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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.

$112k
Granted FY2022
12
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Education$212kHealth$37kHuman Services$24kCommunity Improvement$7kCrime & Legal$6kYouth Development$4kFood & Nutrition$4kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2022 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k10 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WALLACE STATE FUTURE FOUNDATION$60,000
CULLMAN COUNTY SCHOOLS$20,000
BROOKS PLACE$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 4%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $1k → 4%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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$220k · 6 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +177% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$220k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+177%
+10%

Still filing today

17%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthReligionHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • WS
    WALLACE STATE FUTURE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $170k
  • HH
    HOPE HORSES INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $26k · revenue +177%
  • CS
    COUNTY SHOTGUN CLUB
    2× · 2021–2022 · $8k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • VP
    VFW POST 2214
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Cullman Rotary Club

To create and promote opportunities for service.

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2
Cullman Re-Entry Addiction Assistance Inc

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…

Health
3
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
4
East Cullman Water System Inc

To provide water service to approx. 4,548 members located in the eastern portion of cullman county, alabama.

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5
Flourish of Cullman Inc

Community based support to individuals with developmental disabilities who would like to live as independently as possible.

Employment
6
Cullman Caring for Kids Inc

Child abuse prevention and awareness

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7
Cullman United Soccer Club

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…

Recreation & Sports
8
The Link of Cullman County Inc

To provide support services to the poor & vernable that offers them the opportunity for life transformation by providing counseling and education.

Community Improvement
9
Cullman First United Methodist Church Foundation

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.

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10
Cullman Regional Medical Center Inc

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.

Health
11
Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce Inc

Promotion of the economic development of calhoun county, alabama

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12
Cullman County Bosom Buddies Foundation Inc

Raise money for benefit of cancer victim

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc; 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.
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 27 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)
4
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

WALLACE STATE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $170,000 · OtherWALLACE STATE FUTURE FOUNDATIONCULLMAN COUNTY SCHOOLS: $20,000 · OtherCULLMAN COUNTY SCHOOLSIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+17 more: $59,760 · Other+17 moreHOPE HORSES INC: $26,230 · HealthHOPE HORS…CULLMAN ELKS VETERAN COMMITTEE: $3,111 · Human ServicesCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF CULLMAN INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCullman Christian School: $3,500 · ReligionRESTORING WOMEN OUTREACH INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterNORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$259,760Health$26,230Human Services$5,111Religion$3,500Housing & Shelter$2,500Arts & Culture$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPE HORSES INC: $26,230 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetCullman Christian School: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPICE OF CULLMAN COUNTY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRESTORING WOMEN OUTREACH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCULLMAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF CULLMAN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cullman Savings Bank Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cullman Savings Bank Foundation 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 27 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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