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River Valley United Way Inc

To disperse funds for charitable purposes.

$192k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$206kHuman Services$170kCrime & Legal$148kHealth$134kFood & Nutrition$115kYouth Development$29kEducation$14k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $184,510, the rows itemized in this filing. The $192,010 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $176k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$298k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%Community Service Inc: $21k → 15%Community Service Inc: $14k → 15%River Valley Shelter for Battered Women: $10k → 15%Community Service Inc: $10k → 15%River Valley Shelter for Battered Women: $9k → 15%River Valley Shelter for Battered Women: $9k → 15%River Valley Shelter: $9k → 15%River Valley Shelter: $9k → 15%Community Service Inc: $6k → 15%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of River Valley United Way Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AR; by stated purpose, 98%.

River Valley United Way Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$795k · 13 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$795k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+13%

Still filing today

77%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • RB
    RUSS BUS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $111k · revenue +52%
  • CO
    CASA of the 5th Judicial Dist Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $93k · revenue +24%
  • RV
    RIVER VALLEY FOOD 4 KIDS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $74k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • SF
    SCHOLARS FUND FOR EDUCATION
    one grant, 2020 · $14k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ARKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +13%
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
River Valley Primary Care Services

To provide quality comprehensive and preventative health care to all residents of the arkansas area without regard to their ability to pay.

Health
2
Casa of North Arkansas

The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights
3
Ozark Regional Share and Care

Provide basic human services such as food, clothing, shelter, medical, etc. for local people in need

Human Services
4
Central Arkansas Development Council

To provide services to low income individuals.

Community Improvement
5
Arkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc

The organization provides a therapeutic shelter and care for homeless and/or abused children.

Housing & Shelter
6
Rise House Arkansas

To provide assistance to victims of domestic abuse and to educate the community to work toward the prevention of family violence.

Human Services
7
Legal Aid of Arkansas

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

Crime & Legal
8
Christian Community Care Clinic

To provide medical care to the uninsured.

Health
9
The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
10
Crisis Center of Russell County

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Roanoke Area Ministries

To serve the indigent.

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12
Arkansas Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Provide help to domestic violence victims and encourage community efforts to promote domestic peace.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conway County Community Servce Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HELP NETWORK INC: $150,462 · Human ServicesHELP NETWORK INCRUSS BUS INC: $111,250 · Human ServicesRUSS BUS INCRIVER VALLEY FOOD 4 KIDS INC: $74,016 · Human ServicesRIVER VALLEY FOOD 4 KIDS INCCONWAY COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVCE INC: $51,093 · Human ServicesCONWAY COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVCE INCRIVER VALLEY SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN AND CHILDR: $46,000 · Human ServicesRIVER VALLEY SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN AND CHILDRJOHNSON COUNTY HELPING HANDS INC: $52,000 · OtherJOHNSON COUNTY HELPING …OZARK RAPE CRISIS INC: $48,471 · OtherOZARK RAPE CRISIS INCAge to Age Inc: $37,958 · OtherAge to Age IncMAINSTREET MISSION: $18,750 · OtherMAINSTREET MISSIONSCHOLARS FUND FOR EDUCATION: $14,000 · OtherSCHOLARS FUND FOR EDUCA…CASA of the 5th Judicial Dist Inc: $93,008 · Crime & LegalCASA of the 5…CENTER FOR ARKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES: $7,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR AR…FORRESTER-DAVIS DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $47,750 · EducationRIVER VALLEY CHRISTIAN CLINIC INC: $35,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY INC: $29,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$432,821Other$171,179Crime & Legal$100,008Education$47,750Health$35,000Youth Development$29,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHELP NETWORK INC: $150,462 over 5y, 36% of budgetRUSS BUS INC: $111,250 over 5y, 10% of budgetCASA of the 5th Judicial Dist Inc: $93,008 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetRIVER VALLEY FOOD 4 KIDS INC: $74,016 over 5y, 10% of budgetCONWAY COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVCE INC: $51,093 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOZARK RAPE CRISIS INC: $48,471 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetFORRESTER-DAVIS DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $47,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRIVER VALLEY SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN AND CHILDR: $46,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetAge to Age Inc: $37,958 over 3y, 11% of budgetRIVER VALLEY CHRISTIAN CLINIC INC: $35,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY INC: $29,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMAINSTREET MISSION: $18,750 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCENTER FOR ARKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR25.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 River Valley United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from River Valley United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to River Valley United Way Inc?

    Find your warmest path to River Valley United Way Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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