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United Way of North Central Arkansas at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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United Way of North Central Arkansas

Organized to access on a continuing basis the need for human service programs, to seek solutions to human problems, to assist in the development of new or the expansion or modification of existing human service programs, and foster coop among agencies serving the community.

$34k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$98kPublic Benefit$66kPhilanthropy$66kHuman Services$64kYouth Development$26kCommunity Improvement$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$142k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BATESVILLE SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER$8,400
BATESVILLE HELP AND HOPE$8,000
OZARK FOOTHILLS LITERACY PROJECT$5,500
MISSION OF HOPE$5,000
FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION$5,000
ROTARY CLUB$2,053
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 (FY17–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%American Red Cross: $6k → 16%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER: $22k → 15%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $5k → 15%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$290k · 6 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$290k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+41%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • AI
    ARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $58k · revenue +78%
  • FV
    FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +94%
  • IC
    Independence County 4H Foundation
    2× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +8% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • CS
    COMMUNITY SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +41%
  • AS
    ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +15%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +46%
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
Restoration of Hope Inc

Provide tempory shelter to women and children in abusive domestic situations in arkansas county, ar

Human Services
2
Adams County Food Pantry
Food & Nutrition
3
House of Hope Rescue Mission

The house of hope rescue mission is a "day shelter" for the homeless and needy, providing food, clothing, shelter, and general services to the homeless and needy persons in around springdale, arkansas.

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4
Second Street Pantry Missions Inc

The mission of Second Street Pantry Missions is to help make a difference in the lives of those experiencing situational or generational poverty by providing food personal care goods financial assistance and education.

Food & Nutrition
5
Women's Crisis Center

Battered women's shelter

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6
Ozarks Center of Hope

Benevolence Help with payment of bills to prevent homelessness

Human Services
7
Pratt County Foodbank Inc

County food bank to assist with food needs of limited income families

Food & Nutrition
8
Arkansas Cash for Kindness

To provide assistance to those in need living in the community.

Philanthropy
9
Jacobs Place Homeless Mission

House and empower homeless families in white county ar.

Housing & Shelter
10
Ozark Action Inc

To coordinate and provide services for people with needs so they can improve their quality of life.

Human Services
11
Conway County Care Center

Provide Emergency services, services include food, clothing, utility payment assistance, rental assistance, school supplies, infant care and medical assistance for 10442 individuals

Human Services
12
Northwest Arkansas Food Bank

To nourish northwest arkansas communities by feeding hungry people through partnerships with other hunger relief organizations.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Ozark Foothills Literacy Project. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INDEPENDENCE CO: $66,124 · OtherINDEPENDENCE COBATESVILLE HELP & HOPE INC: $65,600 · OtherBATESVILLE HELP & HOPE INCBATESVILLE SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER: $8,400 · OtherBATESVILLE SENIOR CITIZEN CENTERARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $8,000 · OtherWHITE RIVER PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DISTR: $6,000 · Other+1 more: $2,053 · OtherARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $58,167 · EducationARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARYOZARK FOOTHILLS LITERACY PROJECT: $19,100 · EducationOZARK FOOTHILLS LITERACY PROJE…COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $13,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY SCHOOL INCFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC: $55,400 · Human ServicesFAMILY VIOLENCE PREV…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,300 · Human ServicesAmerican National Re…Independence County 4H Foundation: $25,850 · Youth DevelopmentMISSION OF HOPE: $5,000 · Religion
Other$156,177Education$90,267Human Services$61,700Youth Development$25,850Religion$5,000

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 budgetBATESVILLE HELP & HOPE INC: $65,600 over 3y, 76% of budgetARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $58,167 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC: $55,400 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetIndependence County 4H Foundation: $25,850 over 2y, 28% of budgetOZARK FOOTHILLS LITERACY PROJECT: $19,100 over 3y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE RIVER PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DISTR: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION OF HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

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 Fo…Amazonsmile Foundation
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · 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 United Way of North Central Arkansas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of North Central Arkansas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to United Way of North Central Arkansas?

    Find your warmest path to United Way of North Central Arkansas 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 13 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 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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