· Community foundation
Community Foundation of West Alabama
To further charitable, educational, literary, religious, scientific and other endeavors within the west alabama area and to enable individuals and organizations to provide for the betterment of the community in which they reside.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 43 grants below total $1,392,305 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,643,226 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $250,921 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 $10k11 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $530k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $783k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTS 'N AUTISM | $157,020 |
| SECOND WIND PROGRAM INC | $152,544 |
| JH RANCH | $135,835 |
| DCH FOUNDATION | $104,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $92,500 |
| THE CHURCH AT TUSCALOOSA | $87,396 |
| Individual grant recipient | $53,440 |
| UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA | $49,700 |
| ST MARK METHODIST CHURCH | $43,000 |
| FREEDOM FARM | $37,600 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF TUSCALOOSA | $37,220 |
| AMERICAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $36,333 |
| I LIKE GIVING | $35,000 |
| GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $33,100 |
| OMNIA CLASSICAL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
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.
49 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k went to new ones.
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA7× · 2018–2024 · $457k
- TPTRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH5× · 2020–2024 · $328k
- IGIndividual grant recipient7× · 2018–2024 · $269k
Funded once
- LILOVE INCone grant, 2023 · $105k
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $100k
- BCB CHARITABLEone grant, 2023 · $71k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2024.
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 2018–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 121 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.