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Whitaker Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $560k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL NORTHWEST | $1,017,250 |
| NEW LIFE RANCH | $250,000 |
| BARNABAS FOUNDATION | $204,160 |
| CIRCLE OF LIFE | $195,905 |
| THE CALL IN CRAWFORD & SEBASTIAN COUNTIES | $110,000 |
| RIVER VALLEY FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $50,192 |
| COMPASSION MINISTRIES LTD DBA COMPASSION HOUSE | $40,548 |
| HOME FOR DINNER | $36,421 |
| SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC | $25,000 |
| FISHING FOR THE FIGHT | $10,000 |
| DDX3X FOUNDATION | $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 (FY19–25, $466k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 24% of Whitaker Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in AR; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k 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
- RFRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $600k · revenue +67%
- NANORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $400k · revenue +76%
- ABARKANSAS BAPTIST ASSEMBLY INC D/B/A CAMP SILOAM2× · 2023–2024 · $325k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- TTTHE TEEN ACTION & SUPPORT CENTERone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -51%
- CMCOMPASSION MINISTRIES COMPASSION HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $46k
- RFRETRIEVING FREEDOM INCone grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue +7%
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.
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
The organization provides a therapeutic shelter and care for homeless and/or abused children.
To enhance the quality of life for those facing serious illness and loss by surrounding them with love and embracing them with the best in physical, emotional and spiritual care programs and services, and to help donors meet their…
To vigorously advocate for and enforce the legal rights of people with disabilities in arkansas.
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history
Arkansas hospice foundation is a non-profit, charitable 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to raise public awareness and financial support for arkansas hospice and related organization's programs and services, and to help donors meet…
We build, strengthen and restore arkansas families for god's glory.
To provide exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities have equal opportunities to live, learn, work, and play in their communities.
To provide medical care to the uninsured.
Seeking to put gods love in action by bringing people together to build homes for those in need
Arkansas health care association was organized for the following purposes: (a) to maintain high standard of quality care and administration of nursing homes and similar health care facilities, (b) to create greater opportunities for the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of Benton County and the most unlike its peers is Home for Dinner Incorporated. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 34 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 Arkansas Athletes Outreach ↗
- Who funds RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds Circle of Life ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS BAPTIST ASSEMBLY INC D/B/A CAMP SILOAM ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEEN ACTION & SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EXCELLERATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOME FOR DINNER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RETRIEVING FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds DDX3X FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HORSES FOR HEALING INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FISHING FOR THE FIGHT ↗
- Who funds DANA'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELCOMEHEALTH ↗
- Who funds FAULKNER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation 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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Wal-Mart Foundation · Alice L Walton Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Schmieding Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · McKinney C & a Charitable Trust · Synchrony Foundation · Glass Family Foundation · Four1 Foundation · George H Dunklin Jr Charitable Foundation
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 Whitaker Family 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.
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