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Foundation 1781 at a glance

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Foundation 1781

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$29kHealth$19kHousing & Shelter$13kFood & Nutrition$3kYouth Development$3kArts & Culture$3kInternational$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,325
Median grant
1
States reached
$61k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Village of Promise$3,325
02The need
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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 (FY21–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American RedCross: $1k → 14%Kids to Love: $978 → 11%Kids to Love: $730 → 11%Kids to Love: $537 → 11%WEDC Foundation: $3k → 11%WEDC Foundation: $3k → 11%WEDC Foundation: $3k → 11%Village of Promise: $4k → 11%Village of Promise: $3k → 11%Village of Promise: $2k → 11%Village of Promise: $2k → 11%Village of Promise: $1k → 11%Village of Promise: $924 → 11%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$50k · 9 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
16

Total granted

$50k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+27%

Still filing today

67%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyPublic BenefitArts & 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

  • VO
    VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED
    5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +27%
  • TW
    The WEDC Foundation Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +7%
  • SS
    STILL SERVING VETERANS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +13%
  • BS
    Boy Scout Troop 133
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3k
  • SI
    Stay In Step Brain Spinal Cord Injury Recovery
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
Human Resources Development Institute Inc

Provides health and human service programs to high risk, undeserved individuals and communities.

Human Services
2
Pathways Professional Counseling

The ministry is a not-for-profit corporation chartered under the laws of the state of alabama as a ministry whose purpose is to offer christ-centered counseling for children, youth, adults, and families.

Human Services
3
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…

Health
4
The Bridge Inc

To provide treatment and rehabilitative services for juveniles and adults in alabama through contracts primarily with the alabama department of youth services and the alabama department of mental health.

Health
5
Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…

Education
6
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
7
Mental Health Cooperative Inc

Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…

Health
8
Hope for Haitian Children

Provide assistance and support to impoverished children.

Human Services
9
Human Development Center Inc

Hdc's mission is to foster hope, resilience, and recovery by providing integrated, culturally respectful mental health and addiction services.

Health
10
Harris House Foundation

Harris house foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit corporation whose primary purpose is to help alcoholic and chemically-dependent persons achieve sobriety and become useful, healthy and productive individuals; implicit in our mission…

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11
Rise Above the Disorder

Rise Above The Disorder is a non-profit centered on making mental health care accessible and affordable to everyone. Our cause was founded in 2012 as a team of volunteers helping people find local therapists and crowd-funding the cost of…

Health
12
Harrison County Child Abuse Taskforce in C

The hero's haven child advocacy center is a child-focused, facility-based program where forensic interviews of children sexually abused by out-of-home perpetrators, or where there is a cooperative parent/custodian, are conducted, where…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Huntsville Dream Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Wedc Foundation 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

14 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. 14 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $12,991 · Human ServicesVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATEDThe WEDC Foundation Inc: $7,714 · Human ServicesThe WEDC Foundation IncKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $2,245 · Human ServicesKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATIONAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human ServicesStay In Step Brain Spinal Cord: $5,791 · OtherStay In Step Brain Spinal CordBoy Scout Troop 133: $2,820 · OtherBoy Scout Troop 133Stay In Step Brain Spinal Cord Injury Recovery: $2,564 · OtherStay In Step Brain Spinal Cord In…Stay In Step Brain Spinal Cord Inju: $2,500 · OtherStay In Step Brain Spinal Cord In…HARRIS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,710 · OtherHARRIS HOME FOR CHILDREN INCNorth Alabama Food Bank: $1,418 · OtherNorth Alabama Food BankFirst Stop of Huntsville: $1,311 · OtherFirst Stop of HuntsvilleVeterans Initiative Program: $1,073 · OtherRocket City Dance Company: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $1,500 · Other+3 moreDOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC: $12,760 · Housing & ShelterDOWNTOWN RESCUE MIS…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S D…PATHWAY TO HOPE INC: $2,555 · HealthPATHWAY TO HO…Little Orange Fish Corporation: $2,500 · HealthLittle Orange…THE ENRICHMENT CENTER: $515 · HealthTHE ENRICHMEN…STILL SERVING VETERANS: $3,020 · Public BenefitHUNTSVILLE DREAM CENTER INC: $1,998 · PhilanthropyBAND OF ANGELS CORP: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHUNTSVILLE POLICE CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$23,950Other$21,687Housing & Shelter$12,760Health$8,570Public Benefit$3,020Philanthropy$1,998Arts & Culture$1,000Crime & Legal$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $12,991 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC: $12,760 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe WEDC Foundation Inc: $7,714 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSTILL SERVING VETERANS: $3,020 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAY TO HOPE INC: $2,555 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $2,245 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSVILLE DREAM CENTER INC: $1,998 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARRIS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,710 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAND OF ANGELS CORP: $1,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ENRICHMENT CENTER: $515 over 2y, 0.1% 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 VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds The WEDC Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds STILL SERVING VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAY TO HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Little Orange Fish Corporation ↗
  • Who funds KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUNTSVILLE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HARRIS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds BAND OF ANGELS CORP ↗
  • Who funds HUNTSVILLE POLICE CITIZENS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗

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.

The I3 Cares Foundati…Community Foundation …Alpha FoundationThe Jane K Lowe Chari…The Daniel Foundation…The Propst FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The I3 Cares FoundationAL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The I3 Cares Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Alpha Foundation · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Propst Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Foundation 1781 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation 1781. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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.

    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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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