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United Way of Northeast Arkansas

Provide funding for tax exempt organizations.

$345k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Food & Nutrition$555kHuman Services$441kCrime & Legal$323kYouth Development$268kPublic Safety & Disaster$211kEducation$193kHousing & Shelter$113kReligion$108kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $262,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $345,229 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,329 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $246k
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS$45,000
FAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF NEA$43,000
CASA$23,000
HCSI$22,000
HELPING NEIGHBORS FOOD PANTRY$21,000
JONESBORO CHURCH HEALTH CENTER$18,000
THE LEARNING CENTER$13,400
LEGAL AID OF ARKANSAS$11,000
MISSION OUTREACH OF NEA$10,000
NEW LIFE EMPOWERMENT MINISTRY$10,000
SURE FOUNDATION$10,000
CITY YOUTH MINISTRIES$10,000
CHERRY VALLEY BAPTIST FOOD PANTRY$10,000
AR SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND$9,500
HOPE FOUND OF NEA$7,000
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 (FY17–24, $925k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%MISSION OUTREACH OF NEA: $20k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $40k → 22%MISSION OUTREACH OF NEA: $11k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $40k → 22%MISSION OUTREACH OF NEA: $10k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $40k → 22%MISSION OUTREACH OF NEA: $9k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $40k → 22%MISSION OUTREACH OF NEA: $7k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $27k → 22%MISSION OUTREACH OF NEA: $7k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $23k → 22%MISSION OUTREACH OF NEA: $7k → 16%MISSION OUTREACH OF NEA: $6k → 16%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $68k → 17%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $68k → 17%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $56k → 17%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $55k → 17%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $50k → 17%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $47k → 17%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $45k → 17%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $42k → 17%HCSI: $28k → 17%HCSI: $25k → 17%HCSI: $25k → 17%HCSI: $24k → 17%HCSI: $23k → 17%HCSI: $22k → 17%HCSI: $21k → 17%HCSI: $21k → 17%HOPE FOUND OF NEA: $10k → 17%HOPE FOUND OF NEA: $7k → 17%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 21 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
5

Total granted

$2.2M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+11%

Still filing today

76%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsEducationOther
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

  • TF
    THE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $430k · revenue +43%
  • FC
    FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $328k · revenue +124%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2017–2022 · $211k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • BB
    BREAKING BONDS MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +19%
  • KA
    K-12 ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION OF ARTS OF NEA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +11%
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
Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter in Dba Everhope Arkansas Inc

To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.

Human Services
2
The Haven of Northeast Arkansas Inc

To provide shelter, counseling and other assistance to victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
3
Northwest Arkansas Food Bank

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

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4
The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc

Provide nutrition, assistance and hope to every person seeking support through its ministry. families served-9,016; recipients-36,065; new families-2,556

Human Services
5
Northeast Arkansas Humane Society Inc

Education of the public regarding proper animal care. housing and adoption arrangements for thousands of neglected or abused animals. education of the public regarding the need to spay and neuter pets. provide low cost spay and neuter…

Animals
6
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
7
Arkansas Family Alliance F/K/a Whitsonlife Inc

Ministry for child welfare and families in crisis.

Religion
8
The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
9
Northwest Arkansas Family Child Care Association Inc

To promote quality child care in family day care homes, provide planned programs, workshops, and other activities to increase the knowledge, abilities and self-respect of care givers.

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10
Food Bank of North Central Arkansas

Food bank that distributes food supplies to families in need in nine counties.

Food & Nutrition
11
Searcy Childrens Home Inc Sparrows Promise

Providing hope for children and families in the arkansas child welfare system provide foster care, supervised visitation services, a safe space for children to rest while waiting on a foster family and training for foster families.

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12
Gods Pantry

Provide food and clothing for the needy

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Arkansas Regional Aids Network Dba Arkansas Supportive Svc; the most unlike its peers is The Childrens Shelter. 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

23 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. 23 of the 28 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $430,020 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSASFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC: $327,874 · Human ServicesFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $210,682 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Bran…HISPANIC COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $189,947 · Human ServicesHISPANIC COMMUNITY SERVICES INCMISSION OUTREACH OF PARAGOULD INC: $77,337 · Human ServicesMISSION OUTREACH OF PARAGOULD INC+2 more: $36,000 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE EMPOWERMENT DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC: $75,821 · OtherNEW LIFE EMPOWER…THE CHILDRENS SHELTER: $42,946 · OtherTHE CHILDRENS SH…ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $36,684 · OtherARKANSAS SINGLE …RECLAMATION HOUSE: $28,500 · OtherRECLAMATION HOUS…NORTHEAST ARKANSAS REGIONAL AIDS NETWORK DBA ARKANSAS SUPPORTIVE SVC: $21,666 · OtherNORTHEAST ARKANS…JONESBORO CHURCH HEALTH CENTER: $18,000 · OtherJONESBORO CHURCH…BREAKING BONDS MINISTRIES: $16,960 · OtherK-12 ACADEMY: $12,500 · OtherJonesboro Church Health Center Inc: $36,000 · OtherJonesboro Church…BREAKING BONDS MINISTRIES: $15,000 · Other+3 more: $26,667 · Other+3 moreCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES CASA OF THE 2ND JUDICIAL DISTRICT AR: $162,538 · Civil RightsLEGAL AID OF ARKANSAS: $96,214 · Crime & LegalNORTHEAST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $64,240 · Crime & LegalTHE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTHEAST AR: $137,221 · EducationHELPING NEIGHBORS FOOD PANTRY: $114,576 · Food & NutritionCHERRY VALLEY FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCITY YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $77,803 · Youth DevelopmentSURE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$1,271,860Other$330,744Civil Rights$162,538Crime & Legal$160,454Education$137,221Food & Nutrition$124,576Youth Development$87,803

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 budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $430,020 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC: $327,874 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $210,682 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $189,947 over 8y, 11% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES CASA OF THE 2ND JUDICIAL DISTRICT AR: $162,538 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetTHE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTHEAST AR: $137,221 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHELPING NEIGHBORS FOOD PANTRY: $114,576 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetLEGAL AID OF ARKANSAS: $96,214 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCITY YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $77,803 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetMISSION OUTREACH OF PARAGOULD INC: $77,337 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetNORTHEAST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $64,240 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SHELTER: $42,946 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $36,684 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetJonesboro Church Health Center Inc: $36,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetRECLAMATION HOUSE: $28,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetHOPE FOUND OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $17,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetBREAKING BONDS MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHERRY VALLEY FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF ARTS OF NEA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSURE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPACES Inc: $6,667 over 1y, 14% 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.

The Food Bank of Nort…Arkansas Community Fo…Arvest FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
The Food Bank of Northeast ArkansasAR22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–60%
    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.

    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 28 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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