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· Private foundation

Tri S Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.2M
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Education$1.7MHuman Services$1.6MReligion$782kPhilanthropy$570kHealth$210kHousing & Shelter$170kRecreation & Sports$166kInternational$53kOther$0
02FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $990k
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.1M
$115,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROWLEY'S RIDGE COLLEGE$1,000,000
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN HOME$800,000
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUND$570,000
GREEN VALLEY BIBLE CAMP$500,000
HARDING UNIVERSITY$250,000
CHILDRENS HOMES INC$200,000
RIVER CITY MINISTRY$195,000
CROWLEY'S RIDGE ACADEMY$120,000
WYLDEWOOD DBA CAMP WYLDEWOOD$115,000
HAND UP HOUSING OF ARKANSAS$110,000
EASTERN EUROPEAN MISSIONS$100,000
ANCHOR POINTE RECOVERY CENTER INC$100,000
BENTONVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$50,000
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$35,000
HEART TO HEART OF NWA$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $493k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAND UP HOUSING OF ARKANSAS: $110k → 17%FAIR HAVEN CHILDREN'S HOME: $12k → 15%CHILDRENS HOMES INC: $200k → 16%HAND UP HOUSING OF ARKANSAS: $10k → 17%HAND UP HOUSING OF ARKANSAS: $10k → 17%CHILDRENS HOMES INC: $38k → 16%HAND UP HOUSING OF ARKANSAS: $10k → 17%HAND UP HOUSING OF ARKANSAS: $10k → 17%HAND UP HOUSING OF ARKANSAS: $9k → 17%CHILDRENS HOMES INC: $25k → 16%CHILDRENS HOMES INC: $25k → 16%CHILDRENS HOMES INC: $15k → 16%CHILDRENS HOMES INC: $10k → 16%CHILDRENS HOMES INC: $9k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 18 repeat orgs$479k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
8

Total granted

$4.2M
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+36%

Still filing today

61%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterReligionHealthOther

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

  • CR
    CROWLEY'S RIDGE COLLEGE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +50%
  • CH
    CHILDRENS HOME INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $322k · revenue +45%
  • CR
    CROWLEYS RIDGE ACADEMY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $253k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • SC
    Searcy Childrens Home Inc Sparrows Promise
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -9%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • FH
    FAIR HAVEN CHILDREN'S HOMEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +36%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
2
Comfort Care Ministries Inc

provide christian counseling

Human Services
3
Horizon Christian Academy Inc

private school

Education
4
Associates in Christian Counseling

The function of associates in christian counseling is to provide psychological counseling and education services to individuals, couples, and families. services provided are for a wide range of psychological problems including, but not…

Human Services
5
East Tennessee Christian Home Inc

The Home was organized to provide for the health, welfare and benefit of children whose parents or guardians are unable to care for them. The Home offers residential care and onsite academic

Human Services
6
Harrells Christian Academy

The mission of harrells christian academy is to prepare each student for higher education within an environment that instills judeo-christian values, fosters self-discipline, enhances creativity, and promises a love and respect for…

Education
7
Hillcrest Christian Academy

Teach the minds and train the hearts of children in a thoroughly christian environment.

Education
8
Crawford Christian Academy

Christian day school with pre-k thru 12

Education
9
Ozarks Christian Academy

Christian school

Education
10
Still Waters Christian Boarding School

Ministry provides a spiritual healing ministry for troubled and delinquent children, and quality academic education.

Education
11
Cornerstone College & Seminary

Teaching Bible Students

Education
12
Crosspointe Biblical Counseling Ctr

Provide biblical counseling to those that are in need (distressed) and for the advancement of religion

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fair Haven Children's Home and the most unlike its peers is Cedar Rock Ministries 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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN HOME — $866,250 · OtherSOUTHERN CHRISTIAN HOMEGREEN VALLEY BIBLE CAMP INC — $596,750 · OtherGREEN VALLEY BIBLE CAMP INCCROWLEYS RIDGE ACADEMY — $252,500 · OtherCROWLEYS RIDGE ACADEMYHarding University Inc — $250,000 · OtherHarding University IncWYLDEWOOD DBA CAMP WYLDEWOOD — $131,000 · OtherEASTERN EUROPEAN MISSION — $100,000 · Other+14 more — $268,000 · Other+14 moreCROWLEY'S RIDGE COLLEGE — $1,079,500 · EducationCROWLEY'S RIDGE COLLEGECHILDRENS HOME INC — $322,250 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS HOME IN…RIVER CITY MINISTRY OF PULASKI COUNTY — $285,000 · Human ServicesRIVER CITY MINIST…HAND UP HOUSING OF ARKANSAS — $159,000 · Human ServicesHAND UP HOUSING O…HOPE HARBOR INC — $42,000 · Human Services+1 more — $12,000 · Human ServicesMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC — $570,000 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STANL…Anchor Pointe Recovery Center Inc — $160,000 · Housing & ShelterBENTONVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $100,500 · Arts & CultureNewlife Behavior International — $5,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $52,850 · International
Other$2,464,500Education$1,079,500Human Services$820,250Philanthropy$570,000Housing & Shelter$160,000Arts & Culture$105,500International$52,850

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCROWLEY'S RIDGE COLLEGE — $1,079,500 over 6y, 21% of budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC — $570,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS HOME INC — $322,250 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetRIVER CITY MINISTRY OF PULASKI COUNTY — $285,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetCROWLEYS RIDGE ACADEMY — $252,500 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetHarding University Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAnchor Pointe Recovery Center Inc — $160,000 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetHAND UP HOUSING OF ARKANSAS — $159,000 over 6y, 68% of budgetBENTONVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $100,500 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $52,850 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetHOPE HARBOR INC — $42,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSearcy Childrens Home Inc Sparrows Promise — $30,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCARPENTER PLACE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRIES OF OKLAHOMA INC — $25,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFAIR HAVEN CHILDREN'S HOME — $12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOPEWORKS OF GREATER LITTLE ROCK — $4,500 over 1y, 79% of budgetCedar Rock Ministries Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budget
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.

  • Who funds CROWLEY'S RIDGE COLLEGE
  • Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC
  • Who funds CHILDRENS HOME INC
  • Who funds RIVER CITY MINISTRY OF PULASKI COUNTY
  • Who funds CROWLEYS RIDGE ACADEMY
  • Who funds Harding University Inc
  • Who funds Anchor Pointe Recovery Center Inc
  • Who funds HAND UP HOUSING OF ARKANSAS
  • Who funds BENTONVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC
  • Who funds Searcy Childrens Home Inc Sparrows Promise
  • Who funds CARPENTER PLACE INC
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRIES OF OKLAHOMA INC
  • Who funds HEART TO HEART OF NWA INC
  • Who funds FAIR HAVEN CHILDREN'S HOME
  • Who funds Newlife Behavior International
  • Who funds HOPEWORKS OF GREATER LITTLE ROCK
  • Who funds Cedar Rock Ministries Inc

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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Tri S 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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