· Public charity
The Methodist Foundation for Arkansas
The mission of The Methodist Foundation for Arkansas is to establish and manage charitable funds to strengthen and expand Methodist ministries across Arkansas.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 50 grants below total $1,321,078 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,546,384 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $225,306 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $672k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
- $250k+1 grant · $418k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Arkansas Conference UMC | $417,569 |
| Mt Eagle Retreat Center | $65,000 |
| Philander Smith University | $50,000 |
| Hendrix College | $50,000 |
| Mountain Home Food Bank | $40,000 |
| Methodist Family Health | $38,002 |
| The Manna Center | $35,000 |
| Wesley College - Tanzania | $30,000 |
| Imagination Library | $30,000 |
| Community Services Inc | $25,000 |
| Oscar Washington Foundation | $25,000 |
| Lil Rock Wash and Roll | $25,000 |
| Donaldson Foundaiton | $25,000 |
| The Centers | $25,000 |
| Immerce Arkansas | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 75% 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.
31 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $446k 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
- MFMETHODIST FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $442k · revenue +17%
- HCHENDRIX COLLEGE4× · 2020–2024 · $357k · revenue +11%
- LPLydia Patterson Institute2× · 2020–2021 · $216k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- OCOther charitable organizations none exceeding 5000one grant, 2020 · $184k
- CPCHILDREN'S PROTECTION CENTERone grant, 2023 · $52k · revenue +12%
- AFARKANSAS FOODBANKgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +151%
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.
To provide services to low income individuals.
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.
To nourish northwest arkansas communities by feeding hungry people through partnerships with other hunger relief organizations.
The organization provides a therapeutic shelter and care for homeless and/or abused children.
To provide quality compassionate behavioral healthcare services to children and families of arkansas through a comprehensive continuum of programs which include residential treatment center care, therapeutic group home care, emergency…
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
To provide assistance to those in need living in the community.
Provide educational programs for construction industries.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
The mission of east arkansas youth services, inc. is to provide a comprehensive continuum of care to include therapeutic, educational, and advocacy services, to youth and their families, and to instill motivation and courage to empower…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centers for Youth and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 102 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 Philander Smith College ↗
- Who funds METHODIST FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENDRIX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lydia Patterson Institute ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALDERSGATE INC ↗
- Who funds OZARK MISSION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT EAGLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Micah 6 8 Initiative ↗
- Who funds Well Fed Community Development Corp ↗
- Who funds THE MANNA CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds AR KIDS READ ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S PROTECTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds IMMERSE ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds TANZANIA WESLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WINTHROP ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CONWAY COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVCE INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST NURSING HOME OF FORT SMITH IN ↗
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 · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Heart of Arkansas United Way · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc · Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc · Wal-Mart Foundation · Excellerate Foundation Charitable Support · Rebsamen Fund · Arkansas Children's Hospital
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 Methodist Foundation for 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.
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