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William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$349k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
50
Grants FY2024
49
Organizations funded FY2023
10%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$135,000
Organizations funded a year
45 to 51
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$6.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving50$349k12%
FY202349$322k10%
FY202251$342k12%
FY202149$328k8%
FY202045$297k0%
FY201949$292k6%
FY201848$275k6%
FY201746$277kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.5MHuman Services$173kHousing & Shelter$168kYouth Development$143kEducation$124kPhilanthropy$119kArts & Culture$113kCrime & Legal$49kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMercy Health Foundation Fort Smith: $304,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetGood Samaritan Clinic: $110,500 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetRiverview Hope Campus: $44,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCancer Support Foundation: $40,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCommunity Rescue Mission Inc: $30,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetFort Smith Children's Emergency Shelter: $28,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetAbilities Unlimited Inc: $27,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetThe Gregory Kistler Treatment Center Inc: $26,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFort Smith Boys & Girls Clubs: $26,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBost Foundation Inc: $25,700 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetProject Compassion Inc: $25,500 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetCrisis Intervention Center Inc: $24,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCasa of Sebastian County Inc: $24,500 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetBoys Shelter Inc: $24,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGirls' Shelter of Fort Smith: $24,500 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetHeart to Heart Pregnancy Support Center Inc: $24,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetComprehensive Juvenile Services Inc: $22,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFort Smith Museum of History: $22,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetFort Smith Symphony Association: $20,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Arc for the River Valley: $20,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetNational Inventors Hall of Fame Inc: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWe Care Foundation Inc: $19,500 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetUS Marshals Museum Inc: $15,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity School of the Arts: $12,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFort Smith Art Center Inc: $11,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLiteracy Council of Western Arkansas Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetJunior League of Fort Smith Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetFort Smith Heritage Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetLincoln Childcare Center Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFort Smith Public Library: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFort Kids: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Dollywood Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHamilton Center for Child Advocacy: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetArkansas Family Alliance F/K/A Whitsonlife Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSebastian County Humane Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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.

Elizabeth H & Stanley E Evans Charitable FoundationAR51.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Elizabeth H & Stanley E Evans Charitable Foundation · Alline B & Chloe C Davis Charitable Foundation · Walter O Caldwell Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · The Griffin Charitable Organization · Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers · Rosalie Tilles Childrens Home Inc · Maurras Family Charitable Trust · Robert a & Mary Carleton Young Foundation · United Way of Fort Smith Area Inc · The Degen 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.

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About William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation

How much does William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation give?
William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $349,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (59%), Human Services (7%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
Who are William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mercy Health Foundation Fort Smith ($304k), Good Samaritan Clinic ($111k), Riverview Hope Campus ($45k).
Does William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Elizabeth H & Stanley E Evans Charitable Foundation, Alline B & Chloe C Davis Charitable Foundation, Walter O Caldwell Foundation.
Where is William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation based?
William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation is based in AR.

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 73 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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