· Private foundation
Roy & Christine Sturgis Charitable & Educational Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $433k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFEPOINT CHURCH | $56,472 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF PULASKI COUNTY | $54,890 |
| POTLUCK FOOD RESCUE | $45,500 |
| CROWLEY'S RIDGE COLLEGE | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $34,638 |
| ARKANSAS HUMANITIES COUNCIL | $25,048 |
| SULTANA MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| LOW KEY ARTS | $23,064 |
| THIRD BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,271 |
| UCA FOUNDATION | $15,653 |
| MID-AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM | $10,786 |
| HOT SPRINGS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIV | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 67% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OBOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2022 · $256k · revenue +24%
- GRGLEN ROSE COMM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT7× · 2017–2023 · $239k · revenue +2% · 67% of their budget
- PSPhilander Smith College7× · 2017–2023 · $233k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- AAAR ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $73k
- AAAR ARTS CENTER & FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $60k
- FOFRIENDS OF NLR HISTORYone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
The Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History was established to help further the mission of the Division of Arkansas Heritage; to identify Arkansass Heritage and enhance the quality of life by the discovery,preservation and…
To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history
Educate the general public about items of historical significance and preservation of historic buildings, artifacts and landmarks in south arkansas
To nourish northwest arkansas communities by feeding hungry people through partnerships with other hunger relief organizations.
Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.
Support of private colleges located in arkansas
To produce a diverse body of theatrical work of the highest artistic standards. with a focus on dramatic storytelling that illuminates the human journey, the theatre entertains, engages and challenges local and regional audiences of all…
To raise funds through fundraisers and memberships to help support the upkeep and refurbishment of the arkansas governor's mansion
Provide educational programs for construction industries.
Provide african american awareness on arkansans who have made important contributions to society
The organization promotes educational activities which foster entrepreneurial development in arkansas with the goal of increasing business startup creation and leadership development.
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 115 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 OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLEN ROSE COMM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds Philander Smith College ↗
- Who funds CROWLEY'S RIDGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds POTLUCK INC ↗
- Who funds The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Well Fed Community Development Corp ↗
- Who funds LOW KEY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF PULASKI COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute ↗
- Who funds MID AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CANE HILL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALL ↗
- Who funds GAINES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Munro Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · C Louis and Mary C Cabe Foundation · Morris Foundation Inc · Brown Foundation · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · Delta Dental Plan of Arkansas Inc · The Ross Foundation · The Hussman Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roy & Christine Sturgis Charitable & Educational Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roy & Christine Sturgis Charitable & Educational Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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