· Public charity
Alabama Civil Justice Foundation
Provide grants and assistance to 501(c)(3) organizations assisting disadvantaged, disabled, and at-risk families and children.
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 $10k30 grants · $193k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $383k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k 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
- LSLEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $848k · revenue +84%
- BVBIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $374k · revenue +1%
- BABirmingham AIDS Outreach Inc6× · 2018–2023 · $361k · revenue +247%
Funded once
- ADALABAMA DISABILITIES ADVOCACY PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SDSELMA DISABILITIES ADVOCACY PROGRAM2× · 2018–2019 · $27k
- APALABAMA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone 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.
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.
Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
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.
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.
Social services
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.
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.
The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.
To build awareness about disparities for the underserved and underrepresented that exist across Alabama and the nation through advocacy and education.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
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.
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 field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
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 LEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Birmingham AIDS Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds AID TO INMATE MOTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ↗
- Who funds AIDS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Child Protect Inc ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE UNITED ↗
- Who funds Extended Family ↗
- Who funds VOICES for Alabama's Children ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds KID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds HOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA CENTER FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COOKERY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA ARISE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds SYLACAUGA ALLIANCE FOR FAMILY ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
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 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.
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.