· Private foundation
Debardeleben Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k71 grants · $164k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHEROKEE BEND CHIEF PTO | $25,755 |
| YMCA OF BIRMINGHAM | $17,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $9,500 |
| AMERICAN BASEBALL FOUNDATION | $8,700 |
| THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| THE CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION | $7,890 |
| FLY RIGHT MINISTRY | $6,865 |
| O'NEAL UAB COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $6,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| THE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT | $5,000 |
| REDEEMER CITY TO CITY | $5,000 |
| INDEPENDENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| UNITED ABILITY | $5,000 |
| SPIRITUAL LIFE MINISTRY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
104 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 23 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $75k · revenue +74%- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +12%
- RMRED MOUNTAIN GARDEN CLUB INC5× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +70% · 53% of their budget
Funded once
- CAC A L M CHARITIES INCone grant, 2023 · $12k
- FLFRESHWATER LAND TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +110%
- ASALABAMA SHERIFF'S GIRLS RANCHone 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 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 help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.
Alabama sports foundation exists to optimize the athlete experience through performance, education, innovation, and implementation. alabama sports foundation does this with each individual by partnering with teams, clubs, and…
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
To glorify god by providing a quality, christ-centered education which challenges students and teachers to maximize their potential so that graduates are prepared to further their education while becoming productive christian citizens.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
Obtain optimal health & well-being for all children in alabama, and to provide educational and practice support for its membership so the highest quality of medical care can be achieved.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.
Provide grants and assistance to 501(c)(3) organizations assisting disadvantaged, disabled, and at-risk families and children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mondo Bizarro Productions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
113 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. 113 of the 213 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Redeemer City To City ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE SMARTPLAY ↗
- Who funds SPIRITUAL LIFE MINISTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Christian African Leadership Ministries ↗
- Who funds PRESCHOOL PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LORD WEDGWOOD CHARITY ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run Birmingham ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham Inc ↗
- Who funds THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds The Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research ↗
- Who funds UAB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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 Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Protective Life Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · The Hackney Foundation
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 Debardeleben Foundation Inc 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.
- Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.