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University of Arkansas Foundation Inc

Provide support for the university of arkansas system.

$135M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$79M
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 2025.

Education$640MHealth$181MFood & Nutrition$15M
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $492k
  • $250k+9 grants · $135M
$1,978,853
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE$78,790,187
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES$26,857,065
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK$12,224,757
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM$8,554,281
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT MONTICELLO$3,274,444
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF$1,978,853
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE$1,916,662
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PULASKI TECHNICAL COLLEGE$522,230
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE AT MORRILTON$412,453
PHILLIPS COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$237,573
COSSATOT COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$147,672
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE AT BATESVILLE$106,701
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 16%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $86.7M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM: $8.6M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF: $2.4M → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $80.2M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM: $5.7M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF: $2.0M → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $78.8M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM: $5.4M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF: $1.7M → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $57.3M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM: $5.1M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF: $1.5M → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $41.6M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM: $5.0M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $38.1M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM: $5.0M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $37.7M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM: $3.4M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $37.3M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM: $2.6M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $32.5M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM: $2.6M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES: $29.2M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES: $26.9M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES: $20.0M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES: $17.5M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES: $16.1M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES: $14.8M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES: $12.1M → 17%UAMS WINTHROP P ROCKEFELLER CANCER INSTITUTE: $11.3M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES: $9.3M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES: $9.1M → 17%UAMS WINTHROP P ROCKEFELLER CANCER INSTITUTE: $8.7M → 17%UAMS WINTHROP P ROCKEFELLER CANCER INSTITUTE: $5.5M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: $13.2M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: $12.2M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: $9.3M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: $7.6M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: $7.4M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: $6.3M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: $6.1M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: $5.5M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: $5.3M → 17%DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE: $2.0M → 17%DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE: $2.0M → 17%DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE: $1.9M → 17%DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE: $1.8M → 17%DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE: $1.7M → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$836M · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
0

Total granted

$836M
$0

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $548M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $181M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $73M

Funded once

    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
    04the grantee network

    1 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. 1 of the 10 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    0/1
    Grantees still filing
    0/1
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $548,433,062 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLEUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES: $180,626,202 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCESUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: $72,949,765 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK+7 more: $33,903,362 · Other
    Other$835,912,391

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

    25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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 COSSATOT COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

    Arkansas Community Fo…
    Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

    2020
    ’20
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      typical government reliance, FY20–20
      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 University of Arkansas Foundation Inc?

      Find your warmest path to University of Arkansas 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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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