How much does The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas give?

The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas reported 6 itemized grants totaling $150,524, out of $14,313,848 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (84%), Human Services (13%), Health (2%).

Who are The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Food Bank of North Central Arkansas ($370k), Arkansas Foodbank ($341k), Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc ($292k).

Does The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Northeast Arkansas, Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc.

Where is The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas based?

The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas is based in AR.

The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$14M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.2MHuman Services$184kHealth$26kCommunity Improvement$7kEducation$6k

02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 6 grants below total $150,524, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,313,848 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,163,324 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $17k
$10k–50k3 grants · $83k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$33,333

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
EAST ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING	$50,000
ARKANSAS FOODBANK	$33,333
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK	$33,333
FOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS	$16,444
LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC	$9,000
FEEDING TEXAS	$8,414

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 6 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+1%

Still filing today

83%

19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

FB
FOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS
9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +67%
AF
ARKANSAS FOODBANK
5× · 2020–2025 · $341k · revenue +6%
SM
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK INC
6× · 2019–2025 · $292k · revenue +34%

Funded once

HT
Harvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc
2× · 2021–2022 · $45k · revenue -41%
RV
RIVER VALLEY REGIONAL FOODBANK
one grant, 2021 · $33k
HF
HOXIE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
one grant, 2024 · $20k

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.

Gods Pantry

Provide food and clothing for the needy

Food & Nutrition

Gods Pantry of Pulaski County Inc

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.

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South County Community Food Bank

Providing nutritious food to low income families and individuals in south clatsop county

Food & Nutrition

The Food Pantry of Indian River County Inc

Provide food to supplement the basic nutritional needs of underemployed, unemployed, and otherwise disadvantaged residents of indian river county.

Food & Nutrition

Henderson County Food Pantry

Providing food to the needy

—

Nac Food Pantry Inc

Providing weekly food assistance

Food & Nutrition

Deliverance Christian Church Minist

Helping the disadvantag

Religion

Tri-Area Ministry Food Pantry

Food pantry serving the needs of local residents.

Human Services

Leesburg Food Bank Inc

Food for needy individuals and families.

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People Help Exchange Inc

Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.

Public Safety & Disaster

Poverty Resistance Food Pantry

Proide food for low income people

Food & Nutrition

West Alabama Food Bank Inc

Our mission is to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in west alabama.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lawrence Memorial Health Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

32 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/32

Grantees still filing

18/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Food & Nutrition$1,047,493Other$311,244Human Services$33,500Community Improvement$15,414Health$9,000

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.

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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR23.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home