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Ann B Hearin Foundation
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $102,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $107,400 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT ACADEMY OF MOBILE | $15,000 |
| MOBILE BALLET | $15,000 |
| AZALEA CITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $15,000 |
| MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART | $15,000 |
| MOBILE ARTS COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| MOBILE SYMPHONY INC | $12,000 |
| EASTERN SHORE ART CENTER | $10,000 |
| FAIRHOPE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,400 |
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 (FY25–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- MMMOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC2× · 2024–2025 · $26k · revenue +17%
- MSMobile Symphony Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $24k · revenue -15%
- ESEASTERN SHORE ART ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- GCGULF COAST SAXOPHONE ENSEMBLE COone grant, 2024 · $11k
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 cultivate the arts in Jefferson County and the State of Alabama.
To coordinate and to encourage cultural endeavors and to promote knowledge and appreciation of the arts and humanities in southeast alabama.
The mission of the arts association in newton county is to encourage youth and adults in the community to participate in the arts both as audience and as artists and to present world-class artists to all the citizens of the metro atlanta…
To advocate for and provide educational opportunitiesin the arts
The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…
The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…
The mission is to provide enriching and educational experiences for the communities of the region through the promotion and support of artists.
To entertain, educate and inspire a diverse and expanding regional audiences in the arts, sciences and humanities.
To make savannah a destination for art and culture in the southeast by supporting established and emerging artists, engaging a diverse community with creative programming, and developing awareness and appreciation of the arts.
Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County Inc serves as an umbrella organization that supports the arts through leadership, advocacy, funding, programs and education.
The mission of alabama contemporary is to support cultural production, provide space for courageous conversations that shape identity, and seed growth in the greater creative economy. we support living artists, and through our educational,…
The organization strives to bring art of all kinds to the people of columbia county, arkansas
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mobile Arts Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Azalea City Center for the Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds MOBILE BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Azalea City Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Covenant Academy of Mobile ↗
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: J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Joy M & James Grodnick Charitable Founda Tion · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Ann B Hearin 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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