· Public charity
United Way of Fort Smith Area Inc
To improve lives by uniting people and resources in our six county area.
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
- $10k–50k21 grants · $509k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $863k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT SMITH BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $194,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES CLEARINGHO | $188,500 |
| GIRLS INC | $104,500 |
| LINCOLN CHILDCARE CENTER | $100,000 |
| CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTER | $61,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE DIAMOND HI | $60,000 |
| FORT SMITH BOYS HOME | $52,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VAN BUREN | $52,000 |
| NEXT STEP HOMELESS SERVICES | $50,000 |
| HARBORGATEWAY HOUSE | $43,000 |
| COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC | $40,000 |
| GIRLS SHELTER OF FORT SMITH | $37,512 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH LOG | $34,000 |
| THE ARC FOR THE RIVER VALLEY | $32,800 |
| SEBASTIAN RETIRED CITIZENS ASSOCIAT | $31,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $799k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FSFORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +90%
- CSCOMMUNITY SERVICES CLEARINGHOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +1% · 25% of their budget
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH8× · 2017–2024 · $877k · revenue +14%
Funded once
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.
Promoting the health, social, education, and character development of youth
Recreation youth development
Youth services
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
The boys and girls club of southwest alabama actively works with local youth of all backgrounds to develop the qualities needed to become responsible citizens and future leaders in our community.
To enable our young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their potential.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens
To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Ensure that children have a safe place to go after school.
Providing educational and recreational programs for children.
Boys and girls club promotes physical, mental and moral welfare of boys and girls of central arkansas by providing a means of education, entertainment and physical activities most likely to achieve these goals.
To provide youth activities and education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Smith Boys & Girls Clubs and the most unlike its peers is South Sebastian County Boys & Girls. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 36 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 FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES CLEARINGHOUSE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE INC OF FORT SMITH ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PARIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM ↗
- Who funds GIRLS' SHELTER OF FORT SMITH ↗
- Who funds SEBASTIAN RETIRED CITIZENS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC FOR THE RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 16 WESTARK AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH LOGAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITIES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEFLORE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SEBASTIAN COUNTY BOYS & GIRLS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT COMPASSION 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.
Open a dossier: Alline B & Chloe C Davis Charitable Foundation · Elizabeth H & Stanley E Evans Charitable Foundation · William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation · Walter O Caldwell Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Abb Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Rosalie Tilles Childrens Home Inc · The Degen Foundation · Cadence Bank Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Boys & Girls Clubs of America
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 United Way of Fort Smith Area 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.
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.