· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BALLET ARKANSAS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| HERITAGE POULTRY CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| ARKANSAS BLACK HALL OF FAME | $10,000 |
| ACCESS SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| ARKANSAS CINEMA SOCIETY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 70 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
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 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 OLMSTED NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds ALOTIAN CHARITABLE EVENTS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stella Smith Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stella Smith Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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