Arkansas · Private foundation
Riggs Benevolent Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $724k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 86
- Grants FY2025
- 77
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 77
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Riggs Benevolent Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k 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 | 85 | $722k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 77 | $653k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $747k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $645k | 92% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $344k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiwanis Activities of Little Rock Kiwanis Activities Inc | $217,500 | 4 | 19% |
| Arkansas Construction Education Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Heart of Arkansas United Way | $165,000 | 4 | 3% |
| University of Arkansas Foundation Inc | $144,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Immerse Arkansas | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Our House Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Arkansas Hospice Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 4% |
| World Services for the Blind | $80,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Baptist Health Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Christ Community Church | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 91 recipients with no EIN on record ($815k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Riggs Benevolent 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 · Arvest Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Heart of Arkansas United Way · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc · Brown Foundation · C Louis and Mary C Cabe Foundation · Lpr Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Sally & Keith Riggs Foundation
How this is measured
About Riggs Benevolent Fund
- How much does Riggs Benevolent Fund give?
- Riggs Benevolent Fund reported 86 grants totaling $723,825 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 77 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Riggs Benevolent Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Health (17%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Riggs Benevolent Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Kiwanis Activities of Little Rock Kiwanis Activities Inc ($218k), Arkansas Construction Education Foundation ($200k), Heart of Arkansas United Way ($165k).
- Does Riggs Benevolent Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Riggs Benevolent Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Riggs Benevolent Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Arvest Foundation, Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And.
- Where is Riggs Benevolent Fund based?
- Riggs Benevolent Fund is based in AR.
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