· Public charity
Fairhope Single Tax Corporation
See schedule o response for form 990, part I, line 1.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $182k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAWGRASS CONSULTING LLC | $800,000 |
| CITY OF FAIRHOPE-FOUNDATION PARK | $250,000 |
| CITY OF FAIRHOPE-TOLSTOY PARK FUND | $181,849 |
| FAIRHOPE SUNSET ROTARY CLUB | $20,000 |
| CITY OF FAIRHOPE | $13,020 |
| THE BALDWIN POPS INC | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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 +34% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $820k 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
- COCITY OF FAIRHOPE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M
- FCFAIRHOPE COLONY CEMETERY FUND4× · 2017–2020 · $654k · revenue -18% · 96% of their budget
- EMEcumenical Ministries Inc4× · 2017–2024 · $619k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- SCSABLE COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $745k
- THTHOMAS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue 0%
- FEFAIRHOPE EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +31% · 64% of their budget
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.
The foundation's missionis to provide assistance to the alabama bicentennial commission, which supports, created and executes events and activities that commemorate the stories of alabama's people, places and path to statehood.
To Preserve the Governors Mansion
Bayshore christian school foundation, inc. will raise funds from the general public and manage endowed funds for the direct support and development of bayshore christian school.
Financial program support to Baldwin Public Library, Birmingham, MI
Acquire, preserve, protect, restore, manage & improve alabama lands & water of ecological, scientific, scenic, wildlife or recreational significance. conduct, sponsor, and encourage, engage in ecological study & research. support…
Operate and maintain a public library for the village of East Blue Hill. Sponsor events to promote literacy, reading, and enjoyment of literature. Provide a center for community events that encourage social interaction and fellowship.
Preservation of historic
Fairhope film festival, inc. was created to bring the best in world cinematic culture to our region, and to introduce the local area as a viable location for the film industry and encourage alabama film makers.
The south baldwin education foundation, inc, facilitates the award of education scholarships to graduates of foley high school, robertsdale high school, snook christian academy, gulf shores high school, elberta high school and orange beach…
The bayside foundation was created for the organized solicitation of funds, all of which are to be used for the betterment and advancement of bayside academy, inc. bayside academy is an independent college preparatory school that serves…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairhope Educational Enrichment Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fairhope Colony Cemetery Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 FAIRHOPE COLONY CEMETERY FUND ↗
- Who funds Ecumenical Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FAIRHOPE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FAIRHOPE EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALDWIN FAMILY VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION EASTERN SHORE POST 199 ↗
- Who funds FAIRHOPE-POINT CLEAR ROTARY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds South Alabama Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THEATRE 98 OF BALDWIN COUNTY 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: Mapp Family Foundation · Rc Craft Family Foundation · Gulf Coast Resource Conservation and Development Area · Impact 100 Baldwin County · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Fairhope Single Tax Corporation 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.