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Arthur M Britton 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.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$638kReligion$445kHealth$379kArts & Culture$122kPhilanthropy$118kHuman Services$107kPublic Benefit$21kFood & Nutrition$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $52k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$52,450
YMCA$11,200
MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES$10,200
SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA$10,100
VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY$10,000
RIVER REGION UNITED WAY$10,000
PARTNERS IN CATHOLIC EDUCATION$7,500
MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$5,200
ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL$4,500
BAPTIST HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$4,000
RESPITE FOR ALL FOUNDATION$3,500
EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS$3,000
CANCER WELLNESS FOUNDATION$3,000
ADULLAM INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES$2,500
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOPE HEALS: $250 → 14%BIG OAK RANCH: $100 → 13%LIFE ON WHEELS: $100 → 18%BRANTWOOD CHILDRENS HOME: $200 → 18%BRANTWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME: $75 → 18%RISE UP FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%MERCY HOUSE: $3k → 18%YMCA: $26k → 18%YMCA: $26k → 18%YMCA: $11k → 18%YMCA: $11k → 18%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $6k → 18%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $3k → 18%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $2k → 18%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $2k → 18%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $2k → 18%YMCA: $1k → 18%YMCA: $1k → 18%YMCA: $1k → 18%YMCA: $1k → 18%YMCA: $1k → 18%CHILDREN'S HOPE: $500 → 18%FRIENDSHIP MISSION: $3k → 18%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
RI
CA
VA
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NC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 60 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

60 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
77

Total granted

$1.7M
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+40%

Still filing today

52%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureReligionAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VC
    VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +13%
  • Y
    YMCA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +42%
  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $72k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • LC
    LIGHTHOUSE COUNSELING CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • MC
    MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • JH
    JOHN HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Mission Mississippi

To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.

Civil Rights
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
Leadership Montgomery Inc

To train, educate, and gather community leaders to improve the welfare of the montgomery, alabama community

Public Benefit
4
The University Foundation

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.

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5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Baptist Missionary Association Theological Seminary

The purpose of the baptist missionary association theological seminary is to provide accredited undergraduate and graduate theological education for equipping individuals for christian service and leadership roles.

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9
Agape of Central Alabama Inc

As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.

Human Services
10
Refuge 1212 Inc

Red mountain grace is a not-for-profit organization dedicated as a place of refuge for out-of-town patients and caregivers that are receiving extended medical treatment. our foundation is in christ, our heart is for birmingham.

Health
11
Woman's Missionary Union Foundation

The woman's missionary union foundation was organized for the purpose of motivating and facilitating the making of gifts, donations, and benefactions for the advancement, promotion and maintenance of woman's missionary union and the…

Human Services
12
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Dance Theatre; the most unlike its peers is International Xchange Organization. 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

63 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. 63 of the 150 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
43/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $316,675 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHMONTGOMERY CATHOLIC PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $46,450 · OtherMONTGOMERY CATHOLIC PREPARATORY SCHOOLBAPTIST HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $44,050 · OtherBAPTIST HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONOUR LADY OF THE MOUNTAIN CHURCH: $40,500 · OtherPARTNERS IN CATHOLIC EDUCATION: $38,500 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE COUNSELING CENTER INC: $30,000 · Other+102 more: $289,775 · Other+102 moreJUDSON COLLEGE: $280,100 · EducationJUDSON COLLEGEVALIANT CROSS ACADEMY: $90,150 · EducationVALIANT CROSS ACADEMYMONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $67,700 · EducationMONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+5 more: $18,400 · EducationMEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $102,600 · HealthMAGIC MOMENTS: $16,500 · Health+7 more: $9,850 · HealthALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $50,500 · Arts & CultureMONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $38,800 · Arts & CultureALABAMA DANCE THEATRE: $17,850 · Arts & CultureMONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET TISHA RHODES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: $11,950 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,450 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $72,150 · PhilanthropyRIVER REGION UNITED WAY: $40,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyYMCA: $80,883 · Human ServicesMONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $12,000 · Human ServicesRise Up Foundation Inc: $5,150 · Human Services+8 more: $9,225 · Human ServicesSERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC: $101,200 · Animals+3 more: $2,125 · Animals
Other$805,950Education$496,350Health$128,950Arts & Culture$121,550Philanthropy$112,650Human Services$107,258Animals$103,325

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUDSON COLLEGE: $280,100 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $102,600 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetSERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC: $101,200 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetVALIANT CROSS ACADEMY: $90,150 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA: $80,883 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $72,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $67,700 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $50,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER REGION UNITED WAY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $38,800 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetALABAMA DANCE THEATRE: $17,850 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMAGIC MOMENTS: $16,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $15,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY INC: $13,850 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $12,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET TISHA RHODES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: $11,950 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $11,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER REGION TRAILS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetRise Up Foundation Inc: $5,150 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetElon University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC SAFETY INSURANCE FUND INC: $5,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC: $3,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRESPITE FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJOHN ED MATHISON LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP MISSION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOVERDALE PLAYHOUSE INC: $2,250 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,925 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Xchange Organization: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHATS MY CHILD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HIGHLAND FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAULKNER UNIVERSITY: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAUNCH MISSION: $750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOPE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetONWARD CAMPUS MINISTRIES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEMA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHighlands Biological Foundation Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIS VESSEL MINISTRIES: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC: $275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope Heals Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds JUDSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds YMCA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RIVER REGION UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA DANCE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds MAGIC MOMENTS ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET TISHA RHODES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RIVER REGION TRAILS INC ↗
  • Who funds Rise Up Foundation Inc ↗

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.

Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation IncAL55.6× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · Alfa Foundation · John and Joyce Caddell Foundation · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · B Stephen Schloss Foundation · The Landa Fund · Crum Family Charitable Foundation · The Hobbs Foundation

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc 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 150 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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