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Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
269
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$305k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$69MHuman Services$2.3MEducation$1.6MPhilanthropy$298kReligion$101kHealth$96kArts & Culture$49kHousing & Shelter$6k
02FY2024 · 269 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 269 grants below total $13,506,324, the rows itemized in this filing. The $13,863,801 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $357,477 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k143 grants · $3.7M
  • $50k–250k115 grants · $9.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $592k
$43,679
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WEST ALABAMA$305,130
TKJ BY HIS GRACE MINISTRIES INC DBA BY HIS GRACE DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER$286,893
KINGDOM SEEKERS WORSHIP CENTER$182,247
Individual grant recipient$174,631
TRACEY HILL DBA KIDZ ZONE LEARNING ACADEMY LLC$171,568
WESTLAKE ACADEMY LLC$157,131
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$156,308
AIM ACADEMY LLC$148,131
FOCUS POINT EDUCATION ACADEMY$142,116
DAVINA TOLVER DBA PURPOSE CLUBHOUSE LEARNING ACADEMY$138,568
UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE$135,662
ATHENS STATE UNIVERSITY$131,246
MCRAE LEARNING CENTER DBA MCRAE GAINES PREPARATORY SCHOOL$125,631
ANGEL JANE LLC DBA THE LEARNING TREE - 1$116,131
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$115,126
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $880k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%JASPER AREA FAMILY SERVICES CENTER: $5k → 17%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $134k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $66k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $46k → 16%GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES: $122k → 19%GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES: $22k → 19%GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES: $17k → 19%DALLAS COUNTY SYSTEM OF SERVICE INC: $20k → 33%DALLAS COUNTY SYSTEM OF SERVICE INC: $15k → 33%WETUMPKA PRESCHOOL & CDC: $10k → 12%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER OF ALABAMA INC: $80k → 18%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER OF ALABAMA INC: $41k → 18%PEE WEE ANGELS CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER: $199k → 18%PEE WEE ANGELS CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER: $56k → 18%PEE WEE ANGELS CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER: $44k → 18%PEE WEE ANGELS CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER: $6k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68M · 262 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

262 repeat relationships: 213 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

262
60

Total granted

$68M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+34%

Still filing today

13%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TB
    TKJ BY HIS GRACE MINISTRIES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +34%
  • FP
    Focus Point Education Academy
    4× · 2021–2024 · $882k · revenue +91% · 57% of their budget
  • WM
    WEST MONTGOMERY ED FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $858k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • KZ
    KIDZ ZONE LEARNING ACADEMY LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $632k
  • TL
    THE LEARNING TREE (PRATTVILLE LOCATION)
    one grant, 2023 · $264k
  • RR
    RIVER REGIONS KIDS III5690 ATLANTA H
    one grant, 2023 · $254k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Childrens Workshop

Preschool education

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2
Jackson Family Childcare

To provide high quality, comprehensive child development and after school care to ensure that children can reach their highest potential

—
3
Wee Care Christian Learning Center

Early childhood education

Education
4
Park Place Early Learning Center

Child care

—
5
Triplett Umc Child Development Center

To provide quality care and education to children

—
6
Waynesboro Early Learning Center

Provide families with safe, quality child care in an environment that fosters learning and respect

—
7
Tullahoma Day Care Center Inc

Daycare center

Human Services
8
United Way of West Alabama Inc

The mission of united way of west alabama is to promote the general welfare of the citizens of west alabama by: raising funds, on an annual basis, to assist the effective delivery of health and human care programs and services, allocating…

Philanthropy
9
Hancock County Learning Center

Provide affordable and depenable daycare and head start programs for hancock county and the surrounding areas

—
10
Peachtree Presbyterian Pre-School Inc

Peachtree presbyterian pre-school offers an early childhood education program that provides young children with a christian-centered environment where they may grow, learn, and develop.

—
11
Wribbenhall Child Development Center

Provide daycare/preschool for children

Education
12
Atlantic City Day Nursery

Childcare

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Ability Inc; the most unlike its peers is Snead State Community College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 374 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+185 more: $60,994,558 · Other+185 moreTKJ BY HIS GRACE MINISTRIES: $1,342,791 · EducationMCRAE LEARNING CENTER INC: $861,131 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MOBILE: $314,352 · EducationAtlanta Speech School Inc: $182,490 · EducationCOUNCIL FOR PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION INC: $132,084 · EducationTRENHOLM STATE FOUNDATION INC: $125,154 · EducationFocus Point Education Academy: $881,866 · Youth DevelopmentPEE WEE ANGELS CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER: $303,679 · Human ServicesCHILDCARE RESOURCES: $246,462 · Human ServicesGULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES INC: $160,505 · Human ServicesFAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER OF ALABAMA INC: $120,373 · Human ServicesHEALTHY KIDS INC: $801,000 · Food & NutritionGATEWAY EMPOWERMENT INC: $364,679 · ReligionCANDID: $110,929 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $99,220 · Philanthropy
Other$60,994,558Education$2,958,002Youth Development$881,866Human Services$831,019Food & Nutrition$801,000Religion$364,679Philanthropy$210,149

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTKJ BY HIS GRACE MINISTRIES: $1,342,791 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetFocus Point Education Academy: $881,866 over 4y, 57% of budgetMCRAE LEARNING CENTER INC: $861,131 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetWEST MONTGOMERY ED FOUNDATION: $858,131 over 4y, 18% of budgetHEALTHY KIDS INC: $801,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetPETER PAN DAY CARE INC & KINDERGARTEN OF CLANTON INC: $400,131 over 4y, 49% of budgetGATEWAY EMPOWERMENT INC: $364,679 over 4y, 51% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MOBILE: $314,352 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPEE WEE ANGELS CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER: $303,679 over 4y, 45% of budgetMACON EAST ACADEMY: $258,929 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetCHILDCARE RESOURCES: $246,462 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $182,490 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES INC: $160,505 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION INC: $132,084 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTRENHOLM STATE FOUNDATION INC: $125,154 over 2y, 55% of budgetFAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER OF ALABAMA INC: $120,373 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCANDID: $110,929 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $99,220 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRATTVILLE ALABAMA INC: $85,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds TKJ BY HIS GRACE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Focus Point Education Academy ↗
  • Who funds MCRAE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST MONTGOMERY ED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY KIDS INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Alabama Power Foundation IncAL34.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Women's Foundation of Alabama · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · The Long Lewis Foundation · Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · United Ways of Alabama · Paths for Success Foundation · River Region United Way · Education Freedom Alabama · Alfa Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alabama Partnership for Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alabama Partnership for Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    15report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 374 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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