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B Stephen Schloss Foundation

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.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$73kYouth Development$45kPhilanthropy$40kEducation$39kArts & Culture$25kHuman Services$18kHealth$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$437k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE BETH ORKAHL MONTGOMERY$10,200
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TUKABATCHEE AREA COUNCIL$4,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL ALA$3,000
WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FDN$2,600
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$2,500
LOGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,000
FAMILY SUNSHINE CENTER$1,000
CHILD PROTECT$1,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE RIVER REGION$1,000
HOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES$1,000
MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES$1,000
MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING$1,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$1,000
VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY$1,000
VENISON PROVISIONS$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILDBRIDGE INC: $250 → 18%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $6k → 18%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $1k → 18%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $1k → 18%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $500 → 18%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $500 → 18%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $275 → 18%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $50 → 18%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $50 → 18%BRANTWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME: $500 → 18%BRANTWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME: $500 → 18%BRANTWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME: $500 → 18%BRANTWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME: $500 → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$230k · 37 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
16

Total granted

$230k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

65%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
Arts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +50%
  • CC
    CAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +63%
  • AS
    ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    5× · 2017–2023 · $10k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • NF
    NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • FV
    FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -18%
  • SM
    SOLDIERS MEMORIAL FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $500

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

04Your field

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.

1
Alabama Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics

Obtain optimal health & well-being for all children in alabama, and to provide educational and practice support for its membership so the highest quality of medical care can be achieved.

Health
2
Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce

Community and economic development

3
Alabama Farmers Federation

The mission of the alabama farmers federation, a nation's leading farm organization, is to ensure unlimited opportunities for our rural and agricultural community, through active, well-informed members, emphasing education, research,…

4
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
5
Montgomery Hospice Inc

To gentle the journey through serious illness and loss with skill and compassion. to bring comfort by providing compassionate, professional care to community residents who are facing serious illness and loss. to provide dignity for the…

Human Services
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
Leadership Montgomery Inc

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

Public Benefit
8
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

9
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
10
Alabama Bankers Association Inc

To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.

11
Montgomery County Community Foundation

The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…

Philanthropy
12
Montgomery General Health Care System Inc

None

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesLocal History MuseumsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%8%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr17%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr12%38%35–55yr17%24%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/42
the rest of the field
14%
3,156/22,737

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.

04the grantee network

39 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
27/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEMPLE BETH ORKAHL MONTGOMERY — $72,317 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ORKAHL MONTGOMERYBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TUKABATCHEE AREA COUNCIL — $41,125 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TUKABATCHEE AREA COUNCILTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $26,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC+37 more — $38,650 · Other+37 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $32,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER …HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $3,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLE…VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY — $2,000 · Education+1 more — $1,250 · EducationCENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $20,900 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL ALA…KALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $4,000 · PhilanthropyKALISPELL R…WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,300 · PhilanthropyWHITEFISH C…CAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY INC — $10,680 · Arts & CultureCAPRI COM…ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $9,500 · Arts & CultureALABAMA S…CLOVERDALE PLAYHOUSE INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureCLOVERDAL…MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION — $1,500 · Arts & CultureMONTGOMER…NORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $275 · Arts & CultureMONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING — $9,375 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $250 · Human ServicesChild Protect Inc — $4,500 · Crime & LegalMEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES — $2,750 · HealthATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC — $425 · Health+1 more — $100 · Health
Other$178,092Education$38,750Philanthropy$28,200Arts & Culture$24,455Human Services$11,625Crime & Legal$4,500Health$3,275

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $26,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetCENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $20,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY INC — $10,680 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING — $9,375 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetChild Protect Inc — $4,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC SAFETY INSURANCE FUND INC — $3,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES — $2,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVALIANT CROSS ACADEMY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLOVERDALE PLAYHOUSE INC — $1,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION — $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF ELMORE COUNTY INC — $1,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIntermountain Deaconess Childrens Services — $1,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC — $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSA Shooting Inc — $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC — $425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET TISHA RHODES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR — $275 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD BRIDGE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH COASTAL GEORGIA INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FIGHTER ACES ASSOCIATION — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANDMARKS FOUNDATION OF MONTGOMERY — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
  • Who funds CENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING
  • Who funds Child Protect Inc
  • Who funds KALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds PUBLIC SAFETY INSURANCE FUND INC
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC
  • Who funds MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC
  • Who funds VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds HOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds CLOVERDALE PLAYHOUSE INC
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ELMORE COUNTY INC
  • Who funds Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY INC
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation
  • Who funds NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA
  • Who funds HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds USA Shooting Inc
  • Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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.

Arthur M Britton Foundation IncAL38.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · The Landa Fund · The Hobbs Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Samuel L Schloss Family Foundation Tr Schlossburke K Trustee · John and Joyce Caddell Foundation · Loeb Family Foundation Inc · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · We3 Fund

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 B Stephen Schloss 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to B Stephen Schloss Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to B Stephen Schloss 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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