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Trotter Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$128k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$98kPublic Benefit$84kHuman Services$77kHealth$76kPhilanthropy$64kEducation$64kRecreation & Sports$22kYouth Development$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 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
2
States reached
$537k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT SERVICES$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$1,000
FIVE OAKS AG RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER$1,000
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR$800
SOUTHEAST AR JEWEL FOUNDATION$500
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$500
JEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%AR ENTERPRISES FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $500 → 17%TRINITY VILLAGE INC: $5k → 22%TRINITY VILLAGE INC: $5k → 22%TRINITY VILLAGE INC: $3k → 22%TRINITY VILLAGE INC: $3k → 22%TRINITY VILLAGE INC: $500 → 22%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $10k → 22%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $1k → 22%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $800 → 22%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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$313k · 18 repeat orgs$238k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
28

Total granted

$313k
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-3%

Still filing today

39%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentAnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • GI
    GFPB Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $84k · revenue +576%
  • PB
    PINE BLUFF COUNTRY CLUB
    2× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +195%
  • TV
    TRINITY VILLAGE INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $17k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • AB
    ARKANSAS BAPTIST FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $32k
  • SA
    SOUTHEAST AR TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • LL
    LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $26k

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
The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
2
Central Arkansas Development Council

To provide services to low income individuals.

Community Improvement
3
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
4
Arkansas Community Foundation Inc

Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.

Philanthropy
5
Northwest Arkansas Council

Promotion of the growth, vitality, and development of northwest arkansas and its people, concentrating on workforce development, regional stewardship, infrastructure, and economic development.

6
The Jones Center for Families Inc

Provide recreational and educational activities for citizens of northwest arkansas.

Human Services
7
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc

To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education

Health
8
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families

Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…

Human Services
9
Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce

To foster economic growth and development in central arkansas.

10
East Arkansas Family Health Center Inc

Through its clinics in west memphis, lepanto, trumann, blytheville, helena, marvell, marion, earle, & forrest city, arkansas, the center provides care for persons suffering from illness or disability and carries on health related…

11
Food Bank of North Central Arkansas

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

Food & Nutrition
12
1ST Choice Healthcare Inc

To provide quality affordable primary healthcare to northeast arkansas without regard to financial barriers.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

19 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. 19 of the 60 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $65,500 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHTRINITY VILLAGE RETIREMENT CENTER — $50,000 · OtherTRINITY VILLAGE RETIREMENT CENTERARKANSAS BAPTIST FOUNDATION — $31,907 · OtherARKANSAS BAPTIST FOUNDATIONUAPB FOUNDATION FUND — $30,500 · OtherUAPB FOUNDATION FUNDSOUTHEAST AR TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherSOUTHEAST AR TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONSEARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $27,223 · OtherSEARK COLLEGE FOUNDATIONLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY — $25,706 · OtherLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETYJEFFERSON REGIONAL FOUNDATION — $25,258 · OtherJEFFERSON REGIONAL FOUNDATIONYOGA WARRIORS FIGHTING CANCER — $20,000 · Other+39 more — $70,589 · Other+39 moreGFPB Inc — $83,759 · Community ImprovementGFPB IncPINE BLUFF DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementPINE BLUFF DOWNTOW…TRINITY VILLAGE INC — $17,166 · Human ServicesNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $11,800 · Human ServicesWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE — $2,500 · Human Services+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesJefferson Regional Medical Center Foundation — $23,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · HealthPINE BLUFF COUNTRY CLUB — $18,135 · Recreation & SportsBoys & Girls Club of Jefferson County — $10,113 · Youth DevelopmentARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $7,500 · Philanthropy
Other$376,683Community Improvement$88,759Human Services$31,966Health$23,500Recreation & Sports$18,135Youth Development$11,113Philanthropy$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGFPB Inc — $83,759 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetJefferson Regional Medical Center Foundation — $23,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPINE BLUFF COUNTRY CLUB — $18,135 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTRINITY VILLAGE INC — $17,166 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $11,800 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Jefferson County — $10,113 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE BLUFF DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS GAME AND FISH FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $1,750 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFIVE OAKS AG RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS ENTERPRISES FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL — $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES — $150 over 1y, 0.1% 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 GFPB Inc
  • Who funds Jefferson Regional Medical Center Foundation
  • Who funds PINE BLUFF COUNTRY CLUB
  • Who funds TRINITY VILLAGE INC
  • Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Jefferson County
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC
  • Who funds PINE BLUFF DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT INC
  • Who funds WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE
  • Who funds ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds FIVE OAKS AG RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER INC
  • Who funds ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION

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 IncAR28.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Harold S Seabrook Tr · The Kline Family Foundation · George H Dunklin Jr Charitable Foundation · Jefferson Hospital Association Inc · Howard Poteet Foundation · Simmons First Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organization 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 60 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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