· Public charity
Cawaco Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc
Supports activities that increase the conservation of natural resources, improve local economies, and provide for human development.
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.
The 63 grants below total $791,018 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $856,318 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $65,300 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $190k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $601k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF TRUSSVILLE | $30,000 |
| CALERA MAIN STREET | $29,350 |
| ADY'S BIG ARMY | $29,304 |
| CAWACO RC&D INC | $23,972 |
| FRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN JASPER (DBA JASPER MAIN STREET) | $20,950 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ELEVATE BIRMINGHAM | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LOCUST FORK RIVER | $20,000 |
| CHANGED LIVES CHRISTIAN CENTER | $20,000 |
| LUPTON JR HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| JASPER CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM | $20,000 |
| CHILTON COUNTY FIRST RESPONSE ENDOWMENT FUND | $20,000 |
| WALKER COUNTY SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $15,572 |
| HOOVER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| PELHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT | $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 (FY21–25, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456k 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
- BCBLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +685%
- CMCALERA MAIN STREET INC3× · 2022–2025 · $57k · revenue +154%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE LOCUST FORK RIVER3× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- YSYOUNG STARS BASKETBALL ACADEMY INCone grant, 2017 · $29k
- CPCENTER POINT FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $28k
- SMSUSAN MOORE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $25k
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 train volunteer firefighters and respond to emergency calls within the area. to provide emergency care as necessary to the area based on 911 calls and emergency medical services.
Preserve the history of shelby county al
To promote the common interest of those involved in the development & management of rural multi-family housing.
To facilitate implementation of workforce development programs andservices that support economic and job development in the region andthat address the workforce needs of existing businesses and industry.
Volunteer fire department serving the residents of new bethel community in alabama
Rehabilitation facility for alcoholics
Social services
To develop natural and human resources to furher conservation for the benefit of the general public To promote soil and water conservation To develop the natural resources in a 10 county area of Alabama
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
To provide firefighting, fire prevention, rescue, haz mat,and first responder emergency medical services to the citizens of madison county, al and surrounding communities. provides safety eduation and awareness.
Economic development authority for monroeville, al and monroe county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Lake Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Arts Council of Blount County. 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 15 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 146 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 JONES VALLEY URBAN FARM ↗
- Who funds BLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CALERA MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOCUST FORK RIVER ↗
- Who funds WALKER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF CHILT ↗
- Who funds CHANGED LIVES CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF WALKER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET LEEDS ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN JASPER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF BLOUNT COUNTY ↗
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 · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Holle Family Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Junior League of Birmingham 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 Cawaco Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc 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.