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Alabama Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
To build support for alabama's independent colleges and universities and promote a greater appreciation of independent higher education and its importance to the educational, cultural and economic needs of alabama.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| US SPORTS ACADEMY | $6,500 |
| MILES COLLEGE | $6,500 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| HUNTINGDON COLLEGE | $6,500 |
| FAULKNER UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| AMRIDGE UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| TALLADEGA COLLEGE | $6,500 |
| STILLMAN COLLEGE | $6,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE | $6,500 |
| SPRING HILL COLLEGE | $6,500 |
| OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
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.
28 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TUTuskegee University3× · 2023–2025 · $19k · revenue +13%
Samford University3× · 2023–2025 · $19k · revenue +32%- SCStillman College3× · 2023–2025 · $19k · revenue +14%
Funded once
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.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.
The mission of the University is to prepare students personally, socially, and intellectually to effectively function in a global and technological society.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
The College is an institution of higher education and provides instruction and various support services in achieving its purpose.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
Its purpose is to offer a holistic educational program that will motivate the student to value and achieve academi excellence within the context of commitment to moral and spiritual values.
A liberal arts college founded in 1849 and associated with the united methodist church, providing quality education for all students in an atomosphere that promotes intellectual pursuit, spiritual growth and personal responsibility.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Building on a rich Presbyterian heritage and a pioneering spirit, Tusculum University provides an active and experiential education within a caring Christian environment to inspire civic engagement, enrich personal lives, and equip…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samford University and the most unlike its peers is United States Sports University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 28 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 Tuskegee University ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds Stillman College ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Miles College Inc ↗
- Who funds AMRIDGE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING HILL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAULKNER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Talladega College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SPORTS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
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: The Simpson Foundation · Allyrae Wallace Educational Trust · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Folds of Honor Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Alabama Association of Independent Colleges and Universities 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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