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William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation at a glance

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William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$349k
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $152k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
$3,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH$135,000
UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH$15,500
GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC$15,500
ARKANSAS TRUE VISION CHLDREN HOMES$10,500
RIVERVIEW HOPE CAMPUS$10,500
CANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION$10,500
NEXT STEP HOMELESS SERVICES$7,500
COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC$6,000
UA FORT SMITH FOUNDATION$5,500
COMMUNITY RESCUE MISSION$5,500
ABILITIES UNLIMITED$4,500
Individual grant recipient$4,500
GIRLS INC$4,500
FORT SMITH BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS$4,500
CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER$4,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BOST FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 17%BOST FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%BOST FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%BOST FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%BOST FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%BOST FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%BOST FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%BOST FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER: $5k → 17%CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER: $4k → 17%CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER: $4k → 17%CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER: $4k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE SERVICES INC: $4k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE SERVICES INC: $3k → 17%CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER: $3k → 17%CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER: $3k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE SERVICES INC: $3k → 17%CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER: $3k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE SERVICES INC: $3k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE SERVICES INC: $3k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE SERVICES INC: $3k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE SERVICES INC: $3k → 17%CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER: $3k → 17%LINCOLN CHILDCARE CENTER: $3k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE SERVICES INC: $1k → 17%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 59 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
8

Total granted

$2.5M
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+28%

Still filing today

47%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MH
    MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH
    3× · 2022–2024 · $304k · revenue +87%
  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +69%
  • RH
    RIVERVIEW HOPE CAMPUS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH ADULT DAY CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • LC
    LINCOLN CHILDCARE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -1%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
Fort Smith Children's Emergency Shelter Foundation Inc

To support the activities of the fort smith children's emergency shelter, inc. through education and philanthropic activities.

Human Services
2
Kitties & Kanines Shelter

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…

Animals
3
Girls Incorporated of Fort Smith

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.

Youth Development
4
Fort Smith Montessori School Inc

Education of students from three years through eighth grade.

Education
5
Fort Smith Christian Family Servicesinc

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.

Human Services
6
Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter in Dba Everhope Arkansas Inc

To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.

Human Services
7
Fort Smith Soccer Association

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…

Recreation & Sports
8
Fort Smith Public Schools Found Inc

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.

Philanthropy
9
Northwest Arkansas Women's Shelter

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.

Human Services
10
Fort Smith Boys Club Charitable Foundation Trust

To provide support for the fort smith boys & girls club operating needs.

Youth Development
11
Fort Smith Public Library Endowment Trust

Funding of library projects.

Philanthropy
12
Community Clinic of Southwest Missouri

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Smith Boys & Girls Clubs; 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.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY FOUNDATION: $693,500 · OtherMERCY FOUNDATIONMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH: $304,000 · OtherMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITHUNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH: $118,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF FORT SMITHUAMS - AHEC: $70,000 · Other+49 more: $796,200 · Other+49 moreGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC: $110,500 · HealthTHE GREGORY KISTLER TREATMENT CENTER INC: $26,500 · HealthPROJECT COMPASSION INC: $25,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $30,500 · Human ServicesFORT SMITH CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER: $28,500 · Human ServicesBOST FOUNDATION INC: $25,700 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE SERVICES INC: $22,500 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesFORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY: $22,500 · Arts & CultureFORT SMITH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $20,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureUS MARSHALS MUSEUM INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $12,500 · Arts & CultureFORT SMITH ART CENTER INC: $11,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureFORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS: $26,000 · Youth DevelopmentWE CARE FOUNDATION INC: $19,500 · Youth DevelopmentRIVERVIEW HOPE CAMPUS: $44,500 · Housing & ShelterBOYS SHELTER INC: $24,500 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT SMITH INC: $6,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,982,200Health$162,500Human Services$110,200Arts & Culture$105,000Youth Development$45,500Housing & Shelter$44,500Community Improvement$30,500

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

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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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…Alline B & Chloe C Da…Walter O Caldwell Fou…Arvest FoundationArkansas Community Fo…The Griffin Charitabl…Doss T Sutton Charita…Rosalie Tilles Childr…Maurras Family Charit…Robert a & Mary Carle…United Way of Fort Sm…The Degen Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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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