· Public charity
Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Devel Council Inc
Development and support of conservation and community projects
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 57 grants below total $956,510 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,176,319 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $219,809 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 $10k26 grants · $171k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $428k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $358k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH ALABAMA TRAILS & RECREATION | $107,500 |
| MORGAN COUNTY SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| DECATUR DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY | $100,000 |
| CITY OF DECATUR | $50,000 |
| HARTSELLE CITY SCHOOLS | $29,370 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER | $26,369 |
| LIMROCK-ASPEL VFD | $25,067 |
| JESSE OWNS MUSEUM AND PARK | $25,000 |
| FANTASY PLAYHOUSE CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $25,000 |
| PARKINSON'S DYNAMICS | $25,000 |
| SNEAD STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $20,700 |
| TOWN OF MENTONE | $20,000 |
| TOWN OF EVA | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $15,000 |
| FYFFE POLICE DEPARTMENT | $15,000 |
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, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +48% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 33 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $564k 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
- NANORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $146k · revenue +594%
- OUOAKWOOD UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue +19%
- CHCollinsville Historical Association Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- COCITY OF GUNTERSVILLEone grant, 2023 · $100k
- MCMORGAN COUNTY COMMISSIONone grant, 2021 · $65k
- DDDECATUR DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITYone grant, 2021 · $48k
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.
Volunteer fire department serving the residents of new bethel community in alabama
Preserve the history of shelby county al
To provide firefighting, fire prevention, rescue, haz mat,and first responder emergency medical services to the citizens of madison county, al and surrounding communities. provides safety eduation and awareness.
To train volunteer firefighters and respond to emergency calls within the area. to provide emergency care as necessary to the area based on 911 calls and emergency medical services.
To promote travel and tourism within dekalb county, alabama
The mission of the stapleton fire department is to provide protection of life, property and environment from fires and other emergencies for the community of stapleton.
Assistance to veterans especially in alabama
Fire control
To promote the common interest of those involved in the development & management of rural multi-family housing.
To facilitate implementation of workforce development programs andservices that support economic and job development in the region andthat address the workforce needs of existing businesses and industry.
Volunteer fire department that serves the city of farmington, ms
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Alabama 4-H Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Twickenham Historic Preservation District Associat. 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 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 150 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 NORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH ALABAMA TRAILS AND RECREATION ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds JESSE OWENS MEMORIAL PARK ↗
- Who funds Collinsville Historical Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY EMERGENCY TELEPHONE SERVICE BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER OF AL ↗
- Who funds Fantasy Playhouse Children's Theater ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Alpha Foundation · Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils · Operation Round-Up of Cullman & Winston Counties · The Propst Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · Alfa Foundation · I Car Education Foundation · Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation · The Long Lewis 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 Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Devel Council 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.