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Adelia Russell Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $505k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HARBOR | $125,000 |
| CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LIBRARY | $85,000 |
| LAKE MARTIN AREA UNITED WAY | $70,000 |
| ARISE | $60,000 |
| ADELIA RUSSELL LIBRARY | $60,000 |
| ALEXANDER CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| MAINSTREET ALEXANDER CITY | $35,000 |
| RUSSELL FARM BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| TALLAPOOSA CHRISTIAN CRISIS CENTER | $20,000 |
| ALEXANDER CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $20,000 |
| LAKE MARTIN AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| ALEXANDER CITY FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| BRYANT JORDAN STUDENT-ATHLETE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| BACKPACK BUDDIES | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CHCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC7× · 2017–2024 · $828k · revenue +183%
- MSMAIN STREET ALEXANDER CITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +61% · 65% of their budget
- LMLAKE MARTIN AREA UNITED WAY4× · 2020–2024 · $162k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- COCHILDREN'S OF ALABAMA AL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $913k
- RCRAY COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $15k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of united way of west alabama is to promote the general welfare of the citizens of west alabama by: raising funds, on an annual basis, to assist the effective delivery of health and human care programs and services, allocating…
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community
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…
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.
The alabama public health association, inc., is an association of individuals and organizations interested in public health in alabama. the mission of the association is to link individuals and organizations in addressing public health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alexander City Schools Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 48 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET ALEXANDER CITY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE MARTIN AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds TALLAPOOSA CHRISTIAN CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BUDDIES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds RHIZOKIDS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Benjamin & Roberta Russell Foundation Inc · The Landa Fund · Crum Family Charitable Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Adelia Russell Charitable 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.
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.
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