· Private foundation
Cadence Bank Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 376 grants below total $1,747,804 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,006,035 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $258,231 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 $10k347 grants · $816k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $380k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $552k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Little Rock Christian Academy | $176,667 |
| Gordon State College Foundation | $100,000 |
| The Woodruff Art Center | $75,000 |
| Jackson State University Development Foundation | $50,000 |
| University of Mississippi Foundation | $50,000 |
| CREATE Foundation | $50,000 |
| Regents School of Oxford, Inc. | $50,000 |
| Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville | $40,000 |
| Mississippi Aquarium Foundation | $35,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of America | $29,000 |
| Mid-South Food Bank | $25,000 |
| Joy Development School | $25,000 |
| The Women's Resource of Greater Houston | $20,000 |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $20,000 |
| USA Cares Inc. | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $280k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
103 repeat relationships — 82 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 273 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, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- TSTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO2× · 2022–2024 · $177k · revenue +21%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +11%
- BBakerRipley2× · 2021–2022 · $72k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- MSMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +97%
- CHCHICKASAW HERITAGE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $75k
- TSTN SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTERone grant, 2022 · $75k
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.
Building homes working families can afford. We are dedicated to: providing new, affordable homes to residents in the South Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee; preparing future and current homeowners to both acquire and maintain a safe and…
Empowered by the belief that all people have basic rights to dignity and compassion, our mission at mercy housing and human development is to recognize the need for sustainable, affordable housing for low-wealth families of south…
To helpless less fortunate families to build homes
To provide temporary shelter, related services and nuturing support to housing insecure families with children in baldwin county.
Seeking to put Gods love into action, Holston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
We connect people at-risk for or experiencing homlessness with safe, sustainable, and affordable homes. we work to promote and preserve the dignity and quality of life for all citizens in upstate south carolina.
To provide decent affordable housing for families to become homeowners to help them become positive contributors to the community
Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.
To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
Okaloosa habitat for humanity is a non-profit, christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in okaloosa county. we provide opportunites for the community to show god's love in action. through partnership with people…
Provide training and low income home building for potential first time home buyers. Also provide low income rental housing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for All Gulf Coast and the most unlike its peers is Community Bank Partners. 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 32 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
498 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. 498 of the 802 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds AQUATIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CREATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds URBAN HOPE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds REGENTS SCHOOL OF OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds Avondale House Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUFUND FINANCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SHOESTRING INC ↗
- Who funds LIFTFUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Joy Development School ↗
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: BBVA Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Regions Foundation · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Ergon Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · Navigate Affordable Housing Partners Inc · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Entergy Charitable 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 Cadence Bank 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.
- Tri-County Community Council Inc — 33% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Harvest House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bay Education Foundation Inc — 0% 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.
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