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Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER$5,000
EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC$5,000
EXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC$5,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI INC$5,000
GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT$5,000
INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$2,000
CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC OF AMERICA$2,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC$1,500
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$1,000
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$1,000
HOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC$1,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$1,000
PETS GOING PLACES$1,000
PINEBELT CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%HOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC: $1k → 15%HOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC: $1k → 15%CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $258 → 14%THE FIELDHOUSE INC: $1k → 22%THE FIELDHOUSE INC: $1k → 22%THE FIELDHOUSE INC: $1k → 22%THE FIELDHOUSE INC: $1k → 22%GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $5k → 14%GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$223k · 19 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
7

Total granted

$223k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+30%

Still filing today

95%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CD
    CITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +157%
  • ET
    EXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +31%
  • ES
    EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • WA
    WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -11%
  • JL
    JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS CENTENNIAL ENDOWMENT FOUND
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +45%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Mississippi Christian Family Services Inc

To provide rehabilitative social services to the distressed, handicapped and underprivileged.

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2
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
3
Our Daily Bread

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.

Food & Nutrition
4
Mississippi Food Network Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Northwest Louisiana Food Bank

Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.

Food & Nutrition
7
St Luke Food Pantry

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
Children's Refuge Ministries

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Harvest Hope Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
South Texas Food Bank

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…

Community Improvement
11
Storehouse Community Food Pantry

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.

Food & Nutrition
12
Friends Sharing Food Inc

Help reduce hunger in jackson county. our recipients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of Southeast Ms Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC: $30,000 · OtherEDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INCGENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER: $23,000 · OtherGENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTERChristian Services Inc of America: $11,000 · OtherChristian Services Inc of AmericaNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $10,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATIONJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $8,750 · OtherJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INCR3SM INC: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $7,000 · Other+3 moreTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MS INC: $22,500 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY…PINEBELT FOUNDATION: $8,650 · PhilanthropyPINEBELT FOUND…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyEXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionEXTRA TABLE FE…+2 more: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 moreCITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $30,000 · EmploymentCITIZENS DEVE…INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $12,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH…GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $5,250 · Human ServicesGENESIS WO…The Fieldhouse Inc: $4,000 · Human ServicesThe Fieldh…HOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesHOMES OF H…+1 more: $258 · Human ServicesNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $6,000 · HealthPINEBELT CHRISTIAN WOMEN JOB CORP: $5,000 · HealthKIDS HUB: $2,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $2,000 · HealthCHESHIRE ABBEY: $6,000 · AnimalsPets Going Places: $5,000 · Animals
Other$100,250Philanthropy$32,150Food & Nutrition$32,000Employment$30,000Human Services$23,508Health$15,000Animals$11,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetPINEBELT FOUNDATION: $8,650 over 6y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $1,000 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Sou…Pinebelt FoundationAsbury Foundation of …Mississippi Power Fou…Warren A Hood Jr Fami…Mapp Family FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Ergon Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Cadence Bank Foundati…Shell USA Company Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis Lou Ann and Melissa Poynter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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