How much does Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation give?

Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $1,971,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Human Services (15%), Youth Development (13%).

Who are Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alice Lloyd College ($625k), The Wellhouse Inc ($534k), The Restoration Academy ($510k).

Does Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Protective Life Foundation.

Where is Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation based?

Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation is based in NV.

Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation

Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$218k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.9MHuman Services$1.8MYouth Development$1.5MHealth$873kFood & Nutrition$725kReligion$587kHousing & Shelter$441kCommunity Improvement$427kOther$0

02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $38k
$10k–50k41 grants · $906k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.0M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$21M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE WELLHOUSE	$217,500
COVENANT RESCUE GROUP	$150,000
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE	$100,000
SAMFORD UNIVERSITY	$85,000
CHRIST HEALTH CENTER INC	$75,000
CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA	$50,000
HIGHLANDS COLLEGE	$50,000
CASA OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC	$50,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER	$50,000
STAIR OF BIRMINGHAM	$50,000
HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC	$50,000
I3 ACADEMY	$50,000
RESTORATION ACADEMY	$50,000
GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC	$40,000
CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION	$40,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$13M · 91 repeat orgs$757k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

91 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$402k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

-9%

Still filing today

70%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

AL
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
8× · 2018–2025 · $625k · revenue +105%
TW
THE WELLHOUSE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $534k · revenue +101%
TR
THE RESTORATION ACADEMY
9× · 2017–2025 · $510k · revenue +166%

Funded once

AG
AG Gaston Boys and Girls Club
one grant, 2018 · $75k
WU
WOODLAWN UNITED INC
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -64%
KB
KINGDOM BUILDERS US INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +70%

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.

04Its field

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.

Alabama Partnership for Children

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.

Education

Birmingham Promise Inc

Birmingham Promise supports and prepares every Birmingham City School student in achieving economic security, mobility, and prosperity by providing connections to high-quality work experiences and last-dollar tuition scholarships

Education

Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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Alabama Christian Academy

To glorify god by providing a quality, christ-centered education which challenges students and teachers to maximize their potential so that graduates are prepared to further their education while becoming productive christian citizens.

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Covenant Academy of Mobile

Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.

Human Services

Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal

University Charter School

Operation of a public charter school in Livingston, AL.

Education

Voices for Alabama's Children

Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture

Leadership Montgomery Inc

To train, educate, and gather community leaders to improve the welfare of the montgomery, alabama community

Public Benefit

Advance Memphis

To empower adults in south memphis to break cycles of unemployment, establish economic stability, reconcile relationships, and restore dignity through knowledge, resources, and skills by the power of jesus christ.

Education

Community Kitchens of Birmingham

Assistance to homeless and needy persons.

Food & Nutrition

Girls Incorporated of Central Alabama

To inspire girls to be strong, smart, and bold

Youth Development

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Judicial Advocacy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hecho Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 124 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

79/81

Grantees still filing

60/81

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,017,145Education$3,438,900Human Services$2,162,040Housing & Shelter$683,500Health$675,100Employment$490,000Community Improvement$420,000

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.

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.

The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL88.6× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Protective Life Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home