Arkansas · Private foundation
Rebsamen Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $282k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Rebsamen Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 40 | $282k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $265k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $208k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $189k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $172k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $177k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $139k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $174k | 61% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thea Foundation | $94,500 | 9 | 2% |
| Ar Kids Read | $69,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Philander Smith College | $63,000 | 9 | 0% |
| University of the Ozarks | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Literacy Action of Central Arkansas Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Central Arkansas Library System Foundation | $40,300 | 6 | 1% |
| Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Arkansas Hospice Inc | $28,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Museum of Discovery | $22,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Apple Seeds Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rebsamen Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Heart of Arkansas United Way · The Hussman Foundation · C Louis and Mary C Cabe Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · The Methodist Foundation for Arkansas · Union Pacific Foundation · Brown Foundation · Arkansas Humanities Council
How this is measured
About Rebsamen Fund
- How much does Rebsamen Fund give?
- Rebsamen Fund reported 40 grants totaling $282,048 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rebsamen Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Arts & Culture (16%), Health (10%).
- Who are Rebsamen Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Thea Foundation ($95k), Ar Kids Read ($69k), Philander Smith College ($63k).
- Does Rebsamen Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rebsamen Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rebsamen Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And, Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Rebsamen Fund based?
- Rebsamen Fund is based in AR.
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