· 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 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 $10k18 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ARKANSAS | $30,000 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $11,000 |
| ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MEADOWS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| THEA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| APPLE SEEDS | $2,500 |
| ARGENTA COMMUNITY THEATER | $2,500 |
| ST JOSEPH CENTER OF ARKANSAS | $2,000 |
| POTLUCK FOOD RESCUE | $1,500 |
| PENLAND SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST | $1,200 |
| CHI ST VINCENT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST | $1,000 |
| PROVIDENCE PARK | $1,000 |
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 (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 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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RCRhodes College2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +8%
- ACARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +54%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- MSMEADOWS SCHOOL OF ARTone grant, 2022 · $25k
- BMBLACK MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- AGARKANSAS GAME AND FISHone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 48 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 THEA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rhodes College ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE SEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds POTLUCK INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds The Trailhead Childrens Museum ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST 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 CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALDERSGATE INC ↗
- Who funds WINDGATE CHARITABLE 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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert C and Anne a Hickman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert C and Anne a Hickman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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