· Public charity
Alabama Humanities Alliance
To connect alabamians: to tell stories and to listen, to share ideas and to learn to link the past to the present, and to seek a deeper understanding of our humanity.
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.
The 26 grants below total $307,489 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $363,511 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,022 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $25,010 |
| TROY UNIVERSITY | $21,544 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $16,929 |
| MOBILE MEDICAL MUSEUM | $16,150 |
| TENNESSEE VALLEY ROCKET CITY PRIDE | $15,000 |
| THE UNIVERISTY OF ALABAMA | $14,918 |
| THE UNIVERISTY OF WEST ALABAMA | $14,520 |
| THE FLOURISH ALABAMA | $14,500 |
| TRI-STATE EXPO JUNETEENTH AFFAIR | $12,397 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA | $12,269 |
| KIDS IN BIRMINGHAM 1963 | $11,000 |
| ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF TUSCALOOSA INC | $10,250 |
| CREATE BIRMINGHAM | $10,250 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ALABAMA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION | $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 (FY20–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% 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 +57% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 12 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- VPVULCAN PARK FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +26%
- AEAlabama Education Television Foundation Authority5× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +112%
- TLTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2022 · $41k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- ETEMPOWERING THE SOUTHERN ROOTS ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2021 · $15k
- TOTown of Courtland - Courtland Public Libraryone grant, 2021 · $15k
- HBHUGO BLACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -92% · 40% of their budget
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.
Non Profit Museum
To Preserve the Governors Mansion
Preservation of items of historical significance in and to the community of spruce pine, alabama.
The foundation's missionis to provide assistance to the alabama bicentennial commission, which supports, created and executes events and activities that commemorate the stories of alabama's people, places and path to statehood.
To educate, preserve and mark the historic contributions of African-Americans in Mobile.
Operation of county museum and preservation of museum assets
Encourage and promote study of alabama history
Preserving and demonstrating railroad history
The education of the public on Shelby County history.
To preserve and promote the history of the ironworks industry in alabama and to operate two parks, which includes a historical museum.
To present and promote the historical aspect of the local river from pre-history until the present day
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery and the most unlike its peers is The Wallace Center for Arts and. 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 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
105 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. 105 of the 168 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 VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority ↗
- Who funds THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LANDMARKS FOUNDATION OF MONTGOMERY ↗
- Who funds INVISIBLE HISTORIES ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH COMMUNITY RESTORATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JESSE OWENS MEMORIAL PARK ↗
- Who funds TUSKEGEE HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS MULTICULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEDICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE JUDGE FRANK M JOHNSON JR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF EAST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN LANDMARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER BIRTHPLACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WALLACE CENTER FOR ARTS AND ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS BLUES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM NEGRO SOUTHERN LEAGUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Protective Life Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable 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 Humanities Alliance 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.