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Sheridan Garrison Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brandon Burlsworth Foundation; 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 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. 11 of the 18 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

F Sheridan Garrison F…Arkansas Community Fo…Arvest FoundationFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Sheridan Garrison Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheridan Garrison Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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, 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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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