How to apply
Accepts applications
The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.
- Contact
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Gibbs Ferguson
209 West Oak Street
McGehee, AR 71654
(870) 222-6660
- Form and materials
- Applications should be in writing giving the applicant's name, address, telephone number and details why the applicant deserves consideration.
- Deadlines
- Applications are accepted at any time.
- Restrictions
- Scholarships and grants are limited to the education, maintenance, sustenance and rehabilitation of deserving people who are in need of assistance due to age, illness, disability, infirmity or adverse conditions and whose needs are not met through usual assistance from state or federal governments or from mainline charitable organizations.
Assets and giving by year
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Tax year 2025
$291,283
- Grants listed
- 17
- Assets, end of year
- $6,387,125
-
Tax year 2024
$291,606
- Grants listed
- 21
- Assets, end of year
- $6,402,330
-
Tax year 2023
$292,940
- Grants listed
- 21
- Assets, end of year
- $6,411,528
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Tax year 2022
$290,111
- Grants listed
- 15
- Assets, end of year
- $6,426,397
-
Tax year 2021
$295,134
- Grants listed
- 1
- Assets, end of year
- $6,435,054
-
Tax year 2020
$286,081
- Grants listed
- 1
- Assets, end of year
- $6,449,739
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Tax year 2019
$293,276
- Grants listed
- 1
- Assets, end of year
- $6,447,175
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Tax year 2018
$294,442
- Grants listed
- 1
- Assets, end of year
- $6,456,152
Grants paid in 2025
As listed on the return. Grants to individuals show as “Individual”, with purpose and amount only.
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McGehee Hospital FoundationMcGehee, AR
Charity
$124,372 -
Boys Girls Club of Southeast ARMcGehee, AR
Charity
$50,000 -
UAM FoundationMonticello, AR
Scholarships
$25,000 -
McGehee Food PantryMcGehee, AR
Charity
$20,000 -
McGehee Cemetery AssocMcGehee, AR
Charity
$20,000 -
First Baptist Church Memorial KitchMcGehee, AR
Kitchen Construction
$15,000 -
City of McGehee OwlfestFlood DisastMcGehee, AR
Civic
$12,911 -
Individual
Charity
$8,000 -
McGehee Men's ClubMcGehee, AR
Charity
$5,000 -
Foundation for Boys Girls Club of MMcGehee, AR
Charity
$5,000 -
First Presbyterian ChurchMcGehee, AR
Charity
$2,500 -
Desha County LibraryMcGehee, AR
General Operations
$1,000 -
Johnny Polite Memorial FoundationMcGehee, AR
Charity
$500 -
Individual
Charity
$500 -
Individual
Charity
$500 -
Individual
Charity
$500 -
Desha County ArkansasArkansas City, AR
Roof Repairs
$500
Where the money goes
By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.
- Education1 grant $5,000100% of the total
By State
Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.
- Arkansas13 grants $281,783
Officers, directors and trustees
As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.
- Gibbs FergusonTrustee Hours 5Pay $0
- Robert LuckyTrustee Hours 0.25Pay $2,400
- James R DanielsTrustee Hours 0.25Pay $2,400
The return
More foundations
- Private foundations in Arkansas
- Private foundations in McGehee
- Foundations that fund education in Arkansas
Similar foundations
Same main cause (education), giving between a quarter and four times this foundation’s where possible, nearby first.
- Bob Carver Charitable Trust 11 grants Accepts applications $300,000 giving
- Rebsamen Fund 40 grants Accepts applications $282,048 giving
- Arkansas Community Health & Education Foundation 13 grants Accepts applications $307,036 giving
- The Fox Family Charitable Trust 8 grants Preselected only $272,500 giving
- Frank D Hickingbotham Foundation Trust 26 grants Accepts applications $312,682 giving