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Robert a & Mary Carleton Young Foundation at a glance

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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.

$353k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $129k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$100,000
FORT KIDS$100,000
FORT SMITH SOCCER ASSOCIATION$35,000
RIVERVIEW HOPE CAMPUS$30,000
ECONOMICS ARKANSAS$25,000
ARKANSAS FAMILY ALLIANCE$25,000
CHILDREN'S SHELTER FOUNDATION$14,000
FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS$9,000
GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC$5,000
FORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY$5,000
FORT SMITH PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION$3,000
COUMMUNITY RESCUE MISSION$2,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%COUMMUNITY RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 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.
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 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
Fort Smith Children's Emergency Shelter Foundation Inc

To support the activities of the fort smith children's emergency shelter, inc. through education and philanthropic activities.

Human Services
2
Kitties & Kanines Shelter

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…

Animals
3
Friends of the Historical Museum At Fort Missoula

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.

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4
Fort Smith Heritage Foundation Inc

To protect, preserve, and promote the wm. h. h. clayton house and the victorian era of fort smith.

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5
Girls Incorporated 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.

Youth Development
6
Fort Smith Montessori School Inc

Education of students from three years through eighth grade.

Education
7
Boys Shelter Inc

To provide shelter, food, education, counseling, medical care, clothing and supplies to troubled boys in fort smith, arkansas and the surrounding area.

Community Improvement
8
Fort Smith Public Schools Found Inc

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.

Philanthropy
9
Fort Smith Art Center Inc

The fort smith art center is established to foster art appreciation in the community through diverse exhibitions, educational programming, dynamic events, and cultural partnerships.

Arts & Culture
10
Ark City Christian Academy Inc

Educational institution for primary and secondary age students in a non- public christian curriculum and environment

Education
11
North Arkansas Gospel Mission

Spreading the gospel through missionaries

Religion
12
Future School of Fort Smith

The school provides a personalized approach to learning via student- designed internships, personalized learning plans, and an advisor for each student.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Smith Boys & Girls Clubs; 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.
03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTSFORT KIDS: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFORT KIDS+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFORT SMITH SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsFORT SMITH …ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentARKANSAS C…FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentFORT SMITH…RIVERVIEW HOPE CAMPUS: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterRIVERVIEW…ARKANSAS FAMILY ALLIANCE F/K/A WHITSONLIFE INC: $25,000 · ReligionCHILDREN'S SHELTER FOUNDATION: $14,000 · OtherFORT SMITH PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC: $5,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$205,000Recreation & Sports$35,000Youth Development$34,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Religion$25,000Other$17,000Health$5,000Human Services$2,000

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 budgetFORT KIDS: $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetFORT SMITH SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetRIVERVIEW HOPE CAMPUS: $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetARKANSAS FAMILY ALLIANCE F/K/A WHITSONLIFE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,000 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.

Arvest FoundationWilliam Thomas & May …Elizabeth H & Stanley…The Griffin Charitabl…Alline B & Chloe C Da…Arkansas Community Fo…Doss T Sutton Charita…Maurras Family Charit…Walter O Caldwell Fou…The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
Arvest FoundationAR23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robert a & Mary Carleton Young Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert a & Mary Carleton Young Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 12 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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