· Private foundation
Altecstyslinger Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k126 grants · $285k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $693k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+10 grants · $6.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $1,271,000 |
| UAB | $1,010,500 |
| SAINT BERNARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| PROSPER BIRMINGHAM LLC | $645,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $349,500 |
| ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $250,000 |
| CONVERGENT TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE CENTER | $250,000 |
| THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION | $250,000 |
| UNITED WAY CENTENNIAL CAMPAIGN | $200,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP & TUITION SERVICES INC | $145,000 |
| GRACE HOUSE | $105,000 |
| MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| JOURNEY FORWARD | $100,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $742k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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 +23% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
223 repeat relationships — 117 still active in FY2024, 106 since wound down; 76 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; $1.5M 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
Southern Methodist University3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +3%- CDCOOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC4× · 2019–2022 · $885k · revenue +32%
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $845k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- PBPROSPER BIRMINGHAM LLC - BIRMINGHAM PROMISEone grant, 2021 · $1.5M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $879k
- BUBROWN UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF ADVANCEMENTone grant, 2021 · $750k
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 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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
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.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Community and economic development
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 Salesforce Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
339 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. 339 of the 644 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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds I3 ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK ↗
- Who funds A G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Dunn-French Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno 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 Altecstyslinger 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.
- Journey Forward Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% 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.