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Community Bank Partners

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2021
9
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Human Services$17kCommunity Improvement$12kHousing & Shelter$12kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$8kEmployment$3kOther$0
02FY2021 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Madison County$2,500
Village of Promise$2,500
Lincoln Village Ministry$2,500
Cornerstone Initiative$2,500
Community Action Partnership$2,500
The CARE Center$2,500
Kids to Love$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Boys and Girls Club of North Alabama$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Kids to Love: $3k → 11%Kids to Love: $3k → 11%Kids to Love: $3k → 11%Kids to Love: $2k → 11%Village of Promise: $3k → 11%The CARE Center: $3k → 11%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49k · 7 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against +72% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$49k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+72%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21
Human ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & 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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA
    4× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +165%
  • KT
    KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +131%
  • UW
    United Way of Madison County Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • FS
    Family Service of Huntsville
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -100%
  • TE
    THE ELM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +72%
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
United Way of Cullman County Inc

to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities through promoting the collection and responsible distribution of charitable funds

Philanthropy
2
Gadsden-Etowah Habitat for Humanity

Construction of Residential Housing for Low-income families

—
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.

—
4
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services
5
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
6
United Way of Northwest Alabama

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community

Philanthropy
7
Madison County Habitat for Humanity

Build low cost, affordable homes for low income familes using volunteer labor and donated materials. provide no interest loans to enable qualifying families to purchase homes. 17 homes have been built.

—
8
Children's Foundation of Memphis
Health
9
Christmas Charities Year Round

For Madison County, Alabama Residents at or below the area median income or in emergent need, CCYR provides basic necessities year round - distribution of clothes, schoold supplies, household items, furniture, assistive technology, and…

Human Services
10
Darlington County Habitat for Humanity Inc

To provide affordable housing for low-income families in darlington county, sc

Housing & Shelter
11
Emmanuel Family and Child Development Center & Emergency Shelter for Childr

Provide care & education for children in the urban area, and provide affordable housing for low-income individuals

Education
12
Christian Job Corps of Madison County Inc

Inspiring and empowering men and women toward self-sufficiency.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cornerstone Initiative; the most unlike its peers is The Elm Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Action Partnership: $5,000 · OtherCommunity Action PartnershipThe Catalyst (Formerly WBCNA): $4,500 · OtherThe Catalyst (Formerly WBCNA)Family Service of Huntsville: $2,500 · OtherFamily Service of HuntsvilleHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $9,500 · Human ServicesKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATIONThe CARE Center: $2,500 · Human ServicesThe CARE CenterVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $2,500 · Human ServicesVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPO…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB …United Way of Madison County Inc: $8,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of M…THE ELM FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE ELM FOUNDAT…THE CORNERSTONE INITIATIVE: $7,500 · Community ImprovementTHE CORNERSTO…LINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION: $4,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$17,000Human Services$14,500Youth Development$10,000Philanthropy$8,500Community Improvement$7,500Housing & Shelter$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Madison County Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CORNERSTONE INITIATIVE: $7,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe CARE Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Community Foundation …Wallace E Kirkpatrick…Alpha FoundationThe Daniel Foundation…John a Jurenko Et Al …The Jane K Lowe Chari…The I3 Cares Foundati…The Beard-Young Famil…Charities Aid Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…
Community Foundation of Greater HuntsvilleAL22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · Alpha Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · John a Jurenko Et Al Foundation · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · The I3 Cares Foundation · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Community Bank Partners funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Bank Partners. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    1report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Community Bank Partners?

    Find your warmest path to Community Bank Partners through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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