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Sheridan Garrison Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172021.

Philanthropy$1.8MHuman Services$102kAnimals$50kRecreation & Sports$41kHealth$40kCrime & Legal$26kEducation$22kHousing & Shelter$22kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,221,275
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
F SHERIDAN GARRISON FOUNDATION$1,221,275
WILLIAM P GARRISON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$605,742
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $18k → 13%THE BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%THE BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%THE BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%RESTORE HUMANITY: $9k → 14%RESTORE HUMANITY: $9k → 14%RESTORE HUMANITY: $9k → 14%RESTORE HUMANITY: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$307k · 12 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2021, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$307k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+251%

Still filing today

58%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther

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

  • BB
    BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $56k · revenue +30%
  • RF
    RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $41k · revenue +67%
  • RH
    RESTORE HUMANITY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $28k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • PF
    PORTER FUND LITERARY PRIZE
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • NA
    NORTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +251%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Foundation of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history

Arts & Culture
2
Arkansas Bankers Association Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Arkansas Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired

The foundation's mission is to broaden and enhance educational and employment opportunities for persons with visual impairments.

Education
4
Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame Inc

The selection, recognition, and acknowledgement of those who throughout outstanding achievement in any form of sport have brought honor and prestige to Arkansas

Arts & Culture
5
Arkansas Farm Bureau Scholarship Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Hospice Foundation of the Ozarks Inc
Health
8
Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
9
Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc

The alliance is a collaborative organization that works on behalf of arkansans facing hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
Ozarks Food Harvest Foundation

Ozarks food harvest foundation serves as a supporting organization to ozarks food harvest, inc.

Food & Nutrition
11
Arkansas Farm Bureau Foundation

Arkansas farm bureau foundation (the "foundation") is organized for charitable and educational purposes to further the understanding of agricultural and rural issues, and to support the agricultural and rural community through financial…

Food & Nutrition
12
Parks and Recreation Foundation of Arkansas

Parks and Recreation Foundation of Arkansas is organized to support, protect, enhance and add value to places that provide exceptional recreation experience and build on the legacy of the civilian conservation corps by providing a conduit…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brandon Burlsworth Foundation and the most unlike its peers is F Sheridan Garrison Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

F SHERIDAN GARRISON FOUNDATION — $1,221,275 · PhilanthropyF SHERIDAN GARRISON FOUNDATIONWILLIAM P GARRISON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $605,742 · OtherWILLIAM P GARRISON CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONBIG DOG RESCUE PROJECT — $43,000 · OtherBIG DOG RESCUE PROJECTBOONE COUNTY SPECIAL SERVICES INC — $26,822 · OtherWASHINGTON COUNTY DRUG COURT — $26,000 · Other+7 more — $67,988 · Other+7 moreBRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION — $55,834 · Human ServicesRESTORE HUMANITY INC — $28,000 · Human ServicesRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC — $40,500 · EducationNORTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · EducationArkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc — $22,000 · Housing & ShelterOZARK HUMANE SOCIETY — $7,356 · Animals
Philanthropy$1,221,275Other$769,552Human Services$83,834Education$43,500Housing & Shelter$22,000Animals$7,356

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetF SHERIDAN GARRISON FOUNDATION — $1,221,275 over 1y, 97% of budgetBRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION — $55,834 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC — $40,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRESTORE HUMANITY INC — $28,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetBOONE COUNTY SPECIAL SERVICES INC — $26,822 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetArkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc — $22,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWELCOMEHEALTH — $10,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOZARK HUMANE SOCIETY — $7,356 over 2y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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.

F Sheridan Garrison FoundationAR17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: F Sheridan Garrison Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sheridan Garrison Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sheridan Garrison Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sheridan Garrison Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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