· Private foundation
The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| POSSIBILITY LABS - SAN FRANCISCO CA | $150,000 |
| WINROCK SOLUTIONS LLC - NORTH LITTLE ROCK AR | $150,000 |
| NEO PHILANTHROPY INC - NEW YORK NEW YORK | $150,000 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC- LUBBOCK TX | $150,000 |
| DELTA CIRCLES INC - HELENA-WEST HELENA AR | $150,000 |
| ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL - LITTLE ROCK AR | $150,000 |
| THE LIBERTY INITIATIVE - ROGERS AR | $150,000 |
| JUST COMMUNITIES OF ARKANSAS - NORTH LITTLE ROCK AR | $125,000 |
| ARKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE - LITTLE ROCK AR | $125,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY AND RURAL EDUCATION DBA RURAL COMMUNITY ALLIANCE - | $125,000 |
| ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL - LITTLE ROCK AR | $125,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AR; by stated purpose, 96%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 207 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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