· Private foundation
Walter O Caldwell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $293k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community School for the Arts | $160,000 |
| UAFS Foundation (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith) | $75,000 |
| Arkansas Colleges of Health Education | $50,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkoma Inc | $39,600 |
| River Valley Regional Foodbank | $25,000 |
| Antioch Youth Center | $25,000 |
| Community Services Clearinghouse Inc | $25,000 |
| First Choice Pregnancy Medical Center | $23,600 |
| Christmas Honors | $20,000 |
| Fort Smith Public Library Foundation | $19,000 |
| Fort Smith Symphony | $15,500 |
| Next Step Homeless Services | $15,000 |
| Good Samaritan Clinic | $15,000 |
| UAMS Foundation Fort Smith (AHEC) | $10,000 |
| American Red Cross | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC7× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +187%
- FSFORT SMITH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION7× · 2019–2025 · $99k · revenue +41%
- FSFORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY7× · 2019–2025 · $94k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +17%
- MSMAIN STREET FORT SMITHone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -83%
- MMMercy Medical Foundation CME Programone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
To support the activities of the fort smith children's emergency shelter, inc. through education and philanthropic activities.
To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.
Our mission is to provide non-lethal solutions to the homeless, abandoned, and feral animal population of fort smith, arkansas. we will do this through re-unifying animals with their owners, adopting animals to new families, or…
From conception to birth and beyond, we uphold the sanctity of human life; sharing the gospel of jesus christ, offering knowledge, medical services and support.
The northwest arkansas women's shelter is committed to serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowering them to build lives free of violence.
To enhance the quality of education in the fort smith public schools by providing the necessary funds for programs not otherwise funded by the fort smith public school district.
The fort smith art center is established to foster art appreciation in the community through diverse exhibitions, educational programming, dynamic events, and cultural partnerships.
To provide care for needy children and young adults.
Battered women's shelter
To provide support for the fort smith boys & girls club operating needs.
To provide assistance to victims of domestic abuse and to educate the community to work toward the prevention of family violence.
The Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History was established to help further the mission of the Division of Arkansas Heritage; to identify Arkansass Heritage and enhance the quality of life by the discovery,preservation and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arkansas Colleges of Health Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 73 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 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COLLEGES OF HEALTH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES CLEARINGHOUSE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkoma Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CALL ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS HONORS ↗
- Who funds FORT KIDS ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET FORT SMITH ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds THE GREGORY KISTLER TREATMENT CENTER 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: William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Elizabeth H & Stanley E Evans Charitable Foundation · Alline B & Chloe C Davis Charitable Foundation · Rosalie Tilles Childrens Home Inc · The Degen Foundation · United Way of Fort Smith Area Inc · The Griffin Charitable Organization · Cadence Bank Foundation · Maurras Family Charitable Trust · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Walter O Caldwell Foundation 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.