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Clarence E Anthony Charitable Trust

Little Rock, AR · EIN 71-6102641. Reported 68 grants totalling $301,655 to 40 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$301,655granted, 2021-2025
40recipients, as named on its returns
47%of grantees funded again the next year
$17,062assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Clarence E Anthony Charitable Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $6,655; the smallest was $500 and the largest $11,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
2 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
29 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
29 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
CarelinkNorth Little Rock, AR$34,000552025
Ar Hunger Relief AllianceLittle Rock, AR$25,000332023
Ua Little Rock Public RadioLittle Rock, AR$24,655332025
Humane Society of Pulaski CountyLittle Rock, AR$20,000442024
Our HouseLittle Rock, AR$15,000222022
The Authentic SelfLittle Rock, AR$15,000222025
Arkansas Museum of Fine ArtsLittle Rock, AR$12,500222024
Krewe of Mid-City Mutt MamasNew Orleans, LA$11,500442025
Arkansas Tv FoundationConway, AR$10,000112025
Central Ar Library SystemLittle Rock, AR$10,000222025
Depaul USAChicago, IL$10,000222024
Dept of Art & Design - ScholarshipLittle Rock, AR$10,000112021
Women's Foundation ArkansasLittle Rock, AR$10,000222025
Ar Comm Natl Museum of Women in ArtRogers, AR$9,500222024
Potluck Food RescueNorth Little Rock, AR$7,500112023
Providence ParkNorth Little Rock, AR$7,500112025
Youth HomeLittle Rock, AR$7,000442024
Klre & KuarLittle Rock, AR$6,750112023
Depaul USALittle Rock, AR$5,000112021
Dorcas HouseLittle Rock, AR$5,000112021
Museum of DiscoveryLittle Rock, AR$5,000112024
Restore Hope ArkansasLittle Rock, AR$5,000112021
Women's FoundationLittle Rock, AR$5,000112023
Teach for AmericaOxford, MS$3,500222022
Arkansas FoodbankLittle Rock, AR$3,000112025
Audubon ArkansasLittle Rock, AR$3,000222022
Soma 501Little Rock, AR$3,000332025
Old State House MuseumLittle Rock, AR$2,500112022
Tree StreetsLittle Rock, AR$2,500112023
Mosaic TemplarsLittle Rock, AR$2,000112022
Natl Museum of Women in the ArtsWashington, DC$2,000112024
Little Rock Chapter of Links FndtnLittle Rock, AR$1,500112023
Alternative Newsweekly FoundationMemphis, TN$1,000112023
Arkansas Cornbread FestivalLittle Rock, AR$1,000112023
Audubon DeltaLittle Rock, AR$1,000112024
Care for AnimalsLittle Rock, AR$1,000112022
Center for Cultural CommunityLittle Rock, AR$1,000112021
Girl Scouts Diamonds of Ar Ok & TxLittle Rock, AR$1,000112022
Quapaw Quarter AssociationLittle Rock, AR$1,000112023
Macarthur Museum of ArkansasLittle Rock, AR$750112022

16 of 40 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 47%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 28 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Animal Welfare
8 grants
Food & Nutrition
4 grants
Mental Health
4 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
3 grants
Environment
2 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
2 grants
Education
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202114$61,500$5,000
202212$43,250$2,500
202317$76,250$5,000
202415$66,155$5,000
202510$54,500$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

91% of its giving went to organizations in Arkansas. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Arkansas
$274K
Louisiana
$12K
Illinois
$10K
Mississippi
$4K
District of Columbia
$2K
Tennessee
$1K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsArkansas Community Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsRiggs Benevolent Fund6 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsRoy and Christine Sturgis Charitable and6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Arkansas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Clarence E Anthony Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 1716 North Spruce, Little Rock, AR, 72207. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 71-6102641 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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