· Public charity
Baldwin County Electric Membership Charitable Foundation Inc
Purpose is for the accumulation and disbursement of funds for charitable purposes to individuals and organizations for needs related to the following: food, shelter, clothing, health, environmental, and educational.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of BALDWIN COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP 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.
The 22 grants below total $238,649 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $457,917 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $219,268 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
- Under $10k5 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $202k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEA GLASS INITIATIVE | $20,000 |
| ROBERTSDALE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC | $18,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,779 |
| BALDWIN COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION | $12,500 |
| UNDER HIS WINGS | $12,000 |
| ALABAMA SHERIFF'S YOUTH RANCH | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF S AL | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LITERACY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES | $10,000 |
| PRODISEE PANTRY | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $10,000 |
| THE SHOULDER OF THE GULF COAST | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $390k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +34% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- PPProdisee Pantry Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +113%
- UWUNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +4%
- ASALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- BCBALDWIN COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOone grant, 2019 · $20k
- NBNORTH BALDWIN INFIRMARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -36%
- TMTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF COASTAL ALABAMA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +116% · 26% of their budget
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.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
To operate and maintain a protective shelter for battered and/or abused women, men, and children or those affected by family violence.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
The christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.
Social services
It is the mission of housing first, inc. to secure resources and assets, which lead to community planning to end homelessness through advocacy and community collaboration.
None
Community mental health center
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.
To promote the common interest of those involved in the development & management of rural multi-family housing.
Provide free medical services for uninsured residents of shelby county, alabama.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Credit Union Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 26 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 47 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 Prodisee Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC ↗
- Who funds Ecumenical Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERTSDALE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services of Montgomery ↗
- Who funds BALDWIN COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH REACH GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds CARE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Under His Wings Inc ↗
- Who funds JENNIFER CLAIRE MOORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NORTH BALDWIN INFIRMARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS LITERACY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE SEA GLASS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF COASTAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds BAY MINETTE ROTARY VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ARC-BALDWIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds THE ANCHOR CROSS CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Drug Education Council Inc ↗
- Who funds PILOTS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HOSPITAL 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.
Open a dossier: Snook Foundation · Rc Craft Family Foundation · Mapp Family Foundation · Impact 100 Baldwin County · Malbis Memorial Foundation · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Cox Family Charitable Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust · United Bank Charitable Foundation · Erie Hall Meyer Charitable 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 Baldwin County Electric Membership 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.