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Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$120k15%
FY20249$104k22%
FY202315$129k7%
FY202214$121k0%
FY202115$153k13%
FY202012$181k17%
FY201912$181k17%
FY201811$102kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$274kArts & Culture$264kHuman Services$261kReligion$192kHousing & Shelter$47kYouth Development$37kHealth$13kAnimals$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Methodist Village Inc$185,000830%
Community Services Clearinghouse$114,10082%
US Marshals Museum Inc$55,00031%
Fort Smith Boys & Girls Clubs$30,30060%
Community Rescue Mission Inc$22,80061%
Fort Smith Children's Emergency Shelter$22,30061%
Fort Smith Art Center Inc$14,30051%
Community School of the Arts$10,0001n/a
Fort Smith Museum of History$10,00021%
Lincoln Childcare Center Inc$10,00021%
Arkansas Family Alliance F/K/A Whitsonlife Inc$7,50021%
Sebastian County Humane Society$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($607k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMethodist Village Inc: $185,000 over 8y, 30% of budgetCommunity Services Clearinghouse: $114,100 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetUS Marshals Museum Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFort Smith Boys & Girls Clubs: $30,300 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Rescue Mission Inc: $22,800 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFort Smith Children's Emergency Shelter: $22,300 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFort Smith Art Center Inc: $14,300 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFort Smith Museum of History: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLincoln Childcare Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetArkansas Family Alliance F/K/A Whitsonlife Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSebastian County Humane Society: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy FoundationAR26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation · Elizabeth H & Stanley E Evans Charitable Foundation · Alline B & Chloe C Davis Charitable Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Maurras Family Charitable Trust · The Griffin Charitable Organization · Robert a & Mary Carleton Young Foundation · Rosalie Tilles Childrens Home Inc · Walter O Caldwell Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers

How much does Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers give?
Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers reported 13 grants totaling $119,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (25%), Arts & Culture (24%), Human Services (24%).
Who are Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Methodist Village Inc ($185k), Community Services Clearinghouse ($114k), US Marshals Museum Inc ($55k).
Does Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation, Elizabeth H & Stanley E Evans Charitable Foundation, Alline B & Chloe C Davis Charitable Foundation.
Where is Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers based?
Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers is based in AR.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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