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Cecile C Craig Charitable Test Trust at a glance

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Cecile C Craig Charitable Test Trust

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.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$60kFood & Nutrition$54kHuman Services$32kCrime & Legal$19kArts & Culture$16kHousing & Shelter$12kHealth$7k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$703k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC$5,000
PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOME$5,000
COMMUNITY SOUP BOWL$5,000
FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE$4,000
TUSCALOOSA CHILDRENS CENTER INC$2,500
SAMARITAN CLINIC$1,500
02The need
03

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 (FY23–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 10%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $4k → 17%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $4k → 17%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $2k → 17%EAGLES WINGS INC: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 8 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$176k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+7%

Still filing today

88%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CS
    COMMUNITY SOUP BOWL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +61%
  • PH
    PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +12%
  • HT
    HISTORIC TUSCALOOSA INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HISTORIC NORTHPORT
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • EW
    EAGLES' WINGS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • FC
    FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF WEST ALABAM A INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -5%
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.

1
Community Food Bank of Central Alabama

To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.

Food & Nutrition
2
Tunica Humane Society

Providing shelter and food for the homeless, unwanted animals in tunica county, providing medical attention needed, spay and neuter all animals taken in and finding homes for them. assist needy citizens with food for their animals.

Animals
3
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

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.

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4
Habitat for Humanity of Faulkner County

To helpless less fortunate families to build homes

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5
Chattahoochee Hospice Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Decatur Area Habitat

Provide housing for the needy

Housing & Shelter
7
Turning Point Community Services Inc

Homeless shelter

Housing & Shelter
8
Habitat for Humanity the Wind River Country

The organization builds homes for low income families.

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9
Northwest Arkansas Food Bank

To nourish northwest arkansas communities by feeding hungry people through partnerships with other hunger relief organizations.

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10
Hcs Family Services

Dedicated to strengthening our community by reducing hunger and promoting self-sufficiency.

Community Improvement
11
Gadsden-Etowah Habitat for Humanity

Construction of Residential Housing for Low-income families

—
12
Child Abuse Prevention Services of Tuscaloosa Inc

The organizations purpose is to provide services to individuals for the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian Home for Children; the most unlike its peers is West Alabama Food Bank 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCOMMUNITY SOUP BOWL INC: $31,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SOUP BOWL INCWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $22,500 · OtherWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INCTHE TUSCALOOSA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $18,500 · OtherTHE TUSCALOOSA CHILDREN'S CENTER INCPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $16,500 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDRENHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYHISTORIC TUSCALOOSA INC: $9,500 · OtherHISTORIC TUSCALOOSA INC+2 more: $3,500 · OtherFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $8,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY COU…PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES: $5,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERI…EAGLES' WINGS INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesEAGLES' WI…FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF WEST ALABAM A INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY COU…FRIENDS OF HISTORIC NORTHPORT: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTUSCALOOSA CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureGREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$171,500Human Services$18,000Arts & Culture$6,500Housing & Shelter$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY SOUP BOWL INC: $31,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TUSCALOOSA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $18,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $16,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetHISTORIC TUSCALOOSA INC: $9,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEAGLES' WINGS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF WEST ALABAM A INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTUSCALOOSA CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Reese Phifer Jr M…Alabama Power Foundat…The James I Harrison …The Daniel Foundation…Se Belcher Jr Private…Holle Family Foundati…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan CorkAL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The James I Harrison Family Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Se Belcher Jr Private Foundation #3 · Holle Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Cecile C Craig Charitable Test Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cecile C Craig Charitable Test Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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