· Private foundation
Robert a & Mary Carleton Young Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $100,000 |
| FORT KIDS | $100,000 |
| FORT SMITH SOCCER ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| RIVERVIEW HOPE CAMPUS | $30,000 |
| ARKANSAS FAMILY ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| ECONOMICS ARKANSAS | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SHELTER FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $9,000 |
| FORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY | $5,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC | $5,000 |
| FORT SMITH PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| COUMMUNITY RESCUE MISSION | $2,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 support the activities of the fort smith children's emergency shelter, inc. through education and philanthropic activities.
Our mission is to provide non-lethal solutions to the homeless, abandoned, and feral animal population of fort smith, arkansas. we will do this through re-unifying animals with their owners, adopting animals to new families, or…
The friends of the historical museum at fort missoula is organized exclusively for the purpose of aiding and supporting the historical museum at fort missoula to keep missoula's history alive for the enjoyment and education of the public.
To protect, preserve, and promote the wm. h. h. clayton house and the victorian era of fort smith.
Girls inc. of fort smith is committed to providing a safe environment with educational and recreational programs that encourage girls to take risks and master physical, intellectual, and emotional challenges.
Education of students from three years through eighth grade.
To provide shelter, food, education, counseling, medical care, clothing and supplies to troubled boys in fort smith, arkansas and the surrounding area.
To enhance the quality of education in the fort smith public schools by providing the necessary funds for programs not otherwise funded by the fort smith public school district.
The fort smith art center is established to foster art appreciation in the community through diverse exhibitions, educational programming, dynamic events, and cultural partnerships.
Educational institution for primary and secondary age students in a non- public christian curriculum and environment
Spreading the gospel through missionaries
The school provides a personalized approach to learning via student- designed internships, personalized learning plans, and an advisor for each student.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Smith Boys & Girls Clubs and the most unlike its peers is Arkansas Family Alliance F/K/a Whitsonlife Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FORT KIDS ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW HOPE CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FAMILY ALLIANCE F/K/A WHITSONLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
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: Arvest Foundation · William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation · Elizabeth H & Stanley E Evans Charitable Foundation · The Griffin Charitable Organization · Alline B & Chloe C Davis Charitable Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers · Maurras Family Charitable Trust · Walter O Caldwell Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Robert a & Mary Carleton Young Foundation 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.