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Riggs Benevolent Fund at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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%WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 17%IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
MN
IN
CA
MO
VA
MD
AR
LA
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 78 repeat orgs$581k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

78 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
76

Total granted

$2.5M
$453k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+6%

Still filing today

69%
13%

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
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

  • 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
  • AH
    Arkansas Hospice Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $28k
  • BH
    Baptist Health Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 180 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
45/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR HOUSE INC: $85,000 · OtherOUR HOUSE INCUALR FOUNDATION: $60,500 · OtherCHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $58,500 · OtherArkansas Museum of Fine Arts: $50,000 · Other+122 more: $999,975 · Other+122 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetARKANSAS HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetWORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $80,000 over 4y, 1.6% 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 budgetWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetAR KIDS READ: $20,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES127 FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetTHE MAYFLY PROJECT: $20,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NW ARKANSAS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetOSCAR WASHINGTON JR EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $12,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S ARKANSAS PROGRAMS & SERVICES: $12,000 over 4y, 0.7% 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 budgetBRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $8,000 over 4y, 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…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

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 Riggs Benevolent Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Riggs Benevolent Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    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 180 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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