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Tyson Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$17MEducation$15MAnimals$6.0MHealth$5.8MCommunity Improvement$2.2MRecreation & Sports$2.2MPublic Benefit$2.0MInternational$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $753k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$50,000
ARKANSAS CINEMA SOCIETY$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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%HOLIDAZE POP-UP INC: $3k → 16%THE CHICK MISSION INC: $30k → 17%DRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS: $8k → 8%PURE INC DBA PURE CHARITY INC: $53k → 8%ARKANSAS COALITION OF MARSHALLESE INC: $15k → 14%ARKANSAS UNITED: $10k → 14%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

MN
NY
MA
PA
MO
VA
AR
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46M · 42 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
29

Total granted

$46M
$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

60%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CB
    Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +79%
  • RF
    RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1.7M · revenue +115%
  • NA
    NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M
  • AC
    ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.5M · revenue +50%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
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
Arkansas Repertory Theatre

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Foundation of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history

Arts & Culture
3
Opportunity Arkansas Foundation

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

Philanthropy
4
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
5
Arkansas Humanities Council

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…

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6
Arkansas Pharmacy Foundation

Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.

Health
7
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
8
Arkansans for Education Reform Foundation
Education
9
Arkansas Governor's Mansion Association

To raise funds through fundraisers and memberships to help support the upkeep and refurbishment of the arkansas governor's mansion

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10
Arkansas Black Hall of Fame Foundat

Provide african american awareness on arkansans who have made important contributions to society

Arts & Culture
11
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc

To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education

Health
12
Arkansas Farm Bureau Foundation

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…

Food & Nutrition
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 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
24/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS TO COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $7,302,698 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP GRANTS TO COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIESIndividual grant recipient: $4,078,292 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCACHE: $2,171,420 · OtherCACHEUNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS: $2,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWSCity of Springdale: $1,704,000 · OtherCity of SpringdalePOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $1,305,572 · OtherPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONALDON TYSON SCHOOL OF INNOVATION: $1,005,101 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $1,000,000 · Other+35 more: $2,686,553 · Other+35 moreJOHNNY MORRIS' WONDERS OF WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000,000 · Arts & CultureJOHNNY MORRIS' WONDERS OF WILDLIFE FOUNDA…Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $7,340,225 · Arts & CultureCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art In…ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION+13 more: $1,443,721 · Arts & Culture+13 moreMAYO CLINIC: $3,000,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,510,950 · HealthARKANSAS CH…ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 · HealthARKANSAS CH…+1 more: $75,000 · HealthRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC: $1,700,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $500,001 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $360,000 · Education+1 more: $65,000 · EducationNORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $1,377,896 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN SPRINGDALE ALLIANCE: $649,736 · Community ImprovementENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION: $75,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $532,170 · Human ServicesPURE INC: $52,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHICK MISSION INC: $30,000 · Human Services+4 more: $35,486 · Human ServicesARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $454,632 · Philanthropy
Other$23,253,636Arts & Culture$20,283,946Health$5,635,950Education$2,625,001Community Improvement$2,212,632Human Services$650,156Philanthropy$454,632

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNNY MORRIS' WONDERS OF WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $7,340,225 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $3,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC: $1,700,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,510,950 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $1,377,896 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $1,305,572 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDOWNTOWN SPRINGDALE ALLIANCE: $649,736 over 5y, 25% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $532,170 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $500,001 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $454,632 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFUSE BOX AUSTIN: $370,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $360,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetArkansas Athletes Outreach: $350,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT: $300,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTHEATRE SQUARED INC: $250,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHE FORGE NASHVILLE: $123,591 over 2y, 32% of budgetMUSIC MOVES LTD: $105,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetFoundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNorthwest Arkansas Equality Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetFOLK SCHOOL OF FAYETTEVILLE INC: $80,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetARKANSAS PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE COALITION: $75,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSpringdale Public Schools Education Foundation: $65,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER: $56,250 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPURE INC: $52,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARKANSAS CINEMA SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTS ONE PRESENTS INC: $42,630 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetTHE CHICK MISSION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe House of Songs: $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSOAR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM: $22,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetArkansas Coalition of Marshallese I: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Music Education Initiative: $12,500 over 2y, 6.0% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF GREATER LITTLE ROC: $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetArkansas United: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS: $7,736 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NW ARKANSAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENTONVILLE BELLA VISTA TRAILBLAZERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRENDSETTERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAPPLE SEEDS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds JOHNNY MORRIS' WONDERS OF WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Wal-Mart FoundationArkansas Community Fo…Walton Family Foundat…Arvest FoundationWillard & Pat Walker …The Schmieding Founda…Alice L Walton Founda…Excellerate Foundatio…Creative Arkansas Com…Rebsamen FundMid-America Arts Alli…Impactassetsinc
Wal-Mart FoundationAR55.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Walden Woods Project: 6% of income from government
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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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Find your warmest path to Tyson Family Foundation Inc 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 80 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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