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Alabama Civil Justice Foundation

Provide grants and assistance to 501(c)(3) organizations assisting disadvantaged, disabled, and at-risk families and children.

$744k
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$2.7MHealth$744kHuman Services$578kEducation$277kCivil Rights$116kCommunity Improvement$78kPhilanthropy$72kHousing & Shelter$48kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $193k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $383k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE$100,000
MONTGOMERY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM$55,000
ALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE$25,000
LEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA$25,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF AL AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF AL$25,000
HISPANIC INTEREST COALITION OF ALABAMA$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF LAW$25,000
SYLACAUGA ALLIANCE FOR FAMILY ENHANCEMENT INC$20,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA$20,000
THE COOKERY PROJECT$20,000
HOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES$20,000
DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$18,000
EAST LAKE INITIATIVE$18,000
PATHWAYS$18,000
UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA$18,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $291k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%EXTENDED FAMILY: $23k → 16%VICTIM SERVICES OF CULLMAN INC: $6k → 16%FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTH ALABAM: $10k → 17%THE FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 19%GENESIS: $6k → 20%BRIDGING THE GAP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6k → 20%EXTENDED FAMILY FOR KIDS: $12k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS SERVING CENTRAL WEST ALABAMA: $10k → 17%SYLACAUGA ALLIANCE FOR FAMILY ENHANCEMENT INC: $20k → 18%BLANKET FORT HOPE: $6k → 7%EAGLE'S WINGS: $8k → 17%ALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS: $15k → 18%ALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS: $15k → 18%ALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS: $13k → 18%ALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS: $10k → 18%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $8k → 18%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $10k → 16%HEART GALLERY ALABAMA: $8k → 16%HEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA: $8k → 16%IS-ABLE MINISTRIESTHE IS-ABLE CENTER: $6k → 16%YWCA CENTRAL ALABAMA: $20k → 16%PATHWAYS: $18k → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $10k → 16%PATHWAYS: $10k → 16%ALABAMA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT SEXUAL HEALTH: $12k → 18%BIRMINGHAM TALKS: $6k → 16%HATELESS FOUNDATION: $8k → 18%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 34 repeat orgs$972k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
58

Total granted

$3.8M
$685k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+37%

Still filing today

91%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • LS
    LEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $848k · revenue +84%
  • BV
    BIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $374k · revenue +1%
  • BA
    Birmingham AIDS Outreach Inc
    6× · 2018–2023 · $361k · revenue +247%

Funded once

  • AD
    ALABAMA DISABILITIES ADVOCACY PROGRAM
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • SD
    SELMA DISABILITIES ADVOCACY PROGRAM
    2× · 2018–2019 · $27k
  • AP
    ALABAMA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +271%

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
Central Alabama Regional Child Advocacy Center

Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.

Crime & Legal
2
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services
3
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center

Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.

Crime & Legal
4
Southeast Alabama Child Advocacy Center

Established to serve as an advocate of children & to reduce the trauma & anxiety of victims of child abuse by providing coordinated multi- disciplinary & human approach to the investigation & interviewing process.

Human Services
5
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
6
Court Appointed Special Advocates

To be the voice for children who have been victims of abuse and/or neglect. Our vision is to serve every child in the Cheaha Region by providing them with a caring and competent trained volunteer.

Crime & Legal
7
West Alabama Childrens Advocacy Center Inc

To provide a child-focused approach to the intervention, treatment, prevention, and prosecution of child abuse cases. to provide free therapy to child abuse victims and age appropriate awareness in our school systems.

Human Services
8
The Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education

The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.

9
Nami Alabama Inc

Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.

Health
10
Rebuilding Together Central Alabama

Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.

Community Improvement
11
Alabama Impact Alliance

To build awareness about disparities for the underserved and underrepresented that exist across Alabama and the nation through advocacy and education.

Community Improvement
12
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connection Inc and the most unlike its peers is Genesis Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyProfessional Trade Associat…Child & Family Support Serv…Crisis Support & Recovery H…K-12 Schools and Educationa…Disability Services & Healt…University Support Foundati…Affordable Housing Developm…Youth Mentoring & Empowerme…Christian Evangelism Minist…Arts & Music Education Orga…Family Philanthropic Founda…Industry Trade Associations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr16%9%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr15%32%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr14%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr16%1%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr15%33%20–35yr11%40%35–55yr14%8%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/137
the rest of the field
16%
1,787/11,204

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

125 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/125
Grantees still filing
82/125
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC — $847,500 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INCSouth Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program — $392,000 · Crime & LegalSouth Alabama Volunteer Lawyers ProgramBIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC — $374,375 · Crime & LegalBIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INCMONTGOMERY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION — $354,500 · Crime & LegalMONTGOMERY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATIONMADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM — $157,500 · Crime & LegalMADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAMAID TO INMATE MOTHERS INC — $100,000 · Crime & Legal+11 more — $226,100 · Crime & Legal+11 moreBirmingham AIDS Outreach Inc — $361,250 · HealthBirmingham AID…AIDS ALABAMA INC — $67,500 · HealthAIDS ALABAMA I…The Children's Hospital of Alabama — $38,500 · HealthThe Children's…SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC — $37,000 · HealthSIGHT SAVERS O…+10 more — $101,850 · Health+10 moreAlabama Dept Conservation & Natural Res — $117,500 · OtherAlabama Dept Conserva…BOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA — $94,120 · OtherBOARD OF THE UNIVERSI…ALABAMA DISABILITIES ADVOCACY PROGRAM — $50,000 · OtherALABAMA DISABILITIES …DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER — $35,500 · OtherHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA — $97,500 · OtherHISPANIC AND IMMIGRAN…ALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE UNITED — $35,000 · OtherVOICES for Alabama's Children — $32,500 · Other+40 more — $447,080 · Other+40 moreALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS — $52,500 · Human ServicesExtended Family — $34,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM — $30,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS INC — $27,500 · Human ServicesKID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC — $21,000 · Human ServicesSYLACAUGA ALLIANCE FOR FAMILY ENHANCEMENT INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA INC — $15,500 · Human ServicesTHE ALABAMA CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN PREGNANCY — $12,000 · Human Services+13 more — $99,000 · Human ServicesTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE — $106,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $27,000 · EducationALABAMA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $20,000 · EducationTHE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $19,500 · EducationREGIONAL LIBRARY AND ARTS FOUNDATION — $13,750 · EducationVALIANT CROSS ACADEMY — $12,250 · EducationMONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationSOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL — $10,000 · EducationALAQUEST COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATION — $10,000 · EducationHUNTSVILLE INNER CITY LEARNING CENTER INC — $10,000 · Education+4 more — $25,500 · EducationALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC — $130,625 · Public BenefitALABAMA ARISE — $20,000 · Public BenefitUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC — $25,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCANDID — $18,750 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyANNISTON COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $6,000 · Philanthropy
Crime & Legal$2,451,975Health$606,100Other$909,200Human Services$312,000Education$264,000Public Benefit$150,625Philanthropy$115,250

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 budgetLEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC — $847,500 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetSouth Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program — $392,000 over 8y, 29% of budgetBIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC — $374,375 over 8y, 21% of budgetBirmingham AIDS Outreach Inc — $361,250 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION — $354,500 over 8y, 32% of budgetMADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM — $157,500 over 8y, 19% of budgetALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC — $130,625 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE — $106,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAID TO INMATE MOTHERS INC — $100,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA — $97,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $81,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAIDS ALABAMA INC — $67,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS — $52,500 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetChild Protect Inc — $49,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $38,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC — $37,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER — $35,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE UNITED — $35,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetExtended Family — $34,500 over 3y, 24% of budgetVOICES for Alabama's Children — $32,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAYS INC — $27,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $27,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC — $25,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF WISCONSIN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetKID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA — $21,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALABAMA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALABAMA CENTER FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE COOKERY PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetALABAMA ARISE — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSYLACAUGA ALLIANCE FOR FAMILY ENHANCEMENT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANDID — $18,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST LAKE INITIATIVE — $18,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetALABAMA COALITION AGAINST RAPE INC — $17,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA INC — $15,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ALABAMA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MOBILE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NORTHWEST ALABAMA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMONTGOMERY CANCER WELLNESS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN — $14,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMITCHELL'S PLACE INC — $13,350 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVictory Health Partners Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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.

The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL129.2× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Women's Foundation of Alabama · Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer 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 Alabama Civil Justice 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%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 122 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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