· Private foundation
Roy & Christine Sturgis Charitable & Educational Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of ROY & CHRISTINE STURGIS CHARITABLE & EDUCATIONAL TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| CLARK CO HISTORICAL ASSOC | $10,000 |
| HOT SPRINGS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIV | $10,000 |
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 (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 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Humanities Council and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 115 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
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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 & Christine Sturgis Charitable & Educational Trust 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.
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.
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