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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 it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +103% since the first grant, against +58% for those 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

+103%
+58%

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
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +145%
  • WM
    WEST MEMPHIS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +103%
  • 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
  • CR
    CROWLEYS RIDGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
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,…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Health Foundation Inc; 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, 2017–2026.

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. 11 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BERNARDS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $100 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.

  • 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 Ag for Autism ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

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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 The Jim Tom and Connie Belle Butler Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jim Tom and Connie Belle Butler Charitable Foundation Inc. 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
    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, 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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 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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