· Private foundation
Cullman Savings Bank Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k10 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALLACE STATE FUTURE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| CULLMAN COUNTY SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $5,000 |
| BROOKS PLACE | $5,000 |
| HOPE HORSES INC | $5,000 |
| COUNTY SHOTGUN CLUB | $4,000 |
| CULLMAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| NORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| RESTORING WOMEN OUTREACH | $2,500 |
| JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC | $1,000 |
| WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $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 (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +177% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- WSWALLACE STATE FUTURE FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $170k
- HHHOPE HORSES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $26k · revenue +177%
- CSCOUNTY SHOTGUN CLUB2× · 2021–2022 · $8k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN CLINICone grant, 2021 · $5k
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 create and promote opportunities for service.
The mission of creaa is to bring healing and restoration to individuals and families touched by addiction and addiction related mental illness. our goal is to provide services to improve the physical, mental, and spiritual health of those…
to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities through promoting the collection and responsible distribution of charitable funds
To provide water service to approx. 4,548 members located in the eastern portion of cullman county, alabama.
Community based support to individuals with developmental disabilities who would like to live as independently as possible.
Child abuse prevention and awareness
The mission of cullman united soccer club is to promote soccer in cullman county and surrounding areas. we work to accomplish this by promoting recreational soccer throughout cullman county and working with area communities to promote…
To provide support services to the poor & vernable that offers them the opportunity for life transformation by providing counseling and education.
To receive gifts, bequest, insurance proceeds and investment income. formed to pay for major repairs, renovations, equipment and other expenses of first united methodist church in cullman, alabama.
Cullman regional medical center, licensed for 175 beds, operates a 175-bed general acute care hospital for the community of cullman, alabama and surrounding areas regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Promotion of the economic development of calhoun county, alabama
Raise money for benefit of cancer victim
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc and the most unlike its peers is Johnny Mac Soldiers Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 27 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 HOPE HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds Cullman Christian School ↗
- Who funds CULLMAN ELKS VETERAN COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CULLMAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORING WOMEN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CULLMAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF CULLMAN INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND 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.
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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 Cullman Savings Bank Foundation 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.
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.
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