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Bruce Pearl Family Foundation

The BRUCE PEARL FAMILY FOUNDATION is a non profit organization dedicated to providing support to children and families facing challenging and life altering illensses

$290k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$2.1MArts & Culture$100kRecreation & Sports$63kEducation$62kReligion$37kHousing & Shelter$5kInternational$5kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $280,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $290,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$406k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RUSSELL MEDICAL FOUNDATION$50,000
EAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$40,000
CHILDREN'S OF ALABAMA$40,000
SMILE-A-MILE$20,000
ATEAM MINISTRIES$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA - MITCHELL CANCER INSTITUTE$20,000
COOSA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
MIKE SLIVE FOUNDATION$10,000
RUSSEL HILL CANCER FOUNDATION$10,000
EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
JOY TO LIFE FOUNDATION$10,000
SOUTHEAST HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
ALABAMA ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION$10,000
MONTGOMERY CANCER WELLNESS FOUNDATION$10,000
TRIUMPH OF HOPE$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE KOINONIA FOUNDATION TENNESSEE: $25k → 12%THE KOINONIA FOUNDATION TENNESSEE: $20k → 12%THE KOINONIA FOUNDATION TENNESSEE: $15k → 12%THE KOINONIA FOUNDATION TENNESSEE: $10k → 12%THE KOINONIA FOUNDATION TENNESSEE: $10k → 12%THE KOINONIA FOUNDATION TENNESSEE: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 40% of Bruce Pearl Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 56% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Bruce Pearl Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 19 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
13

Total granted

$2.1M
$221k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+31%

Still filing today

89%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureScience & TechPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $850k · revenue +183%
  • RH
    RUSSELL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +217%
  • EA
    EAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $173k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ARTS ASSOCIATION OF EAST ALABAMA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -55%
  • TU
    TIGERS UNLIMITED FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +131%
  • AF
    ATHLETES FOR ISRAEL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -41%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Ala

To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.

Health
2
The University Foundation

The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.

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3
The Medical Foundation of Alabama

To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects

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4
Alabama Sports Foundation Inc

Alabama sports foundation exists to optimize the athlete experience through performance, education, innovation, and implementation. alabama sports foundation does this with each individual by partnering with teams, clubs, and…

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5
Alabama a&M University Foundation

The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…

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6
Urology Health Foundation

The Urology Health Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2003 by Birmingham urologist Dr. Thomas E. Moody. Its purposes are to educate physicians and other medical professionals in new techniques and procedures being…

Education
7
Agcsa Foundation

Agcsa foundation makes grants to medical research organizations and academic medical centers for cancer research and cancer treatment and provides need-based scholarships to children and grandchildren of members of agcsa to attend…

Health
8
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
9
The Al Copeland Foundation

The mission of the al copeland foundation is to provide funding for cancer research to effect advancements in the treatment and prevention of cancer.

Philanthropy
10
Uab Educational Foundation

To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.

Education
11
Augusta University Foundation Inc

To raise private support from individuals, corporations, foundations, and others to further the interests of augusta university. other purposes of the foundation are to establish and maintain endowments and provide the administration for…

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12
University of North Alabama Foundation

To support the university of north alabama in its educational endeavors.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Health Care Foundation of Montgomery and the most unlike its peers is Jason Dufner Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr15%33%20–35yr12%13%35–55yr17%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr15%54%20–35yr12%17%35–55yr17%15%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
2/33
the rest of the field
14%
3,157/22,746

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.

05the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
21/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $849,626 · HealthCHILDREN'S HARBOR INCThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $152,500 · HealthThe Children's Hospital of AlabamaSMILE-A-MILE — $132,500 · HealthSMILE-A-MILEATEAM MINISTRIES — $88,000 · HealthATEAM MINISTRIESTHE V FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Health+4 more — $147,000 · Health+4 moreRUSSELL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $202,500 · OtherRUSSELL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $172,500 · OtherEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDA…THE ARTS ASSOCIATION OF EAST ALABAMA INC — $100,000 · OtherTHE ARTS ASSOCIATION OF EAST ALABA…RUSSEL HILL CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $62,000 · OtherRUSSEL HILL CANCER FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA — $56,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMACOOSA VALLEY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER FOUN — $47,000 · OtherCOOSA VALLEY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTE…+10 more — $78,585 · Other+10 moreTHE CAMP KOINONIA FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesJASON DUFNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $3,475 · Human ServicesHUDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationJOHN MCLENDON MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $16,000 · EducationTHE EAGLES FOUNDATION — $16,000 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationThe Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research — $32,000 · Science & TechTIGERS UNLIMITED FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyATHLETES FOR ISRAEL INC — $18,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$1,429,626Other$718,585Human Services$88,475Education$62,000Science & Tech$32,000Philanthropy$25,000Arts & Culture$18,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $849,626 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetRUSSELL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $202,500 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $172,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $152,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE-A-MILE — $132,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetATEAM MINISTRIES — $88,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetTHE CAMP KOINONIA FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetRUSSEL HILL CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $62,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOOSA VALLEY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER FOUN — $47,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetJOY TO LIFE FOUNDATION — $46,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY CANCER WELLNESS FOUNDATION — $41,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetThe Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research — $32,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetALABAMA ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTIGERS UNLIMITED FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetATHLETES FOR ISRAEL INC — $18,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJOHN MCLENDON MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE EAGLES FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIUMPH OF HOPE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBAPTIST HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION OF MONTGOMERY — $6,060 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetISRAEL TEAM ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGREATER PEACE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJASON DUFNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $3,475 over 1y, 3.3% of budget
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.

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.

Alabama Power Foundat…Samford-Cannon Founda…Arlington Partners Ch…Alfa FoundationHill Crest Foundation…Protective Life Found…Birmingham Hide & Tal…Robert Trent Jones Go…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Debardeleben Foundati…Robert R Meyer Founda…The Maynard Nexsen Fo…
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL24.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Samford-Cannon Foundation · Arlington Partners Charitable Foundation Inc · Alfa Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Birmingham Hide & Tallow Charitable Foundation Inc · Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen 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 Bruce Pearl Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bruce Pearl Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bruce Pearl Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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