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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.

$369k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,816
Largest grant, FY2024
$173,790
Organizations funded a year
6 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$369k78%
FY20236$16k0%
FY20227$16k43%
FY20217$9k14%
FY20209$18k56%
FY20189$17k0%
FY201714$13kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$176kReligion$162kEducation$55kArts & Culture$22kHuman Services$15kPhilanthropy$11kAnimals$7kEnvironment$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wofford College$15,81610%
Kennesaw State University Foundation Inc$15,81610%
Alabama Possible$12,23551%
Rooted Ministries$10,5441n/a
Church of the Cross$10,0002n/a
Cathedral Church of the Advent$8,5004n/a
Birmingham Zoo Inc$7,00050%
Pace Academy Inc$4,00020%
Rooted Ministries Inc$3,00020%
Birmingham Historical Society$3,00031%
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All grantees of Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wofford College$15,81610%
Kennesaw State University Foundation Inc$15,81610%
Alabama Possible$12,23551%
Rooted Ministries$10,5441n/a
Church of the Cross$10,0002n/a
Cathedral Church of the Advent$8,5004n/a
Birmingham Zoo Inc$7,00050%
Pace Academy Inc$4,00020%
Rooted Ministries Inc$3,00020%
Birmingham Historical Society$3,00031%
Woodlawn United Inc$2,50020%
Parkinson Association of Alabama Inc$2,50021%
McWane Science Center$2,00020%
YMCA$2,00020%
Biglife International Inc$2,00020%
Christ Presbyterian Church$1,0001n/a
Red Mountain Park Foundation$1,00010%
Freedom Rain Inc$50010%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($354k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWofford College: $15,816 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKennesaw State University Foundation Inc: $15,816 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlabama Possible: $12,235 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPace Academy Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRooted Ministries Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBirmingham Historical Society: $3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWoodlawn United Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetParkinson Association of Alabama Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMcWane Science Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBiglife International Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRed Mountain Park Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom Rain Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund

How much does Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund give?
Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund reported 9 grants totaling $368,868 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (39%), Religion (35%), Education (12%).
Who are Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wofford College ($16k), Kennesaw State University Foundation Inc ($16k), Alabama Possible ($12k).
Does Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, The Hackney Foundation.
Where is Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund based?
Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund is based in AL.

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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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