· Private foundation
William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of WILLIAM THOMAS & MAY PITMAN HENNESSY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k44 grants · $152k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH | $135,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC | $15,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH | $15,500 |
| ARKANSAS TRUE VISION CHLDREN HOMES | $10,500 |
| CANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| RIVERVIEW HOPE CAMPUS | $10,500 |
| NEXT STEP HOMELESS SERVICES | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC | $6,000 |
| UA FORT SMITH FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| COMMUNITY RESCUE MISSION | $5,500 |
| ANTIOCH YOUTH AND FAMILY | $4,500 |
| STEPS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $4,500 |
| FORT SMITH BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS | $4,500 |
| GIRLS INC | $4,500 |
| ABILITIES UNLIMITED | $4,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +39% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- MHMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH3× · 2022–2024 · $304k · revenue +87%
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC8× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +134%
- RHRIVERVIEW HOPE CAMPUS8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- FOFOUNTAIN OF YOUTH ADULT DAY CENTERone grant, 2018 · $3k
- LCLINCOLN CHILDCARE CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -1%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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…
Girls inc. of fort smith is committed to providing a safe environment with educational and recreational programs that encourage girls to take risks and master physical, intellectual, and emotional challenges.
Education of students from three years through eighth grade.
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.
To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.
We provide recreational and developmental programs for children 3-18. we help serve the community by helping kids achieve soccer related goals. to provide traveling soccer programs for children 11-18 in the community. we provide…
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 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 provide support for the fort smith boys & girls club operating needs.
Funding of library projects.
The mission of the community clinic of southwest missouri is to improve the health of people in our community without access to medical, dental, or mental health care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Smith Boys & Girls Clubs and the most unlike its peers is Arkansas Family Alliance F/K/a Whitsonlife Inc. 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
35 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. 35 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 MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW HOPE CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds ABILITIES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREGORY KISTLER TREATMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds BOST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT COMPASSION INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SEBASTIAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS' SHELTER OF FORT SMITH ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC FOR THE RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds WE CARE 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: 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
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 William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy 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.