How much does B Stephen Schloss Foundation give?

B Stephen Schloss Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $35,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does B Stephen Schloss Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Youth Development (15%), Philanthropy (14%).

Who are B Stephen Schloss Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($33k), Capri Community Film Society Inc ($11k), Alabama Shakespeare Festival ($10k).

Does B Stephen Schloss Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does B Stephen Schloss Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as B Stephen Schloss Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc, The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc, The J K Lowder Family Foundation.

Where is B Stephen Schloss Foundation based?

B Stephen Schloss Foundation is based in AL.

B Stephen Schloss Foundation

B Stephen Schloss Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k22 grants · $25k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$437k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
CHILD PROTECT	$1,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE RIVER REGION	$1,000
HOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES	$1,000
MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING	$1,000
VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY	$1,000
MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES	$1,000
FAMILY SUNSHINE CENTER	$1,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE	$1,000
VENISON PROVISIONS	$1,000

02The need

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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$230k · 37 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Total granted

$230k

$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+8%

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

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 +8%
SM
SOLDIERS MEMORIAL FUND
one grant, 2019 · $500
FV
FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -18%

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.

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

Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce

Community and economic development

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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,…

—

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

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

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

Leadership Montgomery Inc

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

Public Benefit

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…

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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

Alabama Bankers Association Inc

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

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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

Montgomery General Health Care System Inc

None

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery; 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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

28/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$178,092Education$38,750Philanthropy$28,200Arts & Culture$24,455Human Services$11,625Crime & Legal$4,500Health$3,275

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

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.

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.

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

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 B Stephen Schloss Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from B Stephen Schloss Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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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, 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.

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