· Private foundation
Elohim Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $45,000 |
| CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP | $11,000 |
| REDEEMER CITY TO CITY | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA - DARDEN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HARBOR | $5,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| BIGTIME MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| SHEPHERDS FOLD INC | $2,500 |
| TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| RENEW BIRMINGHAM | $2,500 |
| NOAH'S ARK | $1,000 |
| A EDUCATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TCTHE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +48%
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +21%- RCRedeemer City To City5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- BOBIG OAK RANCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +57%
- HBHOPE BAPTIST CHURCH OF LAS VEGAS INCone grant, 2020 · $4k
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2020 · $700 · revenue -28%
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.
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
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To transform the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims through a global network of ministry partners.
Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…
Brother bryan mission is a christ centered ministry serving economically, emotionally, and spiritually impoverished individuals in the birmingham, alabama area. the mission's goal is for each of its clients to return to their environment…
Equipping mission, ministry, and philanthropic organizations (of similar vision) with the organizational and relational perspective needed to accelerate and enhance their collective impact. mission mutual exists to provide centralized…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Harbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Animal Welfare Foundation. 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 35 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 41 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 THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Redeemer City To City ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS FOLD INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BIGTIME MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RENEW BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Noah's Ark Animal Rehabilitation Center and Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds IMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Whitelock Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds The Monday Morning Quarterback Club ↗
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: Burton Family Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Robert and Lois Luckie Charitable Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Elohim 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.
- Gordon College — 1% 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.