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Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust at a glance

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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
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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.

01What it funds
0187% 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
02FY2019 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$125
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUMC OF LITTLE ROCK$8,000
Individual grant recipient$1,250
HENDRIX COLLEGE$1,000
CLINTON FOUNDATION$1,000
RIVER CITY MEN'S CHORUS$125
PULASKI HEIGHTS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$100
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$100
2ND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$50
CATHEDRAL OF ST ANDREWS$50
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%UNICEF: $100 → 17%HENDRIX COLLEGE: $1k → 15%FUMC OF LITTLE ROCK: $8k → 17%HAITI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $125 → 19%CITY UNION MISSION: $75 → 15%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $200 → 23%CLINTON FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%HENDRIX COLLEGE: $1k → 15%FUMC OF LITTLE ROCK: $8k → 17%CLINTON FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%HENDRIX COLLEGE: $1k → 15%FUMC OF LITTLE ROCK: $8k → 17%HENDRIX COLLEGE: $1k → 15%FUMC OF LITTLE ROCK: $8k → 17%FUMC OF LITTLE ROCK: $5k → 17%RIVER CITY MEN'S CHORUS: $125 → 17%FUMC OF LITTLE ROCK: $5k → 17%RIVER CITY MEN'S CHORUS: $125 → 17%FIRST UMC - LITTLE ROCK: $5k → 17%RIVER CITY MEN'S CHORUS: $100 → 17%JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LITTLE ROCK: $250 → 17%RIVER CITY MEN'S CHORUS: $100 → 17%CATHEDRAL OF ST ANDREWS: $50 → 17%RIVER CITY MEN'S CHORUS: $100 → 17%UAMS: $1k → 17%BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $250 → 17%PULASKI HEIGHTS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $200 → 17%CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $100 → 17%PULASKI HEIGHTS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $100 → 17%JOSEPH PFEIFER KIWANIS CAMP: $50 → 17%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100 → 17%2ND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $50 → 17%2ND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $50 → 17%UNIVERSITY OF LITTLE ROCK: $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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52k · 8 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +103% since the first grant, against +68% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$52k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%
+68%

Still filing today

50%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthInternationalArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HC
    HENDRIX COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +8%
  • BH
    BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +58%
  • RC
    RIVER CITY MENS CHORUS
    5× · 2017–2023 · $550 · revenue +298%

Funded once

  • U
    UAMS
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • JL
    JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LITTLE ROCK INC
    one grant, 2018 · $250 · revenue -81%
  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200 · revenue +72%
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
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
2
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
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
10
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
11
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
12
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is River City Mens Chorus. 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

14 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. 14 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FUMC OF LITTLE ROCK: $40,900 · OtherFUMC OF LITTLE ROCKFIRST UMC - LITTLE ROCK: $5,000 · OtherFIRST UMC - LITTLE ROCKIndividual grant recipient: $4,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+10 more: $3,000 · Other+10 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $47,842 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCHENDRIX COLLEGE: $4,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $200 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $1,500 · HealthBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $500 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100 · HealthRIVER CITY MENS CHORUS: $550 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LITTLE ROCK INC: $250 · Community ImprovementHAITI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $125 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $100 · InternationalCity Union Mission: $75 · Housing & Shelter
Other$52,950Philanthropy$47,842Education$4,300Health$2,100Arts & Culture$550Community Improvement$250International$225Housing & Shelter$75

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $47,842 over 1y, 0.0% of 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $250 over 1y, 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
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.

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…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philip J and Florence R Deer Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 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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