· Private foundation
Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k74 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k5 grants · $455k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLINTON FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION | $155,000 |
| ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| REFUGE VILLAGE | $50,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS | $40,000 |
| AUSTIN STREET CENTER | $30,000 |
| YOUTH HOME INC | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $28,200 |
| METROCREST SERVICES INC | $25,000 |
| OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS | $25,000 |
| HOPE CANCER RESOURCES | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% 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.
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 Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And’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.
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 +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 34 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $666k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +52%
- BHBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +68%
- HCHENDRIX COLLEGE4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- ASARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INCone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue -21%
- ACASHDOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $69k · revenue -50% · 33% of their budget
- BTBIG THOUGHTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +35%
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.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ashdown Community Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
215 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. 215 of the 297 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENDRIX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds METROCREST SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALDERSGATE INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE LANDING INC ↗
- Who funds OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds IMMERSE ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds ASHDOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUMMIT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLINIC OF GARLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
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: W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · The Dallas Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc
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 Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.