· Private foundation
Tyson Family Foundation Inc
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 $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $753k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,275,292 |
| CACHE | $568,822 |
| CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $358,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER | $177,390 |
| US MARSHALS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC | $175,000 |
| DOWNTOWN SPRINGDALE ALLIANCE | $145,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $80,966 |
| INTERFORM | $75,000 |
| ARKANSAS CINEMA SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION | $40,000 |
| NORTHWEST ARKANSAS EQUALITY INC | $40,000 |
| MUSIC MOVES LTD | $35,000 |
| UALR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SPRINGDALE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k 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
- CBCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +79%
- RFRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $1.7M · revenue +115%
- NANORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +6%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWSone grant, 2023 · $2.0M
- ACARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.5M · revenue +50%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLEone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
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.
To produce a diverse body of theatrical work of the highest artistic standards. with a focus on dramatic storytelling that illuminates the human journey, the theatre entertains, engages and challenges local and regional audiences of all…
To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
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…
The purpose of the arkansas humanities council is to promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the humanities in arkansas. to achieve its purpose, the council awards grants through a competitive application process to nonprofit…
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
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.
To raise funds through fundraisers and memberships to help support the upkeep and refurbishment of the arkansas governor's mansion
Provide african american awareness on arkansans who have made important contributions to society
To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education
Arkansas farm bureau foundation (the "foundation") is organized for charitable and educational purposes to further the understanding of agricultural and rural issues, and to support the agricultural and rural community through financial…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holidaze Pop-Up Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 80 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
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.
- Who funds JOHNNY MORRIS' WONDERS OF WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN SPRINGDALE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUSE BOX AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Arkansas Athletes Outreach ↗
- Who funds THE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THEATRE SQUARED INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORGE NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds MUSIC MOVES LTD ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Arkansas Equality Inc ↗
- Who funds FOLK SCHOOL OF FAYETTEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Wal-Mart Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Inc · The Schmieding Foundation · Alice L Walton Foundation · Excellerate Foundation Charitable Support · Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange Inc · Rebsamen Fund · Mid-America Arts Alliance · Impactassetsinc
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 Tyson Family Foundation Inc 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.
- The Walden Woods Project — 6% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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