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Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation at a glance

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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.

$97k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Health$134kPhilanthropy$119kEducation$106kHuman Services$90kReligion$86kArts & Culture$81kCrime & Legal$34kAnimals$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
$1,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$18,000
ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$5,000
YMCA$5,000
HUNTINGDON COLLEGE$3,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER RE$3,000
COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES$3,000
MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES$3,000
BRANTWOOD CHILDERNS HOME$3,000
MERCY HOUSE$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,450
SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER INS$2,000
FIRST CHOICE WOMEN'S MEDICAL CENTER$2,000
FIRST CHOICE WOMEN'S MEDICAL CENTER$2,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA$2,000
DRUIDS CHARITY CLUB INC$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%Triumph Services: $1k → 18%BRANTWOOD CHILDERNS HOME: $3k → 18%BRANTWOOD CHILDERNS HOME: $3k → 18%BRANTWOOD CHILDERNS HOME: $3k → 18%BRANTWOOD CHILDERNS HOME: $3k → 18%BRANTWOOD CHILDERNS HOME: $3k → 18%Brantwood Children's Home: $2k → 18%MERCY HOUSE: $3k → 18%MERCY HOUSE: $3k → 18%MERCY HOUSE: $3k → 18%MERCY HOUSE: $3k → 18%Mercy House: $2k → 18%MERCY HOUSE: $2k → 18%MERCY HOUSE: $2k → 18%Friendship Mission: $1k → 18%Friendship Mission: $1k → 18%Friendship Mission: $1k → 18%YMCA: $5k → 18%TRIUMPH SERVICES: $1k → 18%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $2k → 18%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER INS: $2k → 18%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $2k → 18%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER INS: $2k → 18%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $2k → 18%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER INS: $2k → 18%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER INS: $2k → 18%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER INS: $2k → 18%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER INS: $2k → 18%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $1k → 18%Samaritan Counseling Center: $1k → 18%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $1k → 18%Samaritan Counseling Center: $1k → 18%Samaritan Counseling Center: $1k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$713k · 63 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

63 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
29

Total granted

$713k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+45%

Still filing today

52%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationCrime & LegalAnimalsOther
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

  • MC
    MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +116%
  • AS
    ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +29%
  • HC
    HUNTINGDON COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TP
    TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $26k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • BH
    BAPTIST HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION OF MONTGOMERYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +82%
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.

04Its 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
Montgomery Cancer Wellness Foundation

To provide supportive services, educational services, and assistance to cancer patients throughout central alabama, including those patients who lack the resources

Health
2
Montgomery General Health Care System Inc

None

Health
3
Montgomery Area Coalition for the Homeless Inc

To evaluate needs, facilitate solutions, and seek resources to end homelessness in the river region.

Human Services
4
Montgomery Hospice Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Leadership Montgomery Inc

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

Public Benefit
6
Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

Promote charitable, educational, scientific, and cultural activities in the city of montgomery, alabama.

Community Improvement
7
Montgomery County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc

Serves abused children through a comprehensive approach to services for abused children and their families.

Crime & Legal
8
Methodist Home for the Aging Dba Methodist Homes Corporation

Retirement and nursing home care

Human Services
9
Marion Regional Medical Center Inc

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…

Health
10
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
11
Montgomery Child Care Association Inc

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…

Human Services
12
Montgomery Community Television Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 92 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $25,600 · OtherTRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHHUNTINGDON COLLEGE WELLNESS CENTER: $25,000 · OtherHUNTINGDON COLLEGE WELLNESS CENTERCOMMON GROUND MINISTRIES: $24,000 · OtherCOMMON GROUND MINISTRIESFIRST CHOICE WOMEN'S MEDICAL CENTER INC: $24,000 · OtherFIRST CHOICE WOMEN'S MEDICAL CENTER INCIndividual grant recipient: $15,450 · OtherHOUSE TO HOUSE MINISTRY: $15,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC: $16,000 · OtherDREAM COURT INC: $12,000 · Other+58 more: $192,820 · Other+58 moreMONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $69,470 · EducationMONTGOMERY CHRI…HUNTINGDON COLLEGE: $31,100 · EducationHUNTINGDON COLL…MONTGOMERY CITY-COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,500 · EducationYMCA: $30,635 · Human ServicesYMCAMERCY HOUSE INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesMERCY HOUSE IN…CHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S PRO…THE SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER IN: $13,000 · Human ServicesTHE SAMARITAN …FRIENDSHIP MISSION INC: $9,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP MIS…UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $8,000 · Human ServicesUNITED METHODI…+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $35,000 · Arts & CultureALABAMA SHA…MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $10,800 · Arts & CultureMONTGOMERY …CAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY INC: $9,250 · Arts & CultureCAPRI COMMU…CLOVERDALE PLAYHOUSE INC: $9,250 · Arts & CultureCLOVERDALE …MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $9,000 · Arts & CultureMONTGOMERY …+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureRIVER REGION UNITED WAY: $66,500 · PhilanthropyRIVER REG…MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $21,500 · HealthThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $12,000 · HealthDruids Charity Club Inc: $9,000 · HealthMONTGOMERY AREA NON-TRADITIONAL EQUESTRI: $4,000 · Health+1 more: $1,500 · HealthChild Protect Inc: $10,500 · Crime & LegalRenascence Inc: $9,000 · Crime & LegalAID TO INMATE MOTHERS INC: $5,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$349,870Education$105,070Human Services$96,635Arts & Culture$75,300Philanthropy$66,500Health$48,000Crime & Legal$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $69,470 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetRIVER REGION UNITED WAY: $66,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTINGDON COLLEGE: $31,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA: $30,635 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFIRST CHOICE WOMEN'S MEDICAL CENTER INC: $24,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $21,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY HOUSE INC: $17,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER IN: $13,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDREAM COURT INC: $12,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $10,800 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChild Protect Inc: $10,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDSHIP MISSION INC: $9,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY INC: $9,250 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCLOVERDALE PLAYHOUSE INC: $9,250 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRenascence Inc: $9,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetDruids Charity Club Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY AREA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY: $7,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY INC: $6,050 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAID TO INMATE MOTHERS INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY CITY-COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY AREA NON-TRADITIONAL EQUESTRI: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBAPTIST HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION OF MONTGOMERY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRIUMPH SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP: $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMONTGOMERY BOTANICAL GARDEN AT OAK PARK: $1,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFAITH BROADCASTING INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY LIONS CLUB: $1,050 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET TISHA RHODES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNELLIE BURGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY: $150 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.

  • 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 CAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CLOVERDALE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds Renascence Inc ↗
  • Who funds Druids Charity Club Inc ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY INC ↗

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.

Arthur M Britton Foun…Kiwanis Club of Montg…The J K Lowder Family…The Daniel Foundation…The Hobbs FoundationAlabama Power Foundat…The S Adam Schloss Fo…Crum Family Charitabl…Central Alabama Commu…Alfa FoundationLoeb Family Foundatio…Samuel L Schloss Fami…
Arthur M Britton Foundation IncAL53.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 92 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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