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Barbara Ingalls Shook 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6
- $10k–50k3 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| ST CLAIR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC | $35,000 |
| ST CLAIR COUNTY DAY PROGRAM INC | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PASSTHROUGHS | $6 |
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 (FY19–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% 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 +59% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- VPVULCAN PARK FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $195k · revenue +14%
- TNTHE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $188k · revenue +182%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2018–2025 · $111k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- RMRED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -66%
- UUABone grant, 2020 · $100k
- MMMEGAN MONTGOMERY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $55k
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.
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…
To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.continued on schedule o.arkansas children's will fundamentally transform healthcare delivery for the children of arkansas and beyond. arkansas children's core values…
The american society for clinical investigation seeks to support the scientific efforts, educational needs, and clinical aspirations of physician-scientists to improve the health of all people.
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…
The american astronomical society (aas), established in 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america. the basic objective of the aas is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of…
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
The vision of arkansas children's research institute is to be a leader in cutting-edge research that improves the health and well-being of children and their families. in support of this vision, arkansas children's research institute aims…
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation 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.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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 Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST CLAIR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST CLAIR COUNTY DAY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Vineyard Family Services of Central Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds ATEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TUM TUM TREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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 Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · The James Milton and Sallie R Johnson Foundation · The Welch Group 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 Barbara Ingalls Shook 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.
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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