· Private foundation
Ernest G Debakey Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
- $250k+1 grant · $402k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INFIRMARY FOUNDATION | $401,951 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $128,509 |
| CHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRY | $56,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| DRUG EDUCATION COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| DANCE WITHOUT LIMITS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR VISION REHABILITATION | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S OF ALABAMA | $6,000 |
| ALABAMA KIDNEY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CASA MOBILE | $5,000 |
| MOBILE AREA COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–21, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 17 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- IFINFIRMARY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +34%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +72%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MOBILE4× · 2018–2021 · $240k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- STSPR TEXAS MINISTRIES CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $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 provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The Urology Health Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2003 by Birmingham urologist Dr. Thomas E. Moody. Its purposes are to educate physicians and other medical professionals in new techniques and procedures being…
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
Education, practice and patient care
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
The university of alabama ophthalmology services foundation (osf) is a non-profit corporation organized to serve the eye health needs of the people of alabama and beyond through excellence in patient care, medical education, and research.
Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.
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 increase access to quality healthcare and improve the overall health of the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Infirmary Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame. 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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 INFIRMARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Drug Education Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Victory Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Mobile Inc ↗
- Who funds Rapahope Childrens Retreat Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc ↗
- Who funds Dance Without Limits Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES VISION REHAB ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARC-BALDWIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA HEALTHCARE HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES ↗
- Who funds CASA MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOBILE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Alabama Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM FOCUS 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.
Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Mapp Family Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Julien E Marx Foundation Trust · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · United Bank Charitable Foundation · The Florence 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 Ernest G Debakey Charitable 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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