· Private foundation
Stella Smith Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $29
- $10k–50k9 grants · $188k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $433k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $161,500 |
| KENNEDY CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $65,000 |
| CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM | $56,000 |
| ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $50,000 |
| ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE | $50,000 |
| HUNTINGTON NATIONAL ARTSPACE | $50,000 |
| MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION | $35,385 |
| ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $32,141 |
| WILLIAM J CLINTON FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BALLET ARKANSAS | $25,000 |
| ARKANSAS CINEMA SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ARKANSAS BLACK HALL OF FAME | $10,000 |
| HERITAGE POULTRY CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| ACCESS SCHOOLS | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +49% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
- BABALLET ARKANSAS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +188%
- ACARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL4× · 2017–2020 · $145k · revenue +55%
- TGTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA3× · 2018–2020 · $75k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- ASARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +225%
- CFCARTI Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +41%
- TSTHEATRE SQUARED INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -35%
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.
Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.
The purpose of the arkansas humanities council is to promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the humanities in arkansas. to achieve its purpose, the council awards grants through a competitive application process to nonprofit…
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…
To improve occupational opportunity and public perception of legally blind arkansans through community engagement, work skills enhancement and the production of quality goods and services.
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…
Advocate for educational professionals and unite our members and the state to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
The alliance is a collaborative organization that works on behalf of arkansans facing hunger.
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. 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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 13% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 70 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 BALLET ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
- Who funds SCULPTURE AT THE RIVER MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CARTI Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CINEMA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE SQUARED INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE POULTRY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALOTIAN CHARITABLE EVENTS ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds OLMSTED NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE 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 · Arvest Foundation · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · The Coulson Foundation · The Hussman Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Trinity Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Robert C and Anne a Hickman Foundation · Brown Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Walton Family Foundation Inc
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 Stella Smith Charitable 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.