Arkansas Community Foundation
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About Arkansas Community Foundation
Arkansas Community Foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.
Focus Areas
early literacyfood securityarts support (Arts in Arkansas Fund)education and scholarshipsdisaster and emergency reliefcommunity development / local needs
Who They Fund
rural high school studentssingle‑parent college students / adult learnersteacher candidates / university education programspatients and families using hospital support serviceslocal community residents (access to parks, trails, cultural venues)arts participants and audiences
About Arkansas Community Foundation
Arkansas Community Foundation Inc has used donor-advised and competitive grantmaking to support Arkansas organizations at a wide range of levels, from multimillion-dollar operating awards to smaller arts grants. A clear pattern in the recent grants list is sustained support for education and community infrastructure: Thaden School received repeated general operating support across 2023, 2024, and 2025, while Bentonville Bella Vista Trailblazers Association Inc received several large awards tied to trail and tunnel construction. The foundation also backed county- and state-level needs through operating support for Heartland Forward Inc and Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund, showing a mix of unrestricted funding and project-specific grants. Its giving reaches schools, scholarship funds, arts organizations, health-related institutions, and local infrastructure groups. Recent awards include support for Opera in the Ozarks’ new opera theater building and faculty housing, and for Arisa Health Inc’s new Rogers campus. Those grants sit alongside recurring support for institutions that work in education, family support, and community development. The result is a grantmaking profile that combines long-term relationships with targeted capital and operating investments across Arkansas.
What Arkansas Community Foundation Funds
Education appears in several forms. Arkansas Community Foundation Inc gave $862,400 to Heartland Forward Inc to establish the Rooted Arkansas pilot, which places college and career advisors in rural high schools and prepares the advisor network to use data-driven methods. It also gave $1,372,038 in 2023 and $1,134,138 in 2025 to Forward Arkansas for Phase 2 of the Educator Preparation Program at the University of Arkansas Little Rock and Southern Arkansas University. In scholarship support, the foundation awarded $1,810,146 in 2025 to Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund for general operating support, after a $1,491,204 award in 2024. Arts and culture also show up clearly. Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colonyopera in the Ozarks received $4,000,000 in 2025 and $1,729,059 in the same year to support construction of a new opera theater building, faculty housing units, and supporting infrastructure on the campus of Opera in the Ozarks.
How Arkansas Community Foundation Gives
Typical grant size sits at $10,000 at the 25th percentile, $15,000 at the median, and $33,937 at the 75th percentile, even as the recent grants list includes several much larger awards for operating support and capital projects. The pattern is not one-off: recipients such as Thaden School, Heartland Forward Inc, Forward Arkansas, and Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund appear across multiple years, suggesting sustained relationships. The foundation is a public charity and a mixed community foundation. It also makes program-related investments. Grants can be unsolicited in several active programs, including Giving Tree Grants, Scholarship Programs, Access to Local Foods Grants, Early Literacy Grants, and Arts in Arkansas Fund.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$58.7M
Total Assets
$895.9M
Total Revenue
$159.4M
Total Expenses
$74M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $34K, with a median of $15K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$15K
75th Percentile
$34K
Geographic Reach
Local32 states funded
About 82% of grants go to recipients in AR.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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