Arkansas Children's Hospital
Little Rock, AR · EIN 71-0236857. Reported 122 grants totalling $56.6M to 53 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Arkansas Children's Hospital, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E240) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 49% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 68% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $16,119. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $60,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $20.0M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
13 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $11.1M in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas Childrens Hospital Research Institute | Little Rock, AR | $27.9M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Arkansas Childrens Foundation | Little Rock, AR | $21.0M | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Arkansas Childrens Medical Group Pllc | Little Rock, AR | $3,276,248 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Arkansas Foundation Inc | Fayetteville, AR | $814,725 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Arkansas Foodbank | Little Rock, AR | $574,654 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Childrens Protection Center | Little Rock, AR | $417,675 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Arkansas Childrens Northwest Inc | Little Rock, AR | $306,514 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas | Jonesboro, AR | $161,547 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Apple Seeds Inc | Fayetteville, AR | $160,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| March of Dimes Inc | Arlington, VA | $144,991 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc | Little Rock, AR | $135,100 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Arkansas & North Louisiana Inc | Little Rock, AR | $134,394 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Womens Foundation of Arkansas | Little Rock, AR | $99,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock | Little Rock, AR | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northwest Arkansas Food Bank | Lowell, AR | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Harvest Texarkana | Texarkana, AR | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Arkansas Immunization Action Coalition | Little Rock, AR | $84,680 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pulaski County Special School District | Little Rock, AR | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Philander Smith College | Little Rock, AR | $65,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Our House Inc | Little Rock, AR | $61,007 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| El Zocalo Immigrant Resource Center | Little Rock, AR | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Northwest Arkansas Council Foundation | Springdale, AR | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Crawford Sebastian Community Development Council Inc | Fort Smith, AR | $52,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Foodbank of North Central Arkansas Norfork Community Care Program Inc | Mountain Home, AR | $52,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Ouachita Baptist University | Arkadelphia, AR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Neighbor to Neighbor Inc | Pine Bluff, AR | $41,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $41,220 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (hippy) | Little Rock, AR | $41,121 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation | Little Rock, AR | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Compassion Center of Nwa Inc | Springdale, AR | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Samaritan House Community Center | Rogers, AR | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Topps-Targeting Our Peoples Priorities With Service | Pine Bluff, AR | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Arkansas 4-H Foundation Inc | Little Rock, AR | $36,574 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families | Little Rock, AR | $25,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Women & Children First the Center Against Family Violence | Little Rock, AR | $25,075 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Junior League of Little Rock Inc | Little Rock, AR | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese Inc | Springdale, AR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Helping Neighbors Food Pantry | Jonesboro, AR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St James Missionary Baptist Church | Fayetteville, AR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Great 100 Nurses Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Goodness Village | Little Rock, AR | $16,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | Rye Brook, NY | $12,200 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc | Little Rock, AR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Compassion Ministries Ltd | Springdale, AR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Global Smile Foundation | Westwood, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Brandon Burlsworth Foundation | Harrison, AR | $9,700 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Camp Aldersgate Inc | Little Rock, AR | $9,145 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fetal Heart Society Inc | Roseville, MN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens Advocacy Centers of Arkansas | Little Rock, AR | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pediatric Heart Transplant Society Foundation | Helena, AL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arkansas Zoological Foundation Inc | Little Rock, AR | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| DDX3X Foundation | Wilmington, DE | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
32 of 53 (60%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 48 of 53 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 37 | $9,096,234 | $40,000 |
| 2021 | 31 | $27.6M | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 29 | $9,415,175 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 25 | $10.5M | $17,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in Arkansas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $16,119 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Arkansas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Arkansas Children's Hospital's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 25 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1 Childrens Way, Little Rock, AR, 72202.
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