· Private foundation
Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI INC | $5,000 |
| GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT | $5,000 |
| EXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC | $5,000 |
| EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| CITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $5,000 |
| INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES | $3,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC | $1,500 |
| HOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC | $1,000 |
| KIDS HUB | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| PINEBELT CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS | $1,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| PETS GOING PLACES | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +4% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CDCITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +157%
- ETEXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +31%
- ESEDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- JLJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS CENTENNIAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDone grant, 2020 · $3k
- WAWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -11%
- TSTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDRENone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -4%
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.
To provide rehabilitative social services to the distressed, handicapped and underprivileged.
Social services
Our daily bread feeding ministry is a diverse, faith-based, ecumenical organization dedicated to helping cure hunger by unconditionally providing nutritious meals and a sense of community in a safe and supportive atmosphere.
To relieve poverty-related hunger by distributing donated and purchased food and grocery products through a network of member churches and nonprofit organizations; to provide nutrition education to the needy; and to emphasize advocacy and…
The food bank operates as a clearing house for the collecting, sorting, storing and distribution of edible food to qualified agencies; who in turn pass the food along to alabama's "food insecure" citizens.
Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.
The St. Luke Food Pantry is an IRS-recognized 501(c)3 nonprofit organization incorporated in the State of Mississippi. The organization is committed to continuing its long-standing history of providing food boxes to the eligible…
Dedicated to the promotion and protection of the general health and well being of children in chickasaw county, ms and surrounding areas by providing food, clothing, and other support for children and families in need.
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
To alleviate hunger in the immediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…
To provide temporary food assistance to citizens of Vicksburg and Warren County, Mississippi who suffer from Food Insecurity, that is not always knowing where there next meal will come from.
Help reduce hunger in jackson county. our recipients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of Southeast Ms Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pets Going Places. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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. 25 of the 28 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 CITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds EXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Christian Services Inc of America ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds PINEBELT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESHIRE ABBEY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PINEBELT CHRISTIAN WOMEN JOB CORP ↗
- Who funds Pets Going Places ↗
- Who funds R3SM INC ↗
- Who funds The Fieldhouse Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS HUB ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
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: The United Way of Southeast Ms Inc · Pinebelt Foundation · Asbury Foundation of Hattiesburg Inc · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Warren A Hood Jr Family Foundation · Mapp Family Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Ergon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Cadence Bank Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family 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.
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.