· Private foundation
Robert and Cynthia East Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UAMS FOUNDATION FUND | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTION ELEMENTARY CHILDREN'S FUND | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN SAFETY CENTER | $5,000 |
| GOODNESS VILLAGE | $5,000 |
| MAGDALINE SERENITY HOUSE | $2,500 |
| YOUTH HOME | $1,000 |
| LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH | $1,000 |
| ECONOMICS ARKANSAS | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 83% of Robert and Cynthia East Charitable Foundation’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, 24%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMAGDALENE SERENITY HOUSE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +314%
- TFTHEA FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue +29%
- CSCHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER4× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- ACARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +10%
- SHSecond Helping NWA Incone grant, 2021 · $4k
- ASARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +16%
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.
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.
To provide assistance to those in need living in the community.
Ministry for child welfare and families in crisis.
Arkansas employment career centers' mission is to assist individuals with career opportunities through education and training. the primary target groups are individuals returning home from incarceration, veterans, homeless, and young…
Arkansas Appleseed Justice Center is an advocacy organization launched in September 2021 to advance inclusive, collective, and systemic solutions to issues of equity, poverty, and justice facing Arkansans.
Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.
The alliance is a collaborative organization that works on behalf of arkansans facing hunger.
Promote philanthropy among women and to help women and girls achieve their full potential
The organization provides training and service assistance to farm development, community education programs, land retention, program management, housing, rural and community development
To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MAGDALENE SERENITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THEA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOODNESS VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Second Helping NWA Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · The Schmieding Foundation · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · The Robert C and Anne a Hickman Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert and Cynthia East Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Cynthia East Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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