· Private foundation
Big Cedar Education 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALABAMA PUBLIC TELEVISION | $10,000 |
| THE BIG HOUSE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,350 |
| BULLOCK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,130 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| CONECUH SPRINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $100 |
| FRIENDS OF PIKE ROAD LIBRARY | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHATS MY CHILD4× · 2018–2023 · $93k · revenue +63%
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +51%
- TCTOURISM COUNCIL OF BULLOCK COUNTY2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- SJST JAMES SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $33k
- ASALABAMA STATE PARKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- LALOVELESS ACADEMIC MAGNET PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
Conduct weekly bible studies for elementary, junior high and high school age students in the community of mountain brook, al. retreat for the kids. summer mission projects
Breakthrough Birmingham works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students in Alabama to achieve post-secondary success while empowering aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.
Montessori pre-school and kindergarten
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
Rescue Dogs from Alabama
Bulloch Academy, Inc. is a full service college preparatory day school whose mission is to challenge, teach, and nurture tomorrow's leaders today.
Seminary level educational training
To partner with higher-education and faith-based organizations to strengthen awareness about poverty and its causes while advocating for fact-based policy decisions statewide.
Education and childcare services.
Care of neglected children
The mission of the alabama state university foundation, inc. is to perpetuate a viable organization that will support the educational needs and goals of alabama state university, its faculty, and students via responsible management of…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THATS MY CHILD ↗
- Who funds EAT SOUTH ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIGHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TOURISM COUNCIL OF BULLOCK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BULLOCK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY & SHELTER ↗
- Who funds CONECUH SPRINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REIMAGINED ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Mid-South Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Big Cedar Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Big Cedar Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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