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Sally & Keith Riggs Foundation

Little Rock, AR · EIN 87-3893692. Reported 74 grants totalling $113,750 to 41 recipients across tax years 2022-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$113,750granted, 2022-2025
41recipients, as named on its returns
58%of grantees funded again the next year
$721,107assets, 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. Sally & Keith Riggs Foundation 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 $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $2,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
27 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
43 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant

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
St James United MethodistLittle Rock, AR$34,000442025
Ar Kids ReadLittle Rock, AR$11,700442025
Ronald Mcdonald HouseLittle Rock, AR$6,000442025
Go Near MinistryFayetteville, AR$5,500442025
Ar Assemblies of GodLittle Rock, AR$4,800222023
Assemblies of GodFort Smith, AR$4,800222025
Goodness VillageLittle Rock, AR$4,500442025
James 127 FoundationLittle Rock, AR$3,000112022
Jesse Hunt Courage Trc IncPrairie Grove, AR$3,000222023
Alheimer's ArLittle Rock, AR$2,500332025
Kiwanis ActivitiesLittle Rock, AR$2,500332025
Our HouseLittle Rock, AR$2,500332025
Ar Children's FoundationLittle Rock, AR$2,000222025
Ar Hospice FoundationNorth Little Rock, AR$2,000332025
Center for Youth & FamiliesLittle Rock, AR$2,000222023
Pt ArkansasPine Bluff, AR$2,000112024
Advantage of Southeast ArMonticello, AR$1,500222023
Home for HealingLittle Rock, AR$1,500222023
Immerse ArLittle Rock, AR$1,500222024
Methodist Family Health FoundationLittle Rock, AR$1,500222025
Arkansas Broadcsting FoundationLittle Rock, AR$1,000112025
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra - Joan BassLittle Rock, AR$1,000222025
Courage Therapeutic Riding CenterPrairie Grove, AR$1,000112024
Imagination Library of the OuachitasLittle Rock, AR$1,000112023
Immanuel Baptist ChurchMount Ida, AR$1,000112023
Independent Case MgmtLittle Rock, AR$1,000112022
Radiant Hope IncShamrock, TX$1,000112024
Uams Foundation FundLittle Rock, AR$1,000112022
Vera Lloyd Presbyterian Family ServicesLittle Rock, AR$1,000112024
Central Ar FCALittle Rock, AR$750112023
Boys & Girls Club of Central ArLittle Rock, AR$500112022
Carti FoundationLittle Rock, AR$500112025
Eli Talley FoundationLittle Rock, AR$500112025
Fellowship Bible ChurchLittle Rock, AR$500112023
First Tee of ArkansasLittle Rock, AR$500112025
Goodwill of ArLittle Rock, AR$500112023
Harmony Health ClinicLittle Rock, AR$500112025
Lifetouch Health FoundationNorth Little Rock, AR$500112025
Vera LloydLittle Rock, AR$500112022
Warrior Booster ClubConway, AR$500112022
Life Skills for YouthLittle Rock, AR$200112023

19 of 41 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 58%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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.

Health Care
14 grants
Youth Development
6 grants
International Affairs
5 grants
Human Services
1 grant
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202219$29,900$1,000
202320$26,350$875
202416$28,400$1,000
202519$29,100$500

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

99% 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
$113K
Texas
$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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsArkansas Community Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsRiggs Benevolent Fund8 shared recipientsHeart of Arkansas United Way7 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. 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 Sally & Keith Riggs Foundation'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: 38 River Ridge Road, Little Rock, AR, 72227. 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 87-3893692 · 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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