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Gordy-Mead-Britton 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
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 $10k46 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $18,000 |
| YMCA | $5,000 |
| ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| HUNTINGDON COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| BRANTWOOD CHILDERNS HOME | $3,000 |
| MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| MERCY HOUSE | $3,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER RE | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,450 |
| SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER INS | $2,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA | $2,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER | $2,000 |
| CHILD PROTECT | $2,000 |
| FIRST UNITES METHODIST CHURCH RESPI | $2,000 |
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, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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 +28% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MCMONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +116%
- ASALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +29%
- HCHUNTINGDON COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- TPTRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $26k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $6k
- BHBAPTIST HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION OF MONTGOMERYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +82%
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 provide supportive services, educational services, and assistance to cancer patients throughout central alabama, including those patients who lack the resources
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To evaluate needs, facilitate solutions, and seek resources to end homelessness in the river region.
To gentle the journey through serious illness and loss with skill and compassion. to bring comfort by providing compassionate, professional care to community residents who are facing serious illness and loss. to provide dignity for the…
To train, educate, and gather community leaders to improve the welfare of the montgomery, alabama community
Promote charitable, educational, scientific, and cultural activities in the city of montgomery, alabama.
Serves abused children through a comprehensive approach to services for abused children and their families.
Retirement and nursing home care
Marion regional medical center, inc. owns and operates a 49 bed acute care hospital and a 79 bed nursing home located in hamilton, alabama called north mississippi medical center-hamilton (nmmc-hamilton). nmmc-hamilton is part of the north…
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
Montgomery child care association strives to provide the highest quality child care and play-based education for children in montgomery county, maryland; professional training for child care providers; advocacy for affordable, quality…
Montgomery community television's mission is to encourage and sponsor television programming and broadband media that meets community needs and offer forums for free expression.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 93 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 MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RIVER REGION UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YMCA ↗
- Who funds FIRST CHOICE WOMEN'S MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds DREAM COURT INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Child Protect Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CLOVERDALE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Renascence Inc ↗
- Who funds Druids Charity Club Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY 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: Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Hobbs Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · Crum Family Charitable Foundation · Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc · Alfa Foundation · Loeb Family Foundation Inc · Samuel L Schloss Family Foundation Tr Schlossburke K Trustee
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 Gordy-Mead-Britton 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.
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.
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