How much did Trotter Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of Trotter Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

furtherance exempt

2019

furtherance exempt

2020

furtherance exempt

2021

furtherance exempt

2022

furtherance exempt

2023

furtherence exempt

2024

furtherence exempt

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k19 grants · $23k
$10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$800

Median grant

States reached

$996k

Total assets

Largest grants

TRINITY VILLAGE RETIREMENT CENTER$50,000
SEARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
YOGA WARRIORS FIGHTING CANCER$20,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
JEFFERSON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$5,000
CHILDRENS TUMOR FOUNDATION$5,000
ARTS AND SCIENCE CENTER FOR SO EAST ARKANSAS$2,750
WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST$2,500
FIVE OAKS AG RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$1,000
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT SERVICES$1,000
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR$800
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST AR$500
SOUTHEAST AR JEWEL FOUNDATION$500
JEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$332k · 18 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$332k

$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+114%

Still filing today

33%

14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

JR
JEFFERSON REGIONAL MEDICAL CTR FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +1262%
PB
PINE BLUFF COUNTRY CLUB
2× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +195%
TV
TRINITY VILLAGE INC
5× · 2017–2022 · $17k · revenue +15%

Funded once

AB
ARKANSAS BAPTIST FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $32k
SA
SOUTHEAST AR TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $30k
JR
JEFFERSON REGIONAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $25k

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.

Washington County-Johnson City Animal

Providing animal control to the johnson city and washington county communities.

Animals

Northwest Arkansas Council

Promotion of the growth, vitality, and development of northwest arkansas and its people.

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Humane Society of Jefferson County Inc

Animal shelter to care for the lost, homeless and abused animals of jefferson county.

Animals

Arkansas Zoological Foundation Inc

To provide support for the little rock zoological gardens

Animals

Humane Society of the Ozarks Inc

Promote the humane treatment of animals

Animals

Arkansas Foodbank

The arkansas foodbank acquires, through local and national partnerships, large quantities of food and other resources to distribute to hungry people in the state of arkansas. the arkansas foodbank supports programs for children as well as…

Food & Nutrition

Arkansas Farm Bureau Foundation

Arkansas farm bureau foundation (the "foundation") is organized for charitable and educational purposes to further the understanding of agricultural and rural issues, and to support the agricultural and rural community through financial…

Food & Nutrition

Northwest Arkansas Food Bank

To work toward the alleviation of hunger in northwest arkansas

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Food Bank of North Central Arkansas

Food bank that distributes food supplies to families in need in nine counties.

Food & Nutrition

Humane Society of Jefferson County

Animal well being and shelter operation

Animals

Boys & Girls Club of the Arkansas River Valley Inc

Promoting the health, social, education, and character development of youth

Youth Development

Jefferson County Historical Society

Operation of a local history museum

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Boys & Girls Club of Jefferson County. 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

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/12

Grantees still filing

10/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$468,192Human Services$28,966Health$23,000Recreation & Sports$18,135Youth Development$10,113Community Improvement$5,000Animals$4,250

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.

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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · The Kline Family Foundation · Harold S Seabrook Tr · George H Dunklin Jr Charitable · Amazonsmile 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 organisation Trotter 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON COUNTY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 710264612 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Trotter Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Trotter Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Trotter Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Trotter Foundation?

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Trotter Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Trotter Foundation?

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