· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama
To achieve positive change through the generosity of donors, now and for generations to come
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 71 grants below total $1,468,014 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,922,214 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,454,200 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 $10k23 grants · $171k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $881k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $161k
- $250k+1 grant · $254k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rainbow Omega Inc | $254,258 |
| Oxford Performing Arts Center (OPAC) | $100,000 |
| Family Success Center of Etowah County Inc | $61,313 |
| St Michael's Medical Clinic | $47,631 |
| Sight Savers America | $46,791 |
| City of Anniston | $37,076 |
| Blount County Education Foundation Inc | $35,000 |
| The Community Food Bank of Central Alabama | $34,214 |
| United Way of East Central Alabama | $31,364 |
| Interfaith Ministries | $30,160 |
| Maximizing Mental Health | $28,191 |
| Auburn University Office of Scholarships | $28,000 |
| Jacksonville State University (JAX State) | $27,688 |
| Independent Presbyterian Church | $27,600 |
| University of Alabama | $24,500 |
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, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
99 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 17 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k 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
- RORAINBOW OMEGA INC6× · 2017–2025 · $629k · revenue +35%
- SSSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $437k · revenue +30%
- UWUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $364k · revenue +72%
Funded once
Teach for America Incone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -3%- COCITY OF PELL CITY2× · 2022–2023 · $27k
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF JACKSONVILLE INC (KIDS 1ST DAYCARE)one grant, 2021 · $27k
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 provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
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.
Social services
Established to serve as an advocate of children & to reduce the trauma & anxiety of victims of child abuse by providing coordinated multi- disciplinary & human approach to the investigation & interviewing process.
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.
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.
Provide primary health care to mostly low-income and underserved persons.
Administration of federal, state and local awards and grants for the poverty sector of a 7 county area in alabama, providing headstart education, food, shelter, maintenance, and weatherization programs.
To survey, evaluate, and provide a method for common action by the regional ems agencies in furthering the development and improvement of emergency medical care to the citizens of alabama including coordination of activities and projects…
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kidz Day Out Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 130 of the 185 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 RAINBOW OMEGA INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC OF CALHOUN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUCCESS CENTER OF ETOWAH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAEL'S MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds HEALTH SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Gadsden State Cardinal Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARC OF CALHOUN AND CLEBURNE COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CALHOUN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EVELYN MOON CRISIS SHELTER EVELYN MOON CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MAXIMIZING MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT EMERGENCY RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds Impact America ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MARSHALL COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · United Way of East Central Alabama Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Alabama Civil Justice Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust
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 Northeast Alabama 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.
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% 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.