· Private foundation
Carol W & Myron J Rothschild Fund
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK | $500,000 |
| MONTGOMERY AREA FAMILY VIOLENCE PRO | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF CENTRAL ALABA | $50,000 |
| MONTGOMERY HUMANE SHELTER | $50,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $25,000 |
| MERCY HOUSE | $25,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF MONTGOMERY | $10,000 |
| BRANTWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY | $10,000 |
| CAMP ASCCA | $7,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY | $7,000 |
| THE EYE BANK FOR SIGHT RESTORATION | $6,000 |
| FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| GIRL SCOUT CAMPERSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| JOY TO LIFE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $349k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
37 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- HOHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $925k · revenue +40%
- MHMERCY HOUSE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +473%
- MAMONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING2× · 2017–2023 · $136k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- MSMACOA - SENIOR SUPPLEMENT PROGone grant, 2018 · $3k
- MMMACOA - MEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2018 · $3k
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 feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
Oversee and facilitate the collection, pasteurization, and distribution of human milk. Provide training and education for healthcare providers and community members about the health importance of human milk for neonates and infants.
Meals on wheels vision is to help create a central alabama where all seniors live nourished lives with independence and dignity.
To provide supportive services, educational services, and assistance to cancer patients throughout central alabama, including those patients who lack the resources
Social services
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
Serving people with intellectual and/or other developmental disabilities and their families.
To foster the independence and dignity of homebound seniors in montgomery county by providing them with nutritious meals, transportation, and caring connections.
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
Mission statement: it is the mission of the family sunshine center to bring help, hope and healing to victims of family violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking through a crisis line, emergency shelter, transitional housing,…
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
To provide in-patient and out-patient end of life care for individuals with terminal illnesses
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc Dba the Eye-Bank of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 48 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 HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds JOY TO LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY INC ↗
- Who funds The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
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 J K Lowder Family Foundation · B Stephen Schloss Foundation · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · John and Joyce Caddell Foundation · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · Alfa Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Working Woman's Home Association Inc · Samuel L Schloss Family Foundation Tr Schlossburke K Trustee · The Landa Fund · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Loeb Family Foundation Inc
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 Carol W & Myron J Rothschild Fund 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.
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.