· Private foundation
Alfa Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k66 grants · $178k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $389k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $945k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALABAMA FARMERS AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION | $944,500 |
| KALEIDOSCOPE | $100,000 |
| ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA | $25,000 |
| NORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC | $25,000 |
| RIVER REGION UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| RIVER REGION UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| RIVER REGION UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AUTAUGA COUNTY HERITAGE ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| KALEIDOSCOPE | $18,241 |
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 (FY20–25, $271k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +22% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
113 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- AFALABAMA FARMERS AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +26% · 50% of their budget
- ASALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL6× · 2020–2025 · $353k · revenue +73%
- TLTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TWTHE WORLD GAMES 2022one grant, 2022 · $166k
- SASCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCone grant, 2022 · $123k
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - COLLEGE OF AGRICULTUREone grant, 2022 · $36k
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.
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
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.
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
To advocate the importance of higher education in bettering the lives of people in alabama.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
Alabama sports foundation exists to optimize the athlete experience through performance, education, innovation, and implementation. alabama sports foundation does this with each individual by partnering with teams, clubs, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama and the most unlike its peers is Jeep Sullivan's Outdoor Adventures 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 21 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
142 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. 142 of the 228 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ALABAMA FARMERS AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER REGION UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds TWG 2021 BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds FAULKNER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Alabama Autism Assistance Program ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA PALS ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION OF MONTGOMERY ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds The Hope Institute ↗
- Who funds COACHSAFELY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JIMMY RANE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds LIFE ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds BUTTERFLY BRIDGE CHILD ADVOCACY CEN ↗
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 Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · The Long Lewis Foundation · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Goodwyn Mills & Cawood 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 Alfa 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.