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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.

$44k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
16%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 19
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation 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; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsEmploymentPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving17$42k0%
FY202419$44k16%
FY202318$44k11%
FY202218$45k17%
FY202117$36k35%
FY202011$24k91%
FY20192$2kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$40kEmployment$35kPhilanthropy$32kReligion$31kHuman Services$31kHousing & Shelter$23kAnimals$11kEducation$11kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCitizens Development Center: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetExtra Table Feeds Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetEdwards Street Fellowship Center Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe United Way of Southeast Ms Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetInterfaith Family Services: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Services Inc of America: $11,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Mississippi Foundation: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Dallas Inc: $8,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCheshire Abbey: $6,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGenesis Womens Shelter & Support: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPinebelt Christian Women Job Corp: $5,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPets Going Places: $5,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetR3sm Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetThe Fieldhouse Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWest Alabama Food Bank Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomes of Hope for Children Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKids Hub: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Protective Services Community Partners Inc: $258 over 1y, 0.0% 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 23.

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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.

The United Way of Southeast Ms IncMS20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation

How much does Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation give?
Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $43,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (16%), Employment (14%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Citizens Development Center ($30k), Extra Table Feeds Inc ($30k), Edwards Street Fellowship Center Inc ($30k).
Does Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation 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 Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The United Way of Southeast Ms Inc, Pinebelt Foundation, Asbury Foundation of Hattiesburg Inc.
Where is Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation based?
Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation is based in DE.

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 28 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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