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Amfirst Foundation
The AMFIRST FOUNDATION strives to live out the credit union philosophy of people helping people by making impactful investments in charitable organizations in our communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $326,008 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $350,033 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,025 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITERARY COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| DIAPER BANK | $50,000 |
| YOUTHSERVE | $50,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $22,675 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $22,675 |
| UNITED ABILITY | $18,470 |
| THE BELL CENTER | $18,470 |
| ALABAMA KIDNEY FOUNDATION | $18,470 |
| ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND | $15,675 |
| RED MOUNTAIN PARK | $15,675 |
| AUTISM SOCIETY OF ALABAMA | $15,675 |
| KID ONE TRANSPORT | $9,408 |
| MAKE A WISH ALABAMA | $9,408 |
| CRISIS CENTER (BIRMINGHAM) | $9,407 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 79% of your 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.
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.
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.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
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.
Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.
Oversee and facilitate the collection, pasteurization, and distribution of human milk. Provide training and education for healthcare providers and community members about the health importance of human milk for neonates and infants.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
Service dogs alabama trains and provides service dogs for people with medical and psychiatric disablilites as well as intervention facility dogs. service dogs alabama provides recipients with confidence and independence enabling them to…
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.
To provide supportive services, educational services, and assistance to cancer patients throughout central alabama, including those patients who lack the resources
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
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 United Ability 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.
16 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. 16 of the 18 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 LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds YOUTHSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham Inc ↗
- Who funds THREE HOTS & A COT ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds Alabama Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds UNITED ABILITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SUPPORT OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUND ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds KID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
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 · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc
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 Amfirst 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.
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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