· Public charity
Alabama Law Foundation Inc
To promote law related public service projects and provide for delivery of legal services to the poor.
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
- $10k–50k8 grants · $207k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM | $240,000 |
| SOUTH ALABAMA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM | $220,000 |
| LEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA | $200,000 |
| ALABAMA STATE BAR VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM | $200,000 |
| ALABAMA BANKRUPTCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM SAVLP | $135,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM | $125,000 |
| ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF COURTS | $105,370 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM | $100,000 |
| YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $70,000 |
| ALABAMA CENTER FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTIONS | $60,000 |
| HISPANIC INTEREST COALITION OF ALABAMA | $55,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE OF ALABAMA | $50,000 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITYCUMBERLAND INNOCENCE CLINIC | $37,250 |
| FRANK M JOHNSON JR INSTITUTE | $35,000 |
| SENIOR SERVICES VIA HEALTH | $25,000 |
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, $473k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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 INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +84%
- BVBIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC7× · 2017–2024 · $935k · revenue +1% · 29% of their budget
- MCMADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM7× · 2017–2024 · $807k · revenue +37% · 82% of their budget
Funded once
- BIBIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FILM FESTIVALone grant, 2017 · $3k
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 Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
To create a hub for alabamians committed to ending mass incarceration through social justice advocacy. the organization is dedicated to activating the power and elevating the voices of alabamians impacted by the criminal justice system.
Make sure any person who is injured by the misconduct and negligence of others can get justice in the courtroom, even when taking on the most powerful interests; to eliminate civil justice restrictions; to ensure members have the tools…
Atlanta legal aid provides legal services to the elderly and indigent citizens of the metropolitan atlanta area.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.
Legal aid of east tennessee provides legal representation, legal education, and other civil legal services for the low-income population in our community through advocacy of all types.
Mississippi volunteer lawyers project enables volunteer attorneys to provide equal access to justice for mississippians of low income and limited means through high quality pro bono legal assistance.
The aclu of alabama foundation battles to protect and expand the civil liberties and civil rights of alabamians.
Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.
To enforce, advance and defend the civil legal rights of low income and vulnerable people, especially on behalf of elderly, children, victims of domestic violence and persons with disabilities, by providing free, civil legal assistance to…
Mountain state justice provides free legal services to low income people in west virginia and assures that low income people have access to the court system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Services Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Miles College Community Development Corportation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 LEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program ↗
- Who funds MADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA CENTER FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds SHORT THE SQUIRREL INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUDGE FRANK M JOHNSON JR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds REDEMPTION EARNED INC ↗
- Who funds Senior Citizens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MILES COLLEGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORTATION ↗
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 Civil Justice Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Legal Services Alabama Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc · South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Law Foundation Inc 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.