How much did ALPHA FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of ALPHA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

educationgirlsfound

2019

—

2020

—

2021

museumnorth

2022

rescue unithuntsvillemad

2023

rescue unithope

2024

rescue unithope

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $12k
$10k–50k24 grants · $487k
$50k–250k22 grants · $1.8M
$250k+1 grant · $600k

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$58M

Total assets

Largest grants

HUDSON-ALPHA FOUNDATION$600,000
LINCOLN VILLAGE MINISTRY$220,000
WELLSTONE INC$150,000
DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION$100,000
LAND TRUST OF N AL$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RIVER VALLEY$100,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$100,000
SALVATION ARMY$100,000
CHADASHA FOUNDATION$100,000
NATIONAL CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER$100,000
STILL SERVING VETERANS$80,000
TEAM RUBICON$75,000
HSVMAD CO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY$75,000
FOOD BANK OF N AL$50,000
CORNERSTONE INITIATIVE$50,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $815k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$17M · 58 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.

58 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$17M

$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%

+52%

Still filing today

41%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $499k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthInternationalHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

DR
DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION
6× · 2019–2024 · $800k · revenue +19%
NC
NATIONAL CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +95%
SS
STILL SERVING VETERANS
8× · 2017–2024 · $733k · revenue +60%

Funded once

HA
HUDSON ALPHA INSTITUTE
one grant, 2020 · $500k
LV
LINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +160%
CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $280k

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

04Your field

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.

Good Samaritan Health Clinic of Cullman Inc

Provide direct care medical service free of charge

Health

Dale County Rescue Mission

The Rescue Missions Purpose is to provide food, housing, transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients. Those served are spiritually ministered.

Human Services

Chilton County Emergency Center Inc

To provide food, clothing, lodging,medical & dental, prescription drugs, and travel for the needy of chilton county, alabama.

Human Services

Calvary Rescue Mission

Calvary rescue mission is a haven for the homeless in memphis. for all time, it has been to reach out and minister to the needs of each person regardless or race, color, or creed. we furnish a clean shower, clothing, bed, along with the…

Human Services

North Alabama Coalition for the Homeless

To provide the coordination of community agencies and to engage in fundraising efforts to effectively reduce homelessness on north alabama for children, adults and families

Housing & Shelter

Mississippi Christian Family

To provide rehabilitative social services to the distressed, handicapped and underprivileged.

—

Greater Chattanooga Christian Services Inc

Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling

Human Services

Central North Al Health Service Inc

Provide primary health care to mostly low-income and underserved persons.

Health

University of Alabama Health Services

Coordinate and deliver patient care in a group practice setting.

Health

House of Mercy Incorporated

To provide clothing, food, and shelter to homeless and abandoned individuals and families.

—

Community of Hope Health Clinic

Provide free medical services for uninsured residents of shelby county, alabama.

Health

Victim Services of Cullman Inc

Shelter, support and counseling of abuse victims.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cornerstone Initiative and the most unlike its peers is Convoy of Hope. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 20 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/52

the rest of the field

13%

463/3,541

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.

05the grantee network

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/48

Grantees still filing

37/48

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$15,144,846Health$1,216,391Housing & Shelter$1,195,000International$890,000Human Services$854,900Public Benefit$733,000Philanthropy$675,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation of Greater HuntsvilleAL81.6× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The I3 Cares Foundation · Employees of Community Fund · Strong Family Foundation dated December · The Propst Foundation · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Huntsville Rehabilitation · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · John a Jurenko Et Al Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family

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 organisation ALPHA 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CAMP TO BELONG ALABAMA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 822924091 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CAMP TO BELONG ALABAMA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 97% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Alpha Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alpha Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ALPHA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Alpha Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ALPHA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Alpha Foundation?

More from the funding graph