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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.

$350k
Granted FY2022
14
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Health$191kYouth Development$90kHuman Services$59kEducation$50kHousing & Shelter$40kRecreation & Sports$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$6k
02FY2022 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $326,008, the rows itemized in this filing. The $350,033 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,025 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $148k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$18,470
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTHSERVE$50,000
LITERARY COUNCIL$50,000
DIAPER BANK$50,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$22,675
MARCH OF DIMES$22,675
THE BELL CENTER$18,470
ALABAMA KIDNEY FOUNDATION$18,470
UNITED ABILITY$18,470
RED MOUNTAIN PARK$15,675
ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND$15,675
AUTISM SOCIETY OF ALABAMA$15,675
MAKE A WISH ALABAMA$9,408
KID ONE TRANSPORT$9,408
CRISIS CENTER (BIRMINGHAM)$9,407
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DIAPER BANK: $50k → 7%CRISIS CENTER (BIRMINGHAM): $9k → 16%MARCH OF DIMES: $23k → 7%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $23k → 8%ALABAMA KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $18k → 7%YOUTHSERVE: $50k → 16%CAMP SMILE A MILE: $40k → 16%THREE HOTS AND A COT: $40k → 16%UNITED ABILITY: $18k → 16%RED MOUNTAIN PARK: $16k → 16%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $40k → 16%THE BELL CENTER: $18k → 16%CITY OF FULTONDALE: $6k → 16%LITERARY COUNCIL: $50k → 16%AUTISM SOCIETY OF ALABAMA: $16k → 16%MAKE A WISH ALABAMA: $9k → 16%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.
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 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
Nami Alabama Inc

Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.

Health
2
Alabama Partnership for Children

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.

Education
3
Aids Alabama Inc

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.

Health
4
Mothers Milk Bank of Alabama

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.

Human Services
5
Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal
6
Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Ala

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.

Health
7
The Children's Hospital of Alabama

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…

Health
8
Service Dogs Alabama Inc

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…

Animals
9
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
10
Voices for Alabama's Children

Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
11
Montgomery Cancer Wellness Foundation

To provide supportive services, educational services, and assistance to cancer patients throughout central alabama, including those patients who lack the resources

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SMILE-A-MILE: $40,000 · HealthSMILE-A-MILEMARCH OF DIMES INC: $22,675 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INCCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $22,675 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONUNITED ABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $18,470 · HealthUNITED ABILITY FOUNDATION INCTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $18,470 · HealthTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRA…Alabama Kidney Foundation Inc: $18,470 · HealthAlabama Kidney Foundation IncALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUND: $15,675 · HealthALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUNDAUTISM SUPPORT OF ALABAMA INC: $15,675 · HealthAUTISM SUPPORT OF ALABAMA INCMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $9,408 · HealthDIAPER BANK: $50,000 · OtherDIAPER BANKBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham Inc: $40,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of Gr…RED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATION: $15,675 · OtherRED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATIONCRISIS CENTER INC: $9,407 · OtherCRISIS CENTER INCIndividual grant recipient: $6,120 · OtherLITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $50,000 · EducationLITERACY COU…YOUTHSERVE INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHSERVE I…THREE HOTS & A COT: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterTHREE HOTS…KID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC: $9,408 · Human Services
Health$181,518Other$121,202Education$50,000Youth Development$50,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Human Services$9,408

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 budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetYOUTHSERVE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHREE HOTS & A COT: $40,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetSMILE-A-MILE: $40,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $22,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $22,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $18,470 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $18,470 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAlabama Kidney Foundation Inc: $18,470 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATION: $15,675 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUND: $15,675 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAUTISM SUPPORT OF ALABAMA INC: $15,675 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetKID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC: $9,408 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $9,408 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRISIS CENTER INC: $9,407 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Protective Life Found…The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Hill Crest Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…Robert R Meyer Founda…United Way of Central…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…The Maynard Nexsen Fo…Walker Area Community…
Protective Life FoundationAL26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Amfirst Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amfirst Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Amfirst Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Amfirst 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 18 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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