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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.

$92k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$32,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Gifts and Grace Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesInternationalArts & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$92k7%
FY202415$93k13%
FY202312$71k0%
FY202212$98k0%
FY202111$34k18%
FY202017$103k59%
FY201910$95k60%
FY201810$100k60%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$260kReligion$179kHealth$71kEducation$68kHuman Services$50kYouth Development$29kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kEnvironment$21kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc$260,10081%
The Restoration Academy$50,00011%
The Children's Hospital of Alabama$30,00060%
Core Community Organized Relief Effort$25,00010%
Cahaba River Society Inc$20,80091%
Seaside Interfaith Chapel Inc$17,0004n/a
The Prescott House$16,50071%
Big Oak Ranch Inc$16,00060%
Mitchell's Place Inc$16,00090%
Adaptive Aquatics Inc$7,5002n/a
Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of Gifts and Grace Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc$260,10081%
The Restoration Academy$50,00011%
The Children's Hospital of Alabama$30,00060%
Core Community Organized Relief Effort$25,00010%
Cahaba River Society Inc$20,80091%
Seaside Interfaith Chapel Inc$17,0004n/a
The Prescott House$16,50071%
Big Oak Ranch Inc$16,00060%
Mitchell's Place Inc$16,00090%
Adaptive Aquatics Inc$7,5002n/a
Sozo Children International$5,00010%
Jefferson State Community College Foundation Inc$5,00012%
American Heart Association Inc$5,00010%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$5,00010%
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame$5,00011%
Samaritan's Purse$4,00020%
Cultivate Church$1,0001n/a
Ateam Ministries$1,00010%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($260k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gifts and Grace Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc: $260,100 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetThe Restoration Academy: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCore Community Organized Relief Effort: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCahaba River Society Inc: $20,800 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetThe Prescott House: $16,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBig Oak Ranch Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMitchell's Place Inc: $16,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSozo Children International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJefferson State Community College Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlabama Sports Hall of Fame: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAteam Ministries: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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 Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Gifts and Grace Inc

How much does Gifts and Grace Inc give?
Gifts and Grace Inc reported 14 grants totaling $91,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Gifts and Grace Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (35%), Religion (24%), Health (9%).
Who are Gifts and Grace Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc ($260k), The Restoration Academy ($50k), The Children's Hospital of Alabama ($30k).
Does Gifts and Grace Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gifts and Grace Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gifts and Grace Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Alabama Power Foundation Inc, Hill Crest Foundation Inc.
Where is Gifts and Grace Inc based?
Gifts and Grace Inc is based in AL.

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 31 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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