· Public charity
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas
THE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $150,524 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,313,848 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,163,324 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING | $50,000 |
| SOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK | $33,333 |
| ARKANSAS FOODBANK | $33,333 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS | $16,444 |
| LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $9,000 |
| FEEDING TEXAS | $8,414 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 34%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- FBFOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +67%
- AFARKANSAS FOODBANK5× · 2020–2025 · $341k · revenue +6%
- SMSOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK INC6× · 2019–2025 · $292k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- HTHarvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $45k · revenue -41%
- RVRIVER VALLEY REGIONAL FOODBANKone grant, 2021 · $33k
- HFHOXIE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
Provide food and clothing for the needy
A group comprised of individuals, church groups, civic organizations, and city and county officials joining together their efforts to provide Pulaski County residents food in emergency situations.
Providing nutritious food to low income families and individuals in south clatsop county
Provide food to supplement the basic nutritional needs of underemployed, unemployed, and otherwise disadvantaged residents of indian river county.
Providing food to the needy
Providing weekly food assistance
Helping the disadvantag
Food pantry serving the needs of local residents.
Food for needy individuals and families.
Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.
Proide food for low income people
Our mission is to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in west alabama.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lawrence Memorial Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jumpstart Ministries Inc. 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 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
32 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.
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 FOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds East Arkansas Area Agency On Aging Inc ↗
- Who funds Harvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS COUNTY C A R E CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARDS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BLACK RIVER AREA DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds BLYTHEVILLE COMMUNITY SAMARITAN MINISTRY ↗
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 · United Way of Northeast Arkansas · Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc · The Rigmor & Tom Loberg Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Network for Good · 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 The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas 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.