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Alpha Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$4.8MHuman Services$3.5MHousing & Shelter$3.3MHealth$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.6MCrime & Legal$1.3MEnvironment$1.0MInternational$650kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
8
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUDSON-ALPHA FOUNDATION$600,000
LINCOLN VILLAGE MINISTRY$220,000
WELLSTONE INC$150,000
SALVATION ARMY$100,000
CHADASHA FOUNDATION$100,000
NATIONAL CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER$100,000
LAND TRUST OF N AL$100,000
DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION$100,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RIVER VALLEY$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
ENABLE MADISON COUNTY$50,000
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%BIG OAK RANCH: $50k → 13%COMMITTEE ON CHURCH COOPERATION: $10k → 13%KIDS TO LOVE: $50k → 11%KIDS TO LOVE: $20k → 11%KIDS TO LOVE: $20k → 11%KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%KIDS TO LOVE: $20k → 11%AGAPE OF NORTH ALABAMA: $11k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $50k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $40k → 11%VILLLAGE OF PROMISE: $30k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $25k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $25k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $20k → 11%FIRST STOP INC: $75k → 11%FIRST STOP INC: $50k → 11%EIGHTH STREET COMMUNITY: $42k → 11%FIRST STOP INC: $15k → 11%305 8TH STREET: $10k → 11%305 8TH STREET: $10k → 11%305 8TH STREET: $10k → 11%FIRST STOP INC: $10k → 11%NEXT STEP FARMS: $50k → 11%NEXT STEP FARMS: $25k → 11%NEXT STEP FARMS: $17k → 11%NEXT STEP FARMS: $15k → 11%FOSTERING CONNECTIONS: $10k → 11%ENABLE MADISON COUNTY: $50k → 11%ENABLE MADISON COUNTY: $50k → 11%HEART OF THE VALLEY YMCA: $50k → 11%HUNTSVILLE COMMUNITY OF HOPE: $50k → 11%HEART OF THE VALLEY YMCA: $25k → 11%CHRISTMAS CHARITIES YEAR ROUND: $20k → 11%HUNTSVILLE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $5k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

OH
CA
MO
VA
TN
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 55 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
37

Total granted

$17M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+31%

Still filing today

56%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $449k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • LV
    LINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +86%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +95%
  • DR
    DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $800k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • HA
    HUDSON ALPHA INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $280k
  • FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -45%
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
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
2
Good Samaritan Health Clinic of Cullman Inc

Provide direct care medical service free of charge

Health
3
Chattahoochee Hospice Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

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.

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5
Central North Al Health Service Inc

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

Health
6
Hope for All Gulf Coast

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
8
Community of Hope Health Clinic

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

Health
9
Christian Mission Centers Inc

The christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.

—
10
Dale County Rescue Mission

The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.

Human Services
11
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 of race, color, or creed. we furnish a clean shower, clothing, bed, along with the…

Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cornerstone Initiative; 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.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 107 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/59
Grantees still filing
35/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $1,247,400 · OtherSALVATION ARMYNATIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $800,000 · OtherNATIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HSV: $511,000 · OtherHUDSON ALPHA INSTITUTE: $500,000 · OtherHUNTSVILLE BOTANICAL GARDENS: $475,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $375,000 · OtherGENEROSITY FOUNDATION: $525,000 · OtherGENEROSITY FOUNDATIONCOOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE: $500,000 · Other+62 more: $4,850,446 · Other+62 moreHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION: $4,154,000 · EducationHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION+4 more: $287,000 · Education+4 moreLINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION: $1,570,000 · Housing & ShelterLINCOLN VILLA…DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC: $800,000 · Housing & ShelterDOWNTOWN RESC…HIS WAY RECOVERY CENTER: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterWELLSTONE INC: $450,000 · HealthTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $310,391 · HealthHEALS INC: $145,000 · HealthTHE COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC: $100,000 · HealthNew Hope Children's Clinic: $80,000 · HealthTHE COMMUNITY FREE DENTAL CLINIC: $80,000 · Health+4 more: $61,000 · HealthKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $280,000 · Human ServicesVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $190,000 · Human ServicesFirst Stop Inc: $150,000 · Human ServicesNEXT STEP FARMS: $107,000 · Human ServicesCARE ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR THE AGING AND HOMEBOUND OF MADISON COUNTY: $100,000 · Human ServicesHUNTSVILLE COMMUITY OF HOPE: $90,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA: $75,000 · Human ServicesEIGHTH STREET COMMUNITY: $72,000 · Human ServicesBIG OAK RANCH INC: $50,000 · Human Services+5 more: $55,900 · Human ServicesCHADASHA FOUNDATION INC: $575,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $250,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $50,000 · International+1 more: $15,000 · InternationalSTILL SERVING VETERANS: $733,000 · Public Benefit
Other$9,783,846Education$4,441,000Housing & Shelter$2,465,000Health$1,226,391Human Services$1,169,900International$890,000Public Benefit$733,000

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 budgetHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION: $4,154,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetLINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION: $1,570,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $800,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC: $800,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetSTILL SERVING VETERANS: $733,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetCHADASHA FOUNDATION INC: $575,000 over 7y, 64% of budgetGENEROSITY FOUNDATION: $525,000 over 6y, 87% of budgetCOOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE: $500,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetWELLSTONE INC: $450,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $310,391 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $280,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORNERSTONE INITIATIVE: $200,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $190,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetFirst Stop Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetHEALS INC: $145,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCAMP TO BELONG ALABAMA: $140,000 over 2y, 97% of budgetCrisis Services of North Alabama Inc: $131,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetMADISON VISIONARY PARTNERS INC: $125,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetFREE 2 TEACH FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetNEXT STEP FARMS: $107,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetCARE ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR THE AGING AND HOMEBOUND OF MADISON COUNTY: $100,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC: $100,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetPARKINSONS DYNAMICS: $100,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetHIS WAY RECOVERY CENTER: $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHUNTSVILLE COMMUITY OF HOPE: $90,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetNew Hope Children's Clinic: $80,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FREE DENTAL CLINIC: $80,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEIGHTH STREET COMMUNITY: $72,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTHE RILEY BEHAVIORAL AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCAP AND GOWN PROJECT: $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetThe Museum of Information Explosion: $50,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF MADISON COUNTY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $33,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLINICA MEDICA MOSCATI: $30,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHE ELM FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetChristmas Charities Year Round: $20,400 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetSERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHERAPY PARTNERS INC: $11,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAGAPE OF NORTH ALABAMA INC: $10,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBLOUNT HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON CHURCH COOPERATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINSIDE OUT STUDIO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Jane K Lowe Chari…The I3 Cares Foundati…The Daniel Foundation…Wallace E Kirkpatrick…Employees Community F…Huntsville Rehabilita…Parker Griffith Famil…John a Jurenko Et Al …Strong Family Foundat…The Propst FoundationThe Beard-Young Famil…
Community Foundation of Greater HuntsvilleAL87.7× affinity41 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 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

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 Alpha Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alpha Foundation. 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to Alpha Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alpha Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 107 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-PF 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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