· Private foundation
The Robert C and Anne a Hickman 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of THE ROBERT C AND ANNE A HICKMAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ARKANSAS | $30,000 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $11,000 |
| MEADOWS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| THEA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ARGENTA COMMUNITY THEATER | $2,500 |
| APPLE SEEDS | $2,500 |
| ST JOSEPH CENTER OF ARKANSAS | $2,000 |
| POTLUCK FOOD RESCUE | $1,500 |
| PENLAND SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST | $1,200 |
| THE ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| OUR HOUSE | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 82% 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
- RCRhodes College2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +8%
- ACARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +54%
- ASAPPLE SEEDS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- MSMEADOWS SCHOOL OF ARTone grant, 2022 · $25k
- BMBLACK MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- SSEWANEEone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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…
To preserve and enhance quality of life for all people in northwest arkansas through the permanent protection of land.
Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.
The alliance is a collaborative organization that works on behalf of arkansans facing hunger.
To ensure a thriving future for arkansas wildlife. the organization serves as an independent voice for all species of arkansas wildlife, a reliable source of factual information, and an inclusive partner toward the conservation and…
The organization provides training and service assistance to farm development, community education programs, land retention, program management, housing, rural and community development
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
The organization accepts gifts of real and personal property that persons and entities wish to donate to member campuses of the arkansas state university system in support and furtherance of its educational purposes and mission.
Parks and Recreation Foundation of Arkansas is organized to support, protect, enhance and add value to places that provide exceptional recreation experience and build on the legacy of the civilian conservation corps by providing a conduit…
Provide african american awareness on arkansans who have made important contributions to society
Usher in leadership & policies that make arkansas the best place to live, work, and raise a family.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Windgate Charitable Foundation 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 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 48 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 ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Rhodes College ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APPLE SEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POTLUCK INC ↗
- Who funds The Trailhead Childrens Museum ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER OF ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Central Arkansas Library System Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALDERSGATE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Brown Foundation · Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc · John R & Judy W Fletcher Family Foundation · Stella Smith Charitable Trust · Rebsamen Fund · Arkansas Children's Hospital · Walton Family Foundation Inc
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 Robert C and Anne a Hickman Foundation 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.