· Private foundation
Goodwyn Mills & Cawood Charitable Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of GOODWYN MILLS & CAWOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k79 grants · $191k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL | $55,975 |
| CHILDREN'S OF ALABAMA | $11,000 |
| THE SERVICE GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM | $7,500 |
| ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL ESTUARY PRO | $7,500 |
| THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| ATHENS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FATHER PURCELL MEMORIAL EXCEPTIONAL | $5,000 |
| THE PENNY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN VILLAGE CITIZENSHIP TRUST | $5,000 |
| THE DOLPHIN FOUNDATION FOR ED&ART | $5,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $5,000 |
| LEADERSHIP MONTGOMERY | $5,000 |
| MANE | $5,000 |
| SMILE-A-MILE | $5,000 |
| ALABAMA CASA NETWORK INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 68 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k 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
- TCThe Children's Hospital of Alabama3× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +9%
- TPTHE PENNY FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +407%
- TATUKABATCHEE AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TSTHE SERVICE GUILDone grant, 2022 · $5k
- UAUNITED ABILITY INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +12%
- AHAFRICATOWN HERITAGE PRESERVATION FOone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.
Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Montgomery Inc and the most unlike its peers is Peninsula of Mobile. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 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. 67 of the 130 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 INTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds THE PENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUKABATCHEE AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Athens State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA CASA NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP MONTGOMERY INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds Garretts Place Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWOOD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Home of Grace For Women Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FLIGHT CLUB 502 ↗
- Who funds THE ALABAMA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELLSTAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOAPSTONE PRESERVATION ENDOWMENT 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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Alfa Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc · The Long Lewis Foundation · Altecstyslinger 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 Goodwyn Mills & Cawood Charitable Foundation 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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.