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Arlington Partners Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of ARLINGTON PARTNERS CHARITABLE 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $396k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WRIGHT FAMILY DONOR ADVISED FUND | $129,245 |
| BLACK FAMILY DONOR ADVISED FUND | $104,756 |
| HIGHLANDS COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| GRIFFIN FAMILY DONOR ADVISED FUND | $62,112 |
| CHRIST HEALTH CENTER | $48,045 |
| CHURCH OF THE HIGHLANDS | $22,998 |
| COME AND SEE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NEW LIFE CHURCH | $14,000 |
| ROOKER FAMILY FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,644 |
| ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER | $2,778 |
| VAPOR 12TH MAN PROGRAM 4 BOYS | $1,884 |
| RAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 6 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2017–2024 · $657k · revenue +134%
- WUWOODLAWN UNITED INC6× · 2018–2023 · $230k · revenue +23%
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- ATADVANCING THE MOVEMENT ANOTHER 50 YEARSone grant, 2019 · $50k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $35k
- UAUAB ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $30k
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 support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
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.
To glorify god by providing a quality, christ-centered education which challenges students and teachers to maximize their potential so that graduates are prepared to further their education while becoming productive christian citizens.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.
To empower adults in south memphis to break cycles of unemployment, establish economic stability, reconcile relationships, and restore dignity through knowledge, resources, and skills by the power of jesus christ.
Birmingham Promise supports and prepares every Birmingham City School student in achieving economic security, mobility, and prosperity by providing connections to high-quality work experiences and last-dollar tuition scholarships
The primary mission of the alabama policy institute, inc. is to provide information to the people of alabama about primarily statewide legislative activity, and to promote and defend policies that preserve the principles of free markets,…
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian Home for Children and the most unlike its peers is Pearl Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
87 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. 87 of the 154 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Christ Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS ↗
- Who funds MANNA MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds KRASL ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Plumline Inc ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds Vapor Sports Ministries ↗
- Who funds Evangelical Christian School of Memphis Inc ↗
- Who funds KultureCity ↗
- Who funds Endeavor Atlanta 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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · The Hackney 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 Arlington Partners Charitable 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.
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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