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The Rose Law Firm Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Rose Law Firm Charitable Trust

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.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$117kEducation$91kCrime & Legal$57kRecreation & Sports$6kHealth$6kHousing & Shelter$5kReligion$2kPhilanthropy$750Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $34k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$36k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$34,000
OUR HOUSE$5,000
BLOOD CANCER UNITED$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
MIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARKANSAS$1,000
ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500
ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION$250
CENTER FOR ARKANAS LEGAL SERVICES$125
JLAP FOUNDATION$125
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ARKANSAS: $250 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$260k · 9 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$260k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+138%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalEducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $89k · revenue +52%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ARKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES
    4× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +1%
  • LA
    LEGAL AID OF ARKANSAS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • AM
    ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +13%
  • RF
    RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +138%
  • TM
    THE MOUNT ST MARY ACADEMY FOUNDATIO
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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.

1
Foundation of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history

Arts & Culture
2
Arkansas Access to Justice Foundation Inc

Arkansas access to justice exists to uphold a basic but essential principle: arkansans deserve access to the legal help they need, no matter their income or background. the foundation manages funding for legal aid in arkansas, which…

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3
Arkansas Bankers Association Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc

To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education

Health
5
Disability Rights Arkansas Inc

To vigorously advocate for and enforce the legal rights of people with disabilities in arkansas.

Civil Rights
6
Arkansas Justice Collective Aiding Survivors of Trafficking and Chil

Arkansas justice collective is a nonprofit law firm serving survivors of trafficking and child abuse across arkansas and the region.

Public Benefit
7
Arkansas Appleseed Legal Justice Center

Arkansas Appleseed Justice Center is an advocacy organization launched in September 2021 to advance inclusive, collective, and systemic solutions to issues of equity, poverty, and justice facing Arkansans.

Civil Rights
8
Arkansas Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc

To promote and further research and education in the matter of civil liberties in the state of arkansas.

Civil Rights
9
Protect Ar Constitution

Protect AR Constitution is a grassroots, citizen-led effort to defeat the legislatures referred amendment which would change the threshhold of passage for ballot measures to a 60% super majority. We protect the constitutional rights of…

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10
Arkansas Farm Bureau Foundation

Arkansas farm bureau foundation (the "foundation") is organized for charitable and educational purposes to further the understanding of agricultural and rural issues, and to support the agricultural and rural community through financial…

Food & Nutrition
11
Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation

To promote awareness, encourage timely detection and support improved treatment and survivorship of prostate cancer in arkansas

Health
12
Arkansas Pharmacy Foundation

Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

14 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. 14 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $109,000 · OtherARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSARKANSAS ACCESS TO JUSTICE COMMISSI: $12,222 · OtherARKANSAS ACCESS TO JUSTICE COMMISSIIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherOUR HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Other+6 more: $6,125 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $89,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION IN…RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC: $5,280 · EducationRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INCCENTER FOR ARKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES: $18,458 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR ARKAN…LEGAL AID OF ARKANSAS: $18,333 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF ARK…ARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION: $5,250 · Crime & LegalARKANSAS BAR FOU…+2 more: $1,500 · Crime & LegalARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · HealthCentral Arkansas Volunteers in Medicine Clinic Inc: $750 · HealthMIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARKANSAS INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of Arkansas: $250 · Human Services
Other$137,347Education$94,480Crime & Legal$43,541Arts & Culture$7,500Health$5,750Recreation & Sports$1,000Philanthropy$500Human Services$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $89,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ARKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES: $18,458 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID OF ARKANSAS: $18,333 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC: $5,280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS BAR FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEX MUNDI PRO BONO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Arkansas Volunteers in Medicine Clinic Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Arkansas: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Fo…Arvest FoundationRiggs Benevolent FundNatl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Rose Law Firm Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rose Law Firm Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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