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Riggs Benevolent Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$724k
Granted FY2025still arriving
86
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$652kHealth$628kHuman Services$270kYouth Development$228kCommunity Improvement$225kArts & Culture$216kPhilanthropy$195kHousing & Shelter$158kOther$0
02FY2025 · 86 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k60 grants · $191k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $433k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARKANSAS CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION$100,000
HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK$29,700
OUR HOUSE$27,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA$27,000
WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST$25,000
TEAM RED WHITE AND BLUE$25,000
MISSION CLINICAL SERVICES$25,000
GOODNESS VILLAGE$20,000
CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH$20,000
CARTI CANCER CENTER$20,000
YOUTH HOME INC$17,000
QUAPAW AREA COUNCIL$17,000
CALS FOUNDATION$15,000
IMMERSE ARKANSAS$12,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $328k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $25k → 11%BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%SHARED BEGINNINGS: $3k → 14%VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 21%CONSTRUCTION ANGELS: $5k → 11%AMERICA'S WATERSHED INITIATIVE: $5k → 11%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY: $2k → 22%EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $25k → 11%BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%SHARED BEGINNINGS: $3k → 14%VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES: $9k → 21%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY: $2k → 22%BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES: $9k → 21%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY: $2k → 22%BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES: $5k → 21%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY: $2k → 22%CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES: $5k → 21%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS: $3k → 17%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS: $3k → 17%VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES: $9k → 17%CARELINK: $3k → 17%LIFEQUEST OF ARKANSAS: $2k → 17%LIFEQUEST OF ARKANSAS: $1k → 17%LIFEQUEST OF ARKANSAS: $1k → 17%WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 17%IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $45k → 17%IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $30k → 17%IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $13k → 17%WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 17%IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $10k → 17%WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 17%WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 17%CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $7k → 17%IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MN
IN
CA
MO
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MD
AR
LA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 77 repeat orgs$647k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

77 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
83

Total granted

$2.5M
$519k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+6%

Still filing today

70%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AC
    ARKANSAS CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue +345%
  • HO
    HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $165k · revenue +204%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $144k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Arkansas Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $37k
  • AM
    Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • AH
    Arkansas Hospice Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $28k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc

To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education

Health
2
Arkansas Hospice Inc

To enhance the quality of life for those facing serious illness and loss by surrounding them with love and embracing them with the best in physical, emotional and spiritual care programs and services, and to help donors meet their…

Human Services
3
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families

Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…

Human Services
4
The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
5
Arkansas Education Association

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.

Education
6
Opportunity Arkansas Foundation

Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.

Philanthropy
7
Arkansas Hospital Education and Research Trust Inc

Education & leadership training to improve patient care.

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8
Foundation of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history

Arts & Culture
9
Legal Aid of Arkansas

To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.

Crime & Legal
10
Arkansas Enterprises for the Developmentally Disabled Inc

Teaching work skills and daily living skills to individuals with developmental disabilities.

Human Services
11
Arkansas Pharmacy Foundation

Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.

Health
12
Arkansas Health Care Association

Arkansas health care association was organized for the following purposes: (a) to maintain high standard of quality care and administration of nursing homes and similar health care facilities, (b) to create greater opportunities for the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is JAMES127 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyArkansas Health & Human Ser…Charter and Alternative Sch…Healthcare Delivery SystemsYouth Sports LeaguesFood Security & DistributionChildren's Healthcare Syste…Arkansas Cultural & Educati…University and Research Sup…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%7%<5yr15%10%5–10yr21%16%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%5%<5yr15%4%5–10yr21%13%10–20yr14%21%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr13%35%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/89
the rest of the field
17%
911/5,243

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.

04the grantee network

82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 186 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
45/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OUR HOUSE INC — $85,000 · OtherOUR HOUSE INCCHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH — $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $58,500 · OtherUALR FOUNDATION — $57,500 · Other+129 more — $1,052,975 · Other+129 moreARKANSAS HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 · HealthARKANSAS HOSPICE…Baptist Health Foundation Inc — $75,000 · HealthBaptist Health F…MISSION CLINICAL SERVICES — $60,000 · HealthMISSION CLINICAL…CARTI Foundation Inc — $53,000 · HealthCARTI Foundation…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC — $49,500 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD …GOODNESS VILLAGE — $22,500 · HealthYOUTH HOME INC — $22,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $20,000 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Health+10 more — $62,500 · Health+10 moreARKANSAS CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $200,000 · EducationARKANSAS CONSTR…UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC — $144,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF A…HENDRIX COLLEGE — $21,000 · EducationPhilander Smith College — $20,000 · Education+4 more — $29,500 · Education+4 moreIMMERSE ARKANSAS — $100,000 · Human ServicesIMMERSE ARKANS…WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND — $80,000 · Human ServicesWORLD SERVICES…EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE — $50,000 · Human ServicesEASTERN CONGO …VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC — $37,000 · Human ServicesVERA LLOYD PRE…WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE — $25,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN & CHILDR…CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC — $24,000 · Human ServicesCENTERS FOR YO…THE CALL — $17,500 · Human Services+8 more — $55,000 · Human Services+8 moreKIWANIS ACTIVITIES OF LITTLE ROCK KIWANIS ACTIVITIES INC — $217,500 · Community ImprovementHEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY — $165,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $13,500 · PhilanthropyARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY — $35,000 · Arts & CultureSULTANA HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NW ARKANSAS — $20,000 · Arts & CultureJust Communities of Arkansas Inc — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,313,975Health$464,500Education$414,750Human Services$388,500Community Improvement$217,500Philanthropy$178,500Arts & Culture$147,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKIWANIS ACTIVITIES OF LITTLE ROCK KIWANIS ACTIVITIES INC — $217,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetARKANSAS CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetHEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY — $165,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC — $144,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIMMERSE ARKANSAS — $100,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND — $80,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetARKANSAS HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION CLINICAL SERVICES — $60,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCARTI Foundation Inc — $53,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC — $49,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC — $37,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATURAL STATE COUNCIL — $36,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY — $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS — $32,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetArkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc — $27,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetARKANSAS SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION — $27,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSULTANA HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC — $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOODNESS VILLAGE — $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH HOME INC — $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHENDRIX COLLEGE — $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NW ARKANSAS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAYFLY PROJECT — $20,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAR KIDS READ — $20,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetJAMES127 FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CALL — $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPositive Atmosphere Reaches Kids Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC — $14,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCAMP ALDERSGATE INC — $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC — $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS AND FRIENDS OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS — $12,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S ARKANSAS PROGRAMS & SERVICES — $12,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetOSCAR WASHINGTON JR EDUCATIONAL FUND INC — $12,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ARKANSAS INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC — $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Arkansas Community Fo…Arvest FoundationRoy and Christine Stu…Windgate Charitable F…Heart of Arkansas Uni…Nabholz Charitable Fo…Delta Dental of Arkan…Brown FoundationC Louis and Mary C Ca…Lpr FoundationUnion Pacific Foundat…Sally & Keith Riggs F…
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR95.7× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Riggs Benevolent 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 186 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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