· Private foundation
Gifts and Grace Inc
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.
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 $10k11 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VESTAVIA HILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $32,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $26,000 |
| GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| CAHABA RIVER SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| GREENS CHAPEL CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN | $2,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| BIG OAK RANCH | $2,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,000 |
| THE PRESCOTT HOUSE | $1,000 |
| MITCHELL'S PLACE | $1,000 |
| CULTIVATE CHURCH | $1,000 |
| ATEAM MINISTRIES - HEART 2 HEART GALA | $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 (FY20–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +63% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 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
- TGTHE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +146%
- TCThe Children's Hospital of Alabama6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +22%
- CRCahaba River Society Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- TRTHE RESTORATION ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +154%
- CCCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +516%
- UWUNITED WAY- TOCQUEVILLE SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…
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.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
Children at heart ministries is a family of christian ministries that exists to honor god and build a better world by serving children and strengthening families.
To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shriners' Hospital for Children and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 31 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 GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT ↗
- Who funds Cahaba River Society Inc ↗
- Who funds The Prescott House ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE AQUATICS INC ↗
- Who funds SOZO CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ATEAM MINISTRIES ↗
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 Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Gifts and Grace Inc 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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.