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Fuse Project

The mission of FUSE PROJECT is to provide the spark for innovation, funding and implementation of projects benefiting children along alabama's gulf coast by investing in initiatives, which promote the health, fitness, education and social responsibility of our children.

$21k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
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States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Youth Development$86kEducation$41kHealth$35kEnvironment$31kArts & Culture$25kFood & Nutrition$25kCommunity Improvement$13kRecreation & Sports$9kOther$0
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$2,500
Median grant
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States reached
$431k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COOKERY PROJECT$12,500
FLOURISH$4,250
MLK AVENUE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$2,500
PUAD$850
MOBILE BALLET$250
MOBILE KAPPA LEAGUE$250
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$83k · 5 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
16

Total granted

$83k
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+50%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS
    2× · 2018–2020 · $43k · revenue +21%
  • TC
    THE COOKERY PROJECT INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k
  • FC
    FLOURISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $9k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • DW
    Dance Without Limits Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +135% · 32% of their budget
  • TL
    THE LEARNING TREE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +37%
  • TF
    TEAM FOCUS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -51%
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.

03Its 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
Covenant Academy of Mobile

Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.

Human Services
2
Leadership Montgomery Inc

To train, educate, and gather community leaders to improve the welfare of the montgomery, alabama community

Public Benefit
3
Alabama Baseball Coaches Association in

To honor, educate and promote the state's amateur baseball players and coaches.

Recreation & Sports
4
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mississippi

Big brothers big sisters of mississippi previously recruited adults to work with children one-on-one and act as their mentor. these volunteers were supervised by trained professionals who assess the growth & development of the children.

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5
Thrive Memphis

To enrich the lives of the developmentally challenged by meeting their social, recreational and continuing educational needs.

Human Services
6
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Alabama Inc

To enable and motivate all youth within a safe environment to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens according to judeo-christian principles.

Youth Development
7
Bigtime Ministries

Conduct weekly bible studies for elementary, junior high and high school age students in the community of mountain brook, al. retreat for the kids. summer mission projects

Religion
8
Mobile Bar Association

To elevate the legal profession to the highest possible standards, regulate its practice, and provide continuing legal education to its members.

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9
Bama Kids Inc

The mission of the organization is to improve the well being emotionally,and physically, of youth by combining structured life skills, educational activities, developing and promoting leadership and involvement of youth and their parents.

Crime & Legal
10
Special Olympics Alabama Inc

Provide year-round sports training & athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage,…

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11
Alabama Youth Ballet Theatre Inc

To promote the dance arts through dance classes, productions, workshops, educataion, and outreach programs.

Arts & Culture
12
Mobile International Festival Inc

The festival was established in 1982 to help educate the school children and share the many international cultures in Mobile among everyone as an annual event. Our goal is to promote understanding, acceptance, friendship and to show…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 100 Black Men Greater Mobile Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dwell Mobile. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS: $43,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDSTHE COOKERY PROJECT INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE COOKERY PROJECT INCTHE LEARNING TREE INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE LEARNING TREE INCUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $20,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMAVISUALIZE EVERYONE THAT SERVES: $15,976 · OtherVISUALIZE EVERYONE THAT SERVESREDEMPTIONS PLACE: $10,000 · OtherREDEMPTIONS PLACEMOBILE SWIM ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 · OtherCITY OF MOBILE: $7,250 · Other+6 more: $10,500 · Other+6 moreTEAM FOCUS INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEAM FOCUS …MOBILE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentMOBILE AREA…DWELL MOBILE: $20,000 · Human ServicesDWELL MOBIL…FLOURISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Human ServicesFLOURISH CO…Dance Without Limits Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureDance With…Mobile Baykeeper Inc: $15,000 · Environment100 BLACK MEN GREATER MOBILE INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementMLK AVENUE REDEVELOPMENT CORP: $2,500 · Community ImprovementTHE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION: $4,000 · ReligionSOCCER 4 LIFE CORPORATION: $100 · Recreation & Sports
Other$165,976Youth Development$29,500Human Services$28,500Arts & Culture$25,000Environment$15,000Community Improvement$12,500Religion$4,000Recreation & Sports$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS: $43,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDance Without Limits Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetTHE LEARNING TREE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM FOCUS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget100 BLACK MEN GREATER MOBILE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFLOURISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetMOBILE SWIM ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMOBILE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMLK AVENUE REDEVELOPMENT CORP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOBILE BALLET INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Daniel Foundation…J L Bedsole Foundatio…Cd Helen and Jeff Gla…Crampton Trust #12550…Alabama Power Foundat…Ws Foundation Inc Bla…The Robert and Joanna…As Mitchell Foundatio…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner · The Robert and Joanna Cunningham Charitable Foundation Inc · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 24 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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