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Town Branch Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30M
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$3.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$53MArts & Culture$30MEducation$27MCommunity Improvement$18MRecreation & Sports$14MEnvironment$4.9MSocial Science$800kYouth Development$413kOther$0
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $268k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+34 grants · $28M
$250,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$500M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Peel Compton Foundation$3,854,715
The Peel Compton Foundation$2,572,229
Individual grant recipient$2,000,000
Heartland Forward Inc$1,661,880
Tulsa Community Foundation$1,440,000
TNTP Inc$1,320,148
Oklahoma Public School Resource Center Inc$1,000,030
Arkansas Public School Resource Center Inc$849,000
University of Arkansas Foundation Inc$833,333
The Peel Compton Foundation$750,000
Walton Family Foundation Inc$733,012
Arkansas Public School Resource Center Inc$702,500
Phalen Leadership Academies Indiana Inc$695,000
University of Arkansas Foundation Inc$623,324
Oklahoma Public School Resource Center Inc$620,500
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 (FY18–24, $298k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Cookson Hills Christian School Inc: $40k → 18%Cookson Hills Christian School Inc: $40k → 18%GRAYSON COUNTY SHELTER: $9k → 11%Cookson Hills Christian School Inc: $40k → 18%Grayson County Shelter: $9k → 11%COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $40k → 18%Cookson Hills Christian School Inc: $40k → 18%Grayson County Shelter: $9k → 11%Cookson Hills Christian School Inc: $40k → 18%Texoma Family Shelter Inc: $8k → 11%Texoma Family Shelter Inc: $8k → 11%GRAYSON COUNTY SHELTER: $8k → 11%Texoma Family Shelter Inc: $8k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
MA
CA
MO
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
OK
TX
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.
04

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 Town Branch Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in AR; by stated purpose, 75%.

Town Branch Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$132M · 34 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
12

Total granted

$132M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+20%

Still filing today

82%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • HF
    Heartland Forward Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $17M · revenue +20% · 50% of their budget
  • OP
    OKLAHOMA PUBLIC SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8.8M · revenue +48% · 78% of their budget
  • AP
    ARKANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SS
    SCHOOL SMART KC INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2.3M · revenue +20% · 28% of their budget
  • CR
    CRISTO REY OKLAHOMA CITY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $599k
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI CHARTER SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2023 · $570k · revenue -39%
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
Opportunity Arkansas Foundation

Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.

Philanthropy
2
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
3
Tulsa Legacy Charter School

To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.

Education
4
Arkansas Education Association

Advocate for educational professionals and unite our members and the state to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.

Education
5
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc

To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Arkansas Community Foundation Inc

Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.

Philanthropy
8
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families

Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…

Human Services
9
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

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10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
12
The State Chamber Research Foundation

The State Chamber Research Foundation strives to support Oklahoma's growth and increase prosperity for all Oklahomans. We create solution orientated programming, advance research and policy, and provide sound data geared to advancing…

Unclassified
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 The Peel Compton Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 63 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
28/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Walton Family Foundation Inc: $30,104,340 · PhilanthropyWalton Family Foundation …TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,710,000 · PhilanthropyTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO…+2 more: $350,000 · PhilanthropyCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $30,000,000 · Arts & CultureCrystal Bridges-Museum…The Peel Compton Foundation: $19,659,290 · OtherThe Peel Compton Found…Individual grant recipient: $2,570,120 · OtherIndividual grant recip…Individual grant recipient: $1,826,768 · OtherIndividual grant recip…+32 more: $4,861,397 · Other+32 moreOKLAHOMA PUBLIC SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTER: $8,793,648 · EducationOKLAHOMA PUBLIC SCH…ARKANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTER: $4,292,571 · EducationARKANSAS PUBLIC SCH…UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,542,468 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKAN…SCHOOL SMART KC INC: $2,348,566 · EducationSCHOOL SMART KC INCDOVE SCHOOLS INC: $1,700,000 · EducationDOVE SCHOOLS INCTNTP INC: $1,320,148 · Education+11 more: $4,090,752 · Education+11 moreHeartland Forward Inc: $16,814,069 · Community ImprovementHeartland For…+1 more: $350,000 · Community ImprovementBENTONVILLE BELLA VISTA TRAILBLAZERS: $11,079,146 · Recreation & SportsNORTHWEST ARKANSAS LAND TRUST: $3,117,883 · EnvironmentWATERSHED CONSERVATION RESOURCE CENTER: $308,194 · Environment+1 more: $116,720 · Environment
Philanthropy$33,164,340Arts & Culture$30,000,000Other$28,917,575Education$25,088,153Community Improvement$17,164,069Recreation & Sports$11,079,146Environment$3,542,797

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 budgetWalton Family Foundation Inc: $30,104,340 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $30,000,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetThe Peel Compton Foundation: $19,659,290 over 5y, 83% of budgetHeartland Forward Inc: $16,814,069 over 4y, 50% of budgetBENTONVILLE BELLA VISTA TRAILBLAZERS: $11,079,146 over 3y, 42% of budgetOKLAHOMA PUBLIC SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTER: $8,793,648 over 2y, 78% of budgetARKANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTER: $4,292,571 over 2y, 13% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS LAND TRUST: $3,117,883 over 2y, 57% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,710,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,542,468 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSCHOOL SMART KC INC: $2,348,566 over 1y, 28% of budgetDOVE SCHOOLS INC: $1,700,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTNTP INC: $1,320,148 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $933,618 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARDING CHARTER PREPARATORY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $795,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetPHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA: $695,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $650,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI CHARTER SCHOOLS: $569,600 over 1y, 17% of budgetShow Me KC Schools Inc: $488,200 over 1y, 49% of budgetBELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $390,837 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSANTA FE SOUTH SCHOOLS INC: $360,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $358,125 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetADVANCE RURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $330,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetWATERSHED CONSERVATION RESOURCE CENTER: $308,194 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $255,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $240,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $240,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $128,700 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $116,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $103,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Arkansas Community College Foundation Inc: $98,365 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEXODUSLIFE: $60,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTexoma Family Shelter: $58,125 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetHOME HOSPICE OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC: $58,125 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL GRAYSON COUNTY: $41,250 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetGRAYSON COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $35,625 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCITY CONNECTIONS INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Denison Texas: $22,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMIA HAMM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF PULASKI COUNTY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetREDSIDE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetNATIONAL TAX LIMITATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Walton Family Foundat…Arkansas Community Fo…Alice L Walton Founda…Inasmuch FoundationArvest FoundationOklahoma Public Schoo…United Way of Grayson…W B Munson Foundation…Elias & Hanna Regensb…Nabholz Charitable Fo…Texoma Community Foun…Charter Fund Inc D/B/…
Walton Family Foundation IncAR37.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Walton Family Foundation Inc · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Alice L Walton Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Oklahoma Public School Resource Center · United Way of Grayson County Inc · W B Munson Foundation Xxxxx5008 · Elias & Hanna Regensburger Foundation · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · Texoma Community Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund

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 Town Branch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Town Branch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Oklahoma Public School Resource Center: 67% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • Maryland Zoological Society Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Dove Schools Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Town Branch Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Town Branch Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 63 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home