Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation Grants
Private foundation · Little Rock, AR · EIN 20-5795124 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2025 · Invitation only: no unsolicited applications
Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation is a private foundation based in Little Rock, AR (EIN 20-5795124). Its IRS Form 990-PF filings through tax year 2025 report $20.3M paid in 78 grants, with a median grant of $10K. It reports that it gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited applications.
Foundation website (as filed with the IRS) · arkansasanimalrescuefoundation.org
Research profile compiled by GrantCue from this foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings. It is not the foundation's own website, request for proposals or application page. Source: GrantCue Foundation Directory, grantcue.com/foundations/arkansas-animal-rescue-foundation-205795124
Future commitments are grants the foundation has reported but not yet paid.
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This foundation reports on its 990-PF that it only makes contributions to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited applications.
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Original filing text
Reported organization name: Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation
Giving by tax year
Year-level totals across every reported grant in this profile — a summary, not a filter. The awards further down are the largest individual grants across all years, not each year's complete list.
Where Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation gives
States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.
Largest reported grants
Historical awards reported to the IRS. These are examples of past giving, not open opportunities.
Compiled by GrantCue from IRS Form 990-PF filings. Source: grantcue.com/foundations/arkansas-animal-rescue-foundation-205795124
| Location | Purpose | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyon College | Batesville, AR | To establish the Katharine Reese Shelter Medicine and Animal Welfare Program at the Lyon College School of Veterinary Medicine, funding faculty, academic programs, construction of facilities, and a mobile veterinary unit. | Tax year 20252025 | $14.3M |
| Lyon College | Batesville, AR | To establish the Katharine Reese Shelter Medicine and Animal Welfare Program at the Lyon College School of Veterinary Medicine, funding faculty, academic programs, construction of facilities, and a mobile veterinary unit. | Tax year 20252025 | $2.8M |
| Renaissance Charitable Foundation | Indianapolis, IN | To establish a fund to support animal welfare and the furtherance of environmental stewardship after the Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation is dissolved. | Tax year 20252025 | $2.1M |
| Needy Paws Animal Shelter | Clarksville, AR | Spay/Neuter Partner Program | Tax year 20242024 | $57K |
| Friends of Kitties & Kanines | Fort Smith, AR | Spay Neuter Partner Program | Tax year 20242024 | $41K |
Showing 5 of the 25 largest grants (78 reported in all).
About this data
Figures are aggregated from Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation's IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (2 filings on file, most recent tax year 2025). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF filing on ProPublica. Raw e-file archive (ZIP) — a large IRS yearly archive download.
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