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Alton B Sturtevant Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of ALTON B STURTEVANT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$435k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASBURY METHODIST CHURCH$9,599
CHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRY OF SOUTH$6,001
MT ZION METHODIST CHURCH$3,000
URBAN MINISTRY$2,000
FIRST UMC OF MONROEVILLE$1,500
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$1,250
MARION MILITARY INSTITUTE$1,000
PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA$1,000
JIMMIE HALE MISSION$1,000
FIRST LIGHT SHELTER$1,000
ALABAMA PUBLIC TELEVISION$550
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$500
CONSUMER REPORTS$500
VESTAVIA HILLS MEN'S GARDEN CLUB$250
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP$250
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 11%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $500 → 18%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $500 → 18%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $500 → 18%URBAN MINISTRY: $2k → 16%URBAN MINISTRY: $750 → 16%URBAN MINISTRY: $500 → 16%FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $500 → 16%URBAN MINISTRY: $250 → 16%UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $500 → 16%UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $100 → 16%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $1k → 16%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $1k → 16%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $1k → 16%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $1k → 16%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $1k → 16%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $1k → 16%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $1k → 16%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $1k → 16%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $1k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $250 → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $250 → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $200 → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $100 → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $100 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Alton B Sturtevant Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Alton B Sturtevant Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$236k · 19 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
11

Total granted

$236k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+7%

Still filing today

47%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalPhilanthropyReligionEnvironmentOther

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

  • FL
    FIRST LIGHT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +93%
  • CR
    CONSUMER REPORTS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2k · revenue +8%
  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME
    5× · 2018–2023 · $2k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $500
  • OF
    Orange Feather Education Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $500
  • TF
    THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +31%

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.

1
United Methodist Children's Home

To provide quality compassionate behavioral healthcare services to children and families of arkansas through a comprehensive continuum of programs which include residential treatment center care, therapeutic group home care, emergency…

Human Services
2
Memphis Union Misson

Memphis union mission exists to glorify god and make disciples of jesus christ by ministering to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of men and women who are homeless or destitute.

Housing & Shelter
3
United Methodist Children's Home of the North Ga Conference Inc

To restore children and families from trauma through jesus christ (see schedule o).

Human Services
4
United Methodist Ministry With Children and Families Inc

Methodist childrens homes seeks to bring restoration to children and youth who have been neglected or abused. by the end of their time with us, we hope to see that they find reconciliation with their biological families, love within an…

Human Services
5
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
6
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
7
The Methodist Hospital

To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.

Health
8
Medical Ministry International Us

The organization supports and establishes health care centers in developing countries with the goal of increasing access to affordable, quality health care. the organization also facilitates project teams that work alongside in-country…

9
Medical Mission International - Usa

To relieve and alleviate human suffering, misery, poverty, sickness, and distress throughout the world by providing emergency medical relief, funding, and support.

Religion
10
Challenge Ministries Us

The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.

International
11
Methodist Children's Home

Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.

Human Services
12
Uab Medicine Enterprise

To provide common management of the existing and future healthcare delivery operations (the "joint healthcare operations") of the board of trustees of the university of alabama and the university of alabama health services foundation, p.c.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Methodist Children's Home and the most unlike its peers is Orange Feather Education Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ASBURY METHODIST CHURCH — $104,923 · OtherASBURY METHODIST CHURCHMARION MILITARY INSTITUTE — $40,940 · OtherMARION MILITARY INSTITUTEUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA — $36,600 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA+19 more — $18,035 · Other+19 moreFIRST LIGHT INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesUrban Ministry Inc — $3,500 · Human ServicesUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME — $2,100 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $900 · Human Services+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRY OF SOUTH ALAB ALABAMA — $9,447 · ReligionDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION — $8,986 · Housing & ShelterPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $5,554 · InternationalCONSUMER REPORTS INC — $2,345 · Public BenefitST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $950 · Health
Other$200,498Human Services$16,000Religion$9,447Housing & Shelter$8,986International$5,554Public Benefit$2,345Health$950

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRY OF SOUTH ALAB ALABAMA — $9,447 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC — $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION — $8,986 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $5,554 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Ministry Inc — $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC — $2,345 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME — $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQuarterbacking Children's Health Foundation — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRY OF SOUTH ALAB ALABAMA
  • Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION
  • Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC
  • Who funds Urban Ministry Inc
  • Who funds CONSUMER REPORTS INC
  • Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC
  • Who funds Orange Feather Education Foundation Inc
  • Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds Vestavia Hills Mens Garden Club Inc
  • Who funds University of Idaho Foundation Inc
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY
  • Who funds Quarterbacking Children's Health 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.

The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation · Stephens Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Nolen Family Foundation · The Robert and Lois Luckie Charitable Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Navigate Affordable Housing Partners Inc · Robert R Meyer 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 Alton B Sturtevant Family Foundation Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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