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Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And at a glance

· Private foundation

Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
82
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.6MHealth$1.9MHuman Services$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.1MHousing & Shelter$677kPublic Benefit$550kArts & Culture$540kYouth Development$428kOther$0
02FY2025 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k74 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $455k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION$30,000
AUSTIN STREET CENTER$30,000
YOUTH HOME INC$30,000
HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$28,200
BRIDGE STEPS$25,000
OZARK MISSION PROJECT$25,000
ARKANSAS FOODBANK$25,000
OUR HOUSE INC$25,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CITY HOUSE: $25k → 5%RESPITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $35k → 16%WHITE COUNTY AGING PROGRAM INC: $20k → 16%HOPE LANDING INC: $25k → 19%CITY HOUSE: $15k → 5%BLUEBIRDS HOPE INC: $15k → 10%FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY: $15k → 17%HOPE LANDING INC: $25k → 19%HOPE LANDING INC: $20k → 19%SHEEP DOG IMPACT ASSISTANCE: $15k → 8%NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $25k → 8%HAVENWOOD: $22k → 8%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $35k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $30k → 14%TRAC (TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER): $25k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 14%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 14%VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 17%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $25k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $25k → 14%GAINES HOUSE INC: $25k → 17%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $25k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $20k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $15k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 14%FRANCIS A ALLEN SCHOOL FOR: $20k → 17%HOUSING FORWARD: $30k → 14%CARELINK: $25k → 17%CARELINK: $20k → 17%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $35k → 14%PARK FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $15k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $25k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $25k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $20k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $20k → 14%WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 17%FAMILY PLACE INC: $25k → 14%WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 17%WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 17%ENCORE PARK DALLAS: $25k → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $20k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $20k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $15k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $50k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $15k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $25k → 14%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.
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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 Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Andlessmore 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 97 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
163

Total granted

$8.2M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

86%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $666k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +52%
  • BH
    BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +68%
  • HC
    HENDRIX COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • AS
    ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue -21%
  • AC
    ASHDOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $69k · revenue -50% · 33% of their budget
  • FF
    FOREST FORWARDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +88%
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.

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Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
Raise Texas

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…

Human Services
4
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
5
East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

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6
Shelterwell Inc

Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter
7
Opportunity Arkansas Foundation

Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.

Philanthropy
8
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

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…

Employment
9
Casa of North Arkansas

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

Civil Rights
10
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
11
Downtown Dallas Inc

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.…

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12
The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

215 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. 215 of the 297 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)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
211/215
Grantees still filing
112/215
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON: $550,000 · OtherBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTONSUBIACO ABBEY & ACADEMY: $300,000 · OtherSUBIACO ABBEY & ACADEMY+90 more: $3,136,576 · Other+90 moreUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $1,410,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOU…HENDRIX COLLEGE: $400,000 · EducationHENDRIX COLLEGESOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $100,000 · Education+16 more: $591,200 · Education+16 moreBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $1,025,000 · HealthBILL HILLARY & CHELSE…Baptist Health Foundation Inc: $110,000 · HealthHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $90,000 · HealthEASTERSEALS ARKANSAS: $85,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $78,500 · Health+22 more: $725,000 · Health+22 moreMETROCREST SERVICES: $100,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SE…WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $75,000 · Human ServicesWORLD SERVICE…DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $70,000 · Human ServicesIMMERSE ARKANSAS: $70,000 · Human ServicesHOPE LANDING INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesCENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FORWARD: $50,000 · Human Services+30 more: $818,240 · Human Services+30 moreARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBIG THOUGHT: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE SQUARED INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFAIR PARK FIRST: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSULTANA HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterDALLAS MISSION FOR LIFE Doing business as Dallas Life: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterOZARK MISSION PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterDALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterPROMISE HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCAMP SUMMIT INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATURAL STATE COUNCIL: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentMomentous Institute: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAFE MOMENTUM: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentAPPLE SEEDS INC: $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,986,576Education$2,636,200Health$2,113,500Human Services$1,363,240Arts & Culture$450,000Housing & Shelter$335,000Youth Development$190,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $1,410,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $1,025,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHENDRIX COLLEGE: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $110,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK: $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERSEALS ARKANSAS: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $78,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCAMP ALDERSGATE INC: $71,100 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIMMERSE ARKANSAS: $70,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN: $70,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHOPE LANDING INC: $70,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASHDOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $68,846 over 1y, 33% of budgetALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $65,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH HOME INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHope Cancer Resources: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOREST FORWARD: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAUTISTIC TREATMENT CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE CLINIC OF GARLAND INC: $50,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetDALLAS MISSION FOR LIFE Doing business as Dallas Life: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIG THOUGHT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOZARK MISSION PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUMMIT INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL STATE COUNCIL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $48,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ARKANSAS INC: $46,130 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $45,000 over 2y, 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.

W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Arkansas Community Fo…Hillcrest FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Katherine C Carmody C…The Dallas FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…The Moody FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…Arvest FoundationCommunities Foundatio…
W P & Bulah Luse FoundationTX107.8× affinity52 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
76report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 297 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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