY2019
9
Grants FY2019
9
Organizations funded FY2019
44%
First-time grantees FY2019
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90% of Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $12k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
3
’18
5
’19
1
’20
3
’21
4
’22
1
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2019
$125
Largest grant, FY2019
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 44% of the organizations Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
HealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20199$12k44%
FY20186$12k50%
FY201710$11kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$49kHealth$42kReligion$6kEducation$5kArts & Culture$550Environment$250Community Improvement$250International$225Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hendrix College$4,00040%
Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation$1,50020%
River City Mens Chorus$55050%
Baptist Health Foundation Inc$50020%
Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church$3002n/a
Junior League of Little Rock Inc$25010%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$20010%
Haiti Education Foundation Inc$12510%
United States Fund for Unicef$10010%
The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc$10010%
Arkansas Children's Hospital$10010%
Catholic High School Foundation Inc$10010%
City Union Mission$7510%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHendrix College: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRiver City Mens Chorus: $550 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Little Rock Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHaiti Education Foundation Inc: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tennessee Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArkansas Children's Hospital: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic High School Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Union Mission: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 Foundation IncAR15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust

How much does Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust give?
Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust reported 9 grants totaling $11,675 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (46%), Health (38%), Religion (5%).
Who are Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Hendrix College ($4k), Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation ($2k), River City Mens Chorus ($550).
Does Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust based?
Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust is based in AR.

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 25 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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