· Public charity
Gulf Coast Resource Conservation and Development Area
To provide local leadership in developing and carrying out an action oriented plan to conserve develop, and utilize the natural resources for the betterment of the region.
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.
The 64 grants below total $897,333 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $928,827 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,494 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $692k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WS NEAL HIGH SCHOOL | $71,000 |
| ALMA BRYANT HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| RIDGE ROAD VFD | $29,775 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FOLEY | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RC&D COUNCILS | $22,500 |
| BELFOREST CIVIC LEAGUE | $20,000 |
| INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS | $20,000 |
| ROBERTSDALE HIGH SCHOOL | $17,908 |
| BARNETT CROSSROADS VFD | $15,000 |
| CITY OF FOLEY | $15,000 |
| VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES | $15,000 |
| SWIFT SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| COASTAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| FLOMATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BALDWIN COUNTY S&W CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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 +5% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 24 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k 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
- PPProdisee Pantry Inc5× · 2019–2025 · $59k · revenue +113%
- POPRIDE OF ATMORE INC3× · 2019–2022 · $55k · revenue +134%
- ACALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- COCITY OF MOBILEone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TOTOWN OF RIVERVIEWone grant, 2021 · $20k
- LLLittle Lagoon Preservation Societyone grant, 2022 · $17k
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.
Volunteer fire department serving the residents of new bethel community in alabama
To train volunteer firefighters and respond to emergency calls within the area. to provide emergency care as necessary to the area based on 911 calls and emergency medical services.
To provide firefighting, fire prevention, rescue, haz mat,and first responder emergency medical services to the citizens of madison county, al and surrounding communities. provides safety eduation and awareness.
Fire fighting services, fire prevention and fire education and training serving the south baldwin community
Volunteer fire department that serves the city of farmington, ms
Fire protection services for dolphin, va and surrounding communities
To perform any civic works which may be beneficial and useful to the peoples of autagua county, alabama, and the state of alabama. to do and perform all acts under the law of the state of alabama.
provides emergency fire services to Port Bolivar and mutual aid to Crystal Beach, Gilchrist and High Island.
Fire control
To provide firefighting, fire prevention, rescue, Haz-Mat, and first responder emergencymedical services to the citizens of Madison County AL and surrounding communities. Provided safety education and awareness. Area served is…
Provides volunteer fire protection for a rural alabama community
To provide fire protection and rescue services for fannin county, georgia
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elsanor Volunteer Fire Dept & Rescu Rescue Unit Inc and the most unlike its peers is Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 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 18 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) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 119 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 Prodisee Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds PRIDE OF ATMORE INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOWA BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIAN COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR A BETTER GRAND BAY ↗
- Who funds VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds BREWTON AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA ↗
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 Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Alabama Humanities Alliance · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Fairhope Single Tax Corporation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Lillian C McGowin Foundation · Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 · The Sybil and White Smith 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 Gulf Coast Resource Conservation and Development Area 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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