· Public charity
River Valley United Way Inc
To disperse funds for charitable purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $184,510 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $192,010 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Russ Bus Inc | $41,250 |
| River Valley Food 4 Kids | $30,000 |
| CASA of the 5th Judicial District | $23,010 |
| Johnson County Helping Hands | $19,000 |
| Ozark Rape Crisis Center | $15,000 |
| Forrester Davis Devol Cntr | $13,750 |
| Help Network Inc | $13,500 |
| River Valley Christian Clinic | $10,000 |
| Community Service Inc | $10,000 |
| River Valley Shelter | $9,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of River Valley United Way Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AR; read by stated purpose it is 98% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RBRUSS BUS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $111k · revenue +52%
- COCASA of the 5th Judicial Dist Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $93k · revenue +24%
- RVRIVER VALLEY FOOD 4 KIDS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $74k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- SFSCHOLARS FUND FOR EDUCATIONone grant, 2020 · $14k
- CFCENTER FOR ARKANSAS LEGAL SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +13%
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.
To provide quality comprehensive and preventative health care to all residents of the arkansas area without regard to their ability to pay.
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
Provide basic human services such as food, clothing, shelter, medical, etc. for local people in need
To provide services to low income individuals.
The organization provides a therapeutic shelter and care for homeless and/or abused children.
To provide assistance to victims of domestic abuse and to educate the community to work toward the prevention of family violence.
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
To provide medical care to the uninsured.
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
The Crisis Center of Russell County was organized to provide assistance and temporary housing to victims of domestic abuse through secured temporary housing and education with job placement to transition them back into society. In…
To serve the indigent.
Provide help to domestic violence victims and encourage community efforts to promote domestic peace.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conway County Community Servce Inc and the most unlike its peers is Age to Age Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 HELP NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds RUSS BUS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of the 5th Judicial Dist Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY FOOD 4 KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CONWAY COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVCE INC ↗
- Who funds OZARK RAPE CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds FORRESTER-DAVIS DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN AND CHILDR ↗
- Who funds Age to Age Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY CHRISTIAN CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds MAINSTREET MISSION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ARKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES ↗
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 · Arvest Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 River Valley United Way Inc 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.
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.
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