How much does Tri S Foundation give?

Tri S Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $4,220,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Tri S Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (32%), Human Services (30%), Religion (15%).

Who are Tri S Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Crowley's Ridge College ($1.1M), Southern Christian Home ($866k), Green Valley Bible Camp Inc ($597k).

Does Tri S Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Tri S Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Tri S Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc, Network for Good.

Where is Tri S Foundation based?

Tri S Foundation is based in AR.

Tri S Foundation

Tri S Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Tri S Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.2M

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$1.0M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

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

02FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k5 grants · $110k
$50k–250k8 grants · $990k
$250k+5 grants · $3.1M

$115,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
ANCHOR POINTE RECOVERY CENTER INC	$100,000
EASTERN EUROPEAN MISSIONS	$100,000
BENTONVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY	$50,000
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION	$35,000
HEART TO HEART OF NWA	$25,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

$4.2M · 18 repeat orgs$479k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterReligionHealthOther

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

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%

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.

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

Comfort Care Ministries Inc

provide christian counseling

Human Services

Horizon Christian Academy Inc

private school

Education

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

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

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

Hillcrest Christian Academy

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

Education

Crawford Christian Academy

Christian day school with pre-k thru 12

Education

Ozarks Christian Academy

Christian school

Education

Still Waters Christian Boarding School

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

Education

Cornerstone College & Seminary

Teaching Bible Students

Education

Crosspointe Biblical Counseling Ctr

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

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fair Haven Children's Home; 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 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. 19 of the 31 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/19

Grantees still filing

14/19

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,464,500Education$1,079,500Human Services$820,250Philanthropy$570,000Housing & Shelter$160,000Arts & Culture$105,500International$52,850

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.

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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, 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home