· Private foundation
Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $253k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARLES SCHWAB FBO HAROLD H GOING | $173,790 |
| ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $79,205 |
| CHURCH OF THE CROSS | $42,102 |
| ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $15,816 |
| KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $15,816 |
| WOFFORD COLLEGE | $15,816 |
| ROOTED MINISTRIES | $10,544 |
| LULU G STRONG FUND | $10,544 |
| ALABAMA POSSIBLE | $5,235 |
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 (FY17–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $284k 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
- APALABAMA POSSIBLE5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +73%
- PAPACE ACADEMY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +5%
- RMROOTED MINISTRIES INC2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +339%
Funded once
- BBBIRMINGHAM BOTANTICAL GARDENSone grant, 2020 · $1k
- RMRED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -66%
- CPCHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
As a christian liberal arts university, milligan university seeks to honor god by educating men and women to be servant-leaders.
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.
The purpose of the baptist missionary association theological seminary is to provide accredited undergraduate and graduate theological education for equipping individuals for christian service and leadership roles.
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.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
A statewide trade association which serves as a resource through which its electric cooperative members are provided services for the continuation and advancement of the rural electrification program in Alabama.
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,…
The primary mission of the alabama policy institute, inc. is to provide information to the people of alabama about primarily statewide legislative activity, and to promote and defend policies that preserve the principles of free markets,…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To glorify god by providing a quality, christ-centered education which challenges students and teachers to maximize their potential so that graduates are prepared to further their education while becoming productive christian citizens.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Possible and the most unlike its peers is Birmingham Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 30 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 WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA POSSIBLE ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Historical Society ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds YMCA ↗
- Who funds BIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RAIN 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: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Hackney Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Donald M James Family Foundation · Southern Imagination Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life 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 Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund 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.