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Whitaker Family Foundation at a glance

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Whitaker Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.0M
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.

Health$3.9MRecreation & Sports$2.2MReligion$1.0MHuman Services$795kYouth Development$155kCrime & Legal$90kHousing & Shelter$61kAnimals$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $560k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$50,192
Median grant
5
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 19%HOME FOR DINNER: $36k → 8%NWA CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $75k → 8%NWA CHILDRENS SHELTER: $75k → 8%NWA CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $75k → 8%NWA CHILDRENS SHELTER: $75k → 8%NWA CHILDRENS SHELTER: $75k → 8%NWA CHILDRENS SHELTER: $25k → 8%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 24% of Whitaker Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in AR; by stated purpose, 84%.

Whitaker Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.4M · 17 repeat orgs$649k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
11

Total granted

$7.4M
$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+7%

Still filing today

59%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • RF
    RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $600k · revenue +67%
  • NA
    NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $400k · revenue +76%
  • AB
    ARKANSAS BAPTIST ASSEMBLY INC D/B/A CAMP SILOAM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $325k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TEEN ACTION & SUPPORT CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -51%
  • CM
    COMPASSION MINISTRIES COMPASSION HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $46k
  • RF
    RETRIEVING FREEDOM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue +7%
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
Casa of North Arkansas

The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights
2
Arkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc

The organization provides a therapeutic shelter and care for homeless and/or abused children.

Housing & Shelter
3
Arkansas Hospice Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Disability Rights Arkansas Inc

To vigorously advocate for and enforce the legal rights of people with disabilities in arkansas.

Civil Rights
5
The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
6
Foundation of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history

Arts & Culture
7
Arkansas Hospice Foundation Inc

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…

Health
8
Arkansas Baptist Children's Home & Family Ministries

We build, strengthen and restore arkansas families for god's glory.

Human Services
9
Easterseals Arkansas

To provide exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities have equal opportunities to live, learn, work, and play in their communities.

Health
10
Christian Community Care Clinic

To provide medical care to the uninsured.

Health
11
Habitat for Humanity Pope County Ar

Seeking to put gods love in action by bringing people together to build homes for those in need

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12
Arkansas Health Care Association

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of Benton County; 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.
05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 34 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL NORTHWEST: $2,026,096 · OtherARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL NORTHWESTARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL NORTHW: $1,001,651 · OtherARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL NORTHWNEW LIFE RANCH INC: $250,000 · OtherNEW LIFE RANCH INCTHE CALL IN CRAWFORD & SEBASTIAN COUNTIES: $211,706 · OtherTHE TEEN ACTION & SUPPORT CENTER: $150,000 · Other+14 more: $456,740 · Other+14 moreArkansas Athletes Outreach: $1,517,631 · ReligionArkansas Athletes OutreachBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC: $444,816 · ReligionBARNABAS FOUNDATION INCARKANSAS BAPTIST ASSEMBLY INC D/B/A CAMP SILOAM: $324,620 · ReligionARKANSAS BAPTIST ASSEMBLY INC D…RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 · EducationCircle of Life: $396,740 · PhilanthropyEXCELLERATE FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC: $400,029 · Human ServicesHOME FOR DINNER INCORPORATED: $36,421 · Human ServicesSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesMAYO CLINIC: $250,000 · HealthDDX3X FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthFISHING FOR THE FIGHT: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY: $90,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$4,096,193Religion$2,287,067Education$600,000Philanthropy$476,740Human Services$466,450Health$292,000Crime & Legal$90,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArkansas Athletes Outreach: $1,517,631 over 5y, 24% of budgetRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC: $444,816 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC: $400,029 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCircle of Life: $396,740 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetARKANSAS BAPTIST ASSEMBLY INC D/B/A CAMP SILOAM: $324,620 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TEEN ACTION & SUPPORT CENTER: $150,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY: $90,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetEXCELLERATE FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRETRIEVING FREEDOM INC: $30,820 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDDX3X FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetHORSES FOR HEALING INC: $26,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFISHING FOR THE FIGHT: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWELCOMEHEALTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDANA'S HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAULKNER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Arvest FoundationWal-Mart FoundationAlice L Walton Founda…Walton Family Foundat…The Schmieding Founda…Raymond James Charita…McKinney C & a Charit…Synchrony FoundationGlass Family Foundati…Four1 FoundationGeorge H Dunklin Jr C…
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR30.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Whitaker Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Whitaker Family Foundation 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 34 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-PF 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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