· Public charity
Birmingham Bar Foundation
To support, promote, and encourage activities for the furtherance of justice and legal education, including but not limited to the education of primary and secondary students, as well as the general public to promote a greater understanding of the law, through scholarships and encouragement of legal research, publications, institutes,…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $34,288 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $64,028 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,740 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIRMINGHAM BAR ASSOCIATION YOUNG LAWYERS | $15,388 |
| COMMUNITY CARE DEVELOPMENT NETWORK | $10,000 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITY (CUMBERLAND SHOOL OF LAW) | $8,900 |
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 (FY17–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $33k · revenue +14%
- LALegal Aid Society of Birmingham3× · 2018–2023 · $20k · revenue +17%
Samford University2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- HAHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMAone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +7%
- SFSTRATEGIES FOR YOUTHone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +23%
- BBBROTHER BRYAN MISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +113%
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.
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
Assistance to homeless and needy persons.
Legal services alabama is a statewide nonprofit dedicated to providing access to justice and quality civil legal assistance to educate and empower alabama's low-income community.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.
Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.
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.
Legal aid of east tennessee provides legal representation, legal education, and other civil legal services for the low-income population in our community through advocacy of all types.
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
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.
Rev birmingham (rev) creates vibrant commercial districts.
Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Strategies for Youth and the most unlike its peers is Special Equestrians Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 21 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 VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of Birmingham ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BRYAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Prescott House ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Care Development Network ↗
- Who funds Birmingham AIDS Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MORGAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ONE PLACE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTHSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JUST KEEP SMILING INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL'S PLACE 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 Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Holle Family Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Robert R Meyer 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 Birmingham Bar 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.
- Strategies for Youth — 21% of income from government
- Special Equestrians Inc — 2% of income from government
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.