· Public charity
Alabama Arise
ALABAMA ARISE is a statewide, member-led organization advancing public policies to improve the lives of alabamians who are marginalized by poverty.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $100,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $120,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,000 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A BETTER PLACE | $50,000 |
| ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE | $20,000 |
| WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 33%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- TKTHE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +68%
- GBGreater Birmingham Ministries3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +9%
- BABAY AREA WOMEN COALITION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +205% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- AAAIDS ALABAMA INCone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
- ACALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE UNITEDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +36%
- HAHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMAone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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 advocate for and promote access to health care for all alabamians.
Social services
Out mission is to equip, inform and empower Black families with information on accessing a high quality k-12 education
The mission of the Southern Black Policy and Advocacy Network is to improve health outcomes and to reduce social and economic disparities impacting Black communities living in the U.S. South.
Free and sliding scale reproductive, maternal and sexual health clinic providing stigma-free, patient-centered care regardless of insurance, income, or documentation status. See Schedule O for full mission statement.
To provide education, opportunities and support services in an effort to prevent teen pregnancy.
The State of Black Arizona leads the production, synthesis, and socialization of actionable data and insights for all Arizonans, focusing on the Black community. We ensure that the factors leading to inequitable outcomes are identified,…
combat the effects of structural racism within maternal and infoant health to advance black birth outcomes
Faith in action alabamas mission is to honor god by achieving systemic change through faith-based community organizing to create pathways of opportunity for all alabamians
Promote fairer public policies toward low-income Alabamians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Foundation of Alabama and the most unlike its peers is No More Martyrs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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.
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 AIDS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER BALANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Birmingham Ministries ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA WOMEN COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Alabama Institute for Social Justice ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE UNITED ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds BAMA KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds No More Martyrs ↗
- Who funds UNITED WOMEN OF COLOR ↗
- Who funds VOICES for Alabama's Children ↗
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: Marguerite Casey Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Better Place Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Women's Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Civil Justice Foundation · The Black Belt Community Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Forward · Strain Foundation · Southern Partners Fund 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 Alabama Arise 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.