· Private foundation
Howard Poteet Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $22,494 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $22,494 |
| NEIGHBOR-TO-NEIGHBOR | $1,752 |
| CASA | $1,752 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $1,752 |
| SE AR BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM | $1,751 |
| PINE BLUFF BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $1,751 |
| SOAR | $1,751 |
| THE CALL | $1,751 |
| AREA AGENCY ON AGING OF SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS | $1,751 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY 4-H PROGRAM | $1,751 |
| DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $1,751 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $1,751 |
| PINE BLUFF DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT | $1,751 |
| DEPAUL USA INC OPPORTUNITY HOUSE | $1,751 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NTNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +6%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN2× · 2017–2018 · $27k · revenue +120%- TCTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF PINE BLUFF9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- SJSHERIFF JOE PAUL KING MEMORIAL SCHOone grant, 2018 · $3k
- CAChristian Aid Ministriesgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +29%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…
The organization and its volunteers served as advocates for abused and neglected children. the nationwide organization has helped more than two million children.
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
To provide medical care to the uninsured.
Child and family advocacy related to abuse
The cac provides intervention services for children who are victims of severe abuse and advocacy services to their non offending caregivers. this includes forensic interviews, medical exams, therapy, and prevention education. the cac also…
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
Baton rouge children's advocacy center serves abused children and their non-offending family members. services include forensic interviews, therapy services, and a family advocacy support program.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dollywood Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF PINE BLUFF ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds PINE BLUFF DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GFPB Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CALL ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Aid Ministries ↗
- Who funds AREA AGENCY ON AGING OF SOUTHEAST AR INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Harold S Seabrook Tr · United Way of Southeast Ark Inc · Trotter Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Howard Poteet Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.