· Private foundation
Rebsamen Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $172k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $20,000 |
| ARKANSAS REPERATORY THEATRE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $15,000 |
| ARKANSAS HOSPICE INC | $13,000 |
| THEA FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| AR KIDS READ | $12,000 |
| LITERACY ACTION OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| APPLE SEEDS | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS | $10,000 |
| ACLU OF ARKANSAS | $10,000 |
| YOUTH ADVOCACY RESOURSE NETWORK | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,667 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $132k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
53 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AKAR KIDS READ7× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +18%
- PSPhilander Smith College9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +13%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS REYNOLDS PERFORMANCE HALLone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- NPNO POLITICO NO RELIGION CO BE STRONG RE ENTRYone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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
To produce a diverse body of theatrical work of the highest artistic standards. with a focus on dramatic storytelling that illuminates the human journey, the theatre entertains, engages and challenges local and regional audiences of all…
Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.
Provide educational programs for construction industries.
To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history
Arkansas hospice foundation is a non-profit, charitable 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to raise public awareness and financial support for arkansas hospice and related organization's programs and services, and to help donors meet…
The purpose of the arkansas humanities council is to promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the humanities in arkansas. to achieve its purpose, the council awards grants through a competitive application process to nonprofit…
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Ffa Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gospel Music Trust Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 107 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THEA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AR KIDS READ ↗
- Who funds Philander Smith College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds LITERACY ACTION OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds Central Arkansas Library System Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY ↗
- Who funds APPLE SEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL CAMPS OF ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA IN THE ROCK INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS PAWS IN PRISON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENS FOUNDATION OF ARKANSAS ↗
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.
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
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 Rebsamen Fund 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.