Grantmakers

Charities and Community Foundations That Give Grants in Arkansas

These 26 organizations are not private foundations. They are charities based in Arkansas that give grants to other nonprofits and report them on Form 990 Schedule I -- community foundations, United Ways and federated funds, hospital and university foundations, and operating charities that regrant. Each gave to at least 20 organizations we could identify and filed a return covering 2023 or later.

26grantmaking charities
$515.5Mgranted between them
2,335funding relationships mapped

Ordered by number of organizations funded, not by dollars. Funding more organizations means more turnover in who gets a grant each year, which is a reasonable proxy for how often a list like this one changes -- it is not a signal that any specific grantmaker is open to a new, unsolicited applicant.

OrganizationBased inMedian grantOrganizationsTotal granted
Arkansas Community Foundation IncLittle Rock$15,074837$183.3M
Pure IncBentonville$36,273185$110.4M
Winrock International Institute forLittle Rock$31,970132$14.0M
Harvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank IncTexarkana$48,252115$36.0M
Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance IncLittle Rock$13,000106$3.5M
The Methodist Foundation for ArkansasLittle Rock$18,338100$5.6M
Arkansas FoodbankLittle Rock$7,06081$1.1M
Southern Bancorp Capital PartnersLittle Rock$13,41674$3.2M
Arkansas Humanities CouncilLittle Rock$11,79268$1.3M
Arkansas Pharmacists AssociationLittle Rock$39,79860$2.9M
Arkansas Children's HospitalLittle Rock$14,68059$68.2M
Heart of Arkansas United WayLittle Rock$14,08659$2.8M
Excellerate Foundation CharitableRogers$42,20052$15.6M
Arkansas Hospital Association IncLittle Rock$22,00049$1.9M
Bill Hillary & Chelsea ClintonLittle Rock$15,00042$6.1M
Arkansas STEM CoalitionLittle Rock$9,93440$604K
Environmental and SpatialLittle Rock$44,42033$2.9M
Baptist HealthLittle Rock$10,00030$941K
Arkansas Coalition Against DomesticLittle Rock$75,21029$6.6M
Excellerate FoundationRogers$25,00028$770K
Delta Dental Plan of Arkansas IncSherwood$12,50028$6.8M
Ozark Outdoor FoundationBentonville$18,28928$1.8M
Communities Unlimited IncFayetteville$19,98227$1.2M
Arkansas Farm Bureau FoundationLittle Rock$10,00027$1.2M
Arkansas Public School Resource CenterLittle Rock$326,11025$35.9M
Riggs Employee's FundLittle Rock$8,70021$673K
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.

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