· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville
Mobilizing generosity to improve quality of life in our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 285 grants below total $11,695,517 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,491,705 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $796,188 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $418k
- $10k–50k170 grants · $3.2M
- $50k–250k48 grants · $4.6M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Freed-Hardeman University | $651,700 |
| City of Huntsville | $600,000 |
| Kids to Love Foundation | $381,650 |
| University of Alabama in Huntsville Foundation | $379,716 |
| Maranatha Camp and Conference Center Inc | $371,034 |
| Whitesburg Baptist Church | $357,015 |
| The Museum of Information Explosion (SIGNALS) | $356,500 |
| HudsonAlpha Foundation | $316,009 |
| Huntsville Hospital Foundation Inc | $202,500 |
| Houston PetSet | $200,000 |
| Enable Madison County | $187,756 |
| Oberlin College | $169,035 |
| Downtown Rescue Mission | $156,983 |
| Church of the Highlands | $156,938 |
| Land Trust of North Alabama | $139,800 |
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 (FY17–23, $4.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
273 repeat relationships — 190 still active in FY2024, 83 since wound down; 80 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- KTKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +131%
- HMHUNTSVILLE MADISON COUNTY BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +62%
- FUFREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +41%
Funded once
- VBVON BRAUN CIVIC CENTERone grant, 2021 · $391k
- AMAHEPA MOTHER LODGE CH 1 EDUCATIONAL FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +59%
- TETHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +254%
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.
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.
As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.
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.
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
It is the mission of housing first, inc. to secure resources and assets, which lead to community planning to end homelessness through advocacy and community collaboration.
Habitat for humanity of williamson-maury (hfhwm) seeks to put god's love into action by partnering with communites to build affordable housing, inspiring hope and life-changing stability for families through homeownership.
Okaloosa habitat for humanity is a non-profit, christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in okaloosa county. we provide opportunites for the community to show god's love in action. through partnership with people…
The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.
Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.
Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama and the most unlike its peers is Cook Museum of Natural Science. 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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
383 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. 383 of the 527 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FRIENDS OF HUNTSVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE MADISON COUNTY BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds The Museum of Information Explosion ↗
- Who funds MARANATHA CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE INNER CITY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALS INC ↗
- Who funds ASCTE FOUNDATION FKA ALABAMA SCHOOL OF CYBER AND ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BURRITT MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GREEN TEAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELLSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds First Stop Inc ↗
- Who funds STILL SERVING VETERANS ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of North Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds EIGHTH STREET COMMUNITY ↗
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 Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Alpha Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The I3 Cares Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · The Propst Foundation · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Strong Family Foundation dated December 1 2012 · Huntsville Rehabilitation Foundation Inc · Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Devel Council Inc · Alabama Power 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 Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
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.