· Private foundation
Simmons First Foundation Inc
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 $10k61 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $639k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $60,256 |
| U OF A COLLEGEIMPACT AR FELLOWSHIP | $26,750 |
| WINGS OF HOPE FAMILY CRISIS SERVICES | $26,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD FOOD & RESOURCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| HOOPLIFE | $25,000 |
| THE ALLEN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| PGA TOUR CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES | $25,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LITTLE ROCK | $25,000 |
| BELIEVE MEMPHIS ACADEMY | $23,310 |
| COLUMBIA CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE | $23,000 |
| REACHING FOR LIFE INC | $22,200 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | $20,000 |
| BRYANT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $19,968 |
| NEW HOPE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $19,959 |
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 (FY17–24, $332k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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 Simmons First Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 80 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $617k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $66k · revenue +39%
- HHHURRICANE HYPE CENTER2× · 2021–2023 · $61k · revenue +68%
- VLVERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC2× · 2021–2023 · $58k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- GFGO FORWARD PINE BLUFFTHE GENERATORone grant, 2021 · $500k
- DUDUCKS UNLIMITEDone grant, 2022 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS EARLY ACCESSone grant, 2019 · $75k
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.
To provide services to low income individuals.
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
The mission of east arkansas youth services, inc. is to provide a comprehensive continuum of care to include therapeutic, educational, and advocacy services, to youth and their families, and to instill motivation and courage to empower…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
Provide residential intervention and education services for delinquent and at-risk youth.
Habitat for humanity of williamson-maury (hfhwm) seeks to put god's love into action by partnering with communites to build affordable housing, inspiring hope and life-changing stability for families through homeownership.
Children's services fund ('csf') is an innovative way to support child well-being projects. while we are funded by a jackson county sales tax, we are a stand-alone organization led by an independent board. (continued on schedule o)we are…
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
We connect people at-risk for or experiencing homlessness with safe, sustainable, and affordable homes. we work to promote and preserve the dignity and quality of life for all citizens in upstate south carolina.
How this is measured
165 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. 165 of the 351 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
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
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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds HURRICANE HYPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCING INC dba OUR DAILY BREAD FOOD & RESOURCE CTR ↗
- Who funds OZARK MISSION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SEARK CONCERT ASSN ↗
- Who funds MTN VIEW FAMILY YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds RISE MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Jefferson County ↗
- Who funds CITY YOUTH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds OUR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST'S LEGACY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF TENNESSEE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PRINCESS NORA'S WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds STILLWATER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS FOUNDATION OF ARKANSAS ↗
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 · Arvest Foundation · Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · Cadence Bank Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Regions Foundation · Heart of Arkansas United Way · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Veterans United Foundation · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Simmons First Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simmons First Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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