· Private foundation
The Hussman Foundation
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 $10k29 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Arkansas Community Foundation | $150,000 |
| Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts | $100,000 |
| Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation | $50,000 |
| PARK Endowment Fund | $40,000 |
| Hoover Institution | $25,000 |
| Central Arkansas Library Foundation | $22,500 |
| CHI St Vincent | $22,208 |
| Winthrop Rockefeller Cancer Center | $20,000 |
| The Muses Inc | $20,000 |
| Arkansas BUSINESS HALL OF FAME | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| James Madison Program at Princeton university | $10,000 |
| Christ Church Capital Campaign | $10,000 |
| United States Marshall Museum | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
67 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 8 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AMARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +13%
- TMThe Muses Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $164k · revenue +47%
- EAEASTERSEALS ARKANSAS9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- POPOPS ON THE RIVER ENDOWMENTone grant, 2021 · $168k
- LALR Advertising information Commissionone grant, 2023 · $50k
- AArtspaceone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history
Provide african american awareness on arkansans who have made important contributions to society
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…
Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.
See schedule othe exempt purpose of the arkansas bar foundation is to promote the following educational, literary, scientific and charitable purposes: to improve and facilitate the administration of justice; to promote study and research…
The purposes of the arkansas bar association include the following: advance the administration of justice; foster and maintain on the part of attorneys high ideals of integrity, learning, competence and public service, and high standards…
How this is measured
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 131 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 ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FALLEN JOURNALISTS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Muses Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds READWORKSINC ↗
- Who funds BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION 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 · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Arvest Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Lpr Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Rebsamen Fund · Brown Foundation · George H Dunklin Jr Charitable Foundation · C Louis and Mary C Cabe Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hussman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hussman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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