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Alpha Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUDSON-ALPHA FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| LINCOLN VILLAGE MINISTRY | $220,000 |
| WELLSTONE INC | $150,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RIVER VALLEY | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $100,000 |
| DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION | $100,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $100,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $100,000 |
| CHADASHA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LAND TRUST OF N AL | $100,000 |
| STILL SERVING VETERANS | $80,000 |
| HSVMAD CO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $75,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF N AL | $50,000 |
| FIRST STOP INC | $50,000 |
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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 13 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $449k 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
- LVLINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +86%
- NCNATIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +95%
- DRDOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $800k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- HAHUDSON ALPHA INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $500k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $280k
FOOD FOR THE POOR INCone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -45%
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.
Social services
Provide direct care medical service free of charge
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Provide primary health care to mostly low-income and underserved persons.
It is the mission of housing first, inc. to secure resources and assets, which lead to community planning to end homelessness through advocacy and community collaboration.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
Provide free medical services for uninsured residents of shelby county, alabama.
The christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
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 of race, color, or creed. we furnish a clean shower, clothing, bed, along with the…
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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cornerstone Initiative and the most unlike its peers is Cook Museum of Natural Science. 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 20 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 107 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 HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds STILL SERVING VETERANS ↗
- Who funds CHADASHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEROSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds WELLSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORNERSTONE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Agape Prison Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds First Stop Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TO BELONG ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds Crisis Services of North Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON VISIONARY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds FREE 2 TEACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEP FARMS ↗
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 Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · The I3 Cares Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Huntsville Rehabilitation Foundation Inc · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · John a Jurenko Et Al Foundation · Strong Family Foundation dated December 1 2012 · The Propst Foundation · The Beard-Young Family 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 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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