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The Jim Tom and Connie Belle Butler Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$171k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Community Improvement$267kReligion$208kHuman Services$51kHealth$50kEducation$44kPhilanthropy$15kHousing & Shelter$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$100,000
CRU$25,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$18,100
RESTORATION HOUSE MINITRIES$7,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$5,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
EVERGLADE COMMUNITY CHURCH$5,000
SOUTHWEST CHURCH OF CHRIST$3,000
VALLEY VIEW SCHOOL$1,000
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH$500
FAMILY CRISS CENTER$250
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$200
ARKANSAS HOSPICE FOUNDATION$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%THE BADDOUR CENTER: $500 → 19%BADDOUR CENTER: $100 → 19%FAMILY CRISS CENTER: $250 → 17%FAMILY CRISS CENTER: $250 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$569k · 24 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +99% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
19

Total granted

$569k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
+49%

Still filing today

17%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +145%
  • WM
    WEST MEMPHIS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +99%
  • FC
    FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $500 · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • CG
    CEDAR GLADE BAPTIST ENCAMPMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • GI
    GRACE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION FOUND
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • LC
    LEBONHEUR CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc

To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education

Health
2
Saint Francis Healthcare System

Parent company for acute care hospital - the mission of saint francis healthcare system is to provide a ministry of healing, wellness, quality and love inspired by our faith in jesus christ.

Health
3
St Bernards Healthcare Inc

To provide christ-like healing to the community through education, treatment and health services. see schedule o for additional information. since 1900, st bernards has served as our community's trusted provider of comprehensive,…

4
Baptist Health Extended Care Hospital

To provide long term acute care to patients in little rock, arkansas. this facility provides a benefit to a number of local hospitals, physicians and the community as a whole.

Health
5
Arkansas Hospice Inc

To enhance the quality of life for those facing serious illness and loss by surrounding them with love and embracing them with the best in physical, emotional and spiritual care programs and services, and to help donors meet their…

Human Services
6
Arkansas Health Group

To be the state's preeminent physician organization - linked to baptist health and dedicated to meeting the needs of patients, employers and physicians through cost effective, high quality care and superior clinical outcomes.

Health
7
The Children's Hospital of Alabama

The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…

Health
8
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
Arkansas Children's Foundation

We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.continued on schedule o.arkansas children's will fundamentally transform healthcare delivery for the children of arkansas and beyond. arkansas children's core values…

Health
10
Baptist Health

Baptist health exists to provide quality patient centered services, promote and protect the voluntary not-for-profit healthcare system, provide quality health education, and respond to the changing health needs of the citizens of arkansas…

Health
11
Arkansas Methodist Medical Center Foundation

To provide funds in the form of gifts, grants and services to arkansas methodist medical center and other charitable organizations in furtherance of their charitable and scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
12
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Family Crisis Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $190,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — $125,850 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHCRU — $74,000 · OtherCRUCEDAR GLADE BAPTIST ENCAMPMENT — $50,000 · OtherCEDAR GLADE BAPTIST ENCAMPMENTEVERGLADE COMMUNITY CHURCH — $43,200 · OtherEVERGLADE COMMUNITY CHURCH+30 more — $114,400 · Other+30 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $43,400 · Health+5 more — $1,800 · HealthARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyWEST MEMPHIS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $2,000 · EducationTHE BADDOUR CENTER INC — $600 · Human ServicesFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC — $500 · Human Services
Other$597,450Health$45,200Philanthropy$15,000Education$2,000Human Services$1,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $43,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST MEMPHIS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BADDOUR CENTER INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BERNARDS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WEST MEMPHIS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
  • Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Inc
  • Who funds THE BADDOUR CENTER INC
  • Who funds FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC
  • Who funds Ag for Autism
  • Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
  • Who funds ARKANSAS HOSPICE FOUNDATION 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.

Arvest FoundationAR13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Jim Tom and Connie Belle Butler Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    3report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Jim Tom and Connie Belle Butler Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Jim Tom and Connie Belle Butler Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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