· Private foundation
The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k43 grants · $4.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORWARD ARKANSAS - LITTLE ROCK AR | $600,000 |
| ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (ARCF) - LITTLE ROCK AR | $500,000 |
| INNOVATIVE POVERTY SOLUTIONS - FAYETTEVILLE AR | $200,000 |
| COMMUNITIES UNLIMITED - FAYETTEVILLE AR | $200,000 |
| DELTA CIRCLES INC - HELENA-WEST HELENA AR | $150,000 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC- LUBBOCK TX | $150,000 |
| POSSIBILITY LABS - SAN FRANCISCO CA | $150,000 |
| NEO PHILANTHROPY INC - NEW YORK NEW YORK | $150,000 |
| ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL - LITTLE ROCK AR | $150,000 |
| WINROCK SOLUTIONS LLC - NORTH LITTLE ROCK AR | $150,000 |
| THE LIBERTY INITIATIVE - ROGERS AR | $150,000 |
| ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL - LITTLE ROCK AR | $125,000 |
| ARKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE - LITTLE ROCK AR | $125,000 |
| JUST COMMUNITIES OF ARKANSAS - NORTH LITTLE ROCK AR | $125,000 |
| FAITH MATTERS NETWORK - NASHVILLE TN | $125,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AR; read by stated purpose it is 96% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
69 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 42 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
- FAFORWARD ARKANSAS - LITTLE ROCK AR4× · 2021–2024 · $2.6M
- ACARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (ARCF) - LITTLE ROCK AR2× · 2023–2024 · $1.7M
- ACARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC - LITTLE ROCK AR3× · 2021–2023 · $1.7M
Funded once
- FAFORWARD ARKANSASgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +95% · 49% of their budget
- CUCOMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $330k · revenue +116%
- AFASSET FUNDERS NETWORKone grant, 2020 · $275k
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.
Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.
To provide services to low income individuals.
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.
The organization provides training and service assistance to farm development, community education programs, land retention, program management, housing, rural and community development
Ar public policy panel is a statewide organization dedicated to achieving social and economic justice by organizing citizen groups around the state, educating and supporting them to be more effective and powerful, and linking them with one…
Provide african american awareness on arkansans who have made important contributions to society
The alliance is a collaborative organization that works on behalf of arkansans facing hunger.
Stregthen the advanced energy business cluster in arkansas by conducting workforce development employer forums throughout the state; sponsoring and identifying programs that link innovators to markets; developing strategies to remove…
Provide help to domestic violence victims and encourage community efforts to promote domestic peace.
Provide support, education and training for Low-Income indivuduals to help become self-sufficient and lead lives of dignity
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families and the most unlike its peers is Museum of Native American History 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 24 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 207 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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 · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Southern Bancorp Capital Partners · Wal-Mart Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Entergy Charitable Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Winthrop Rockefeller 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.