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Harold W Ripps Charitable 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 $10k9 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION | $105,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| US ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| HUDSON INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL | $20,000 |
| NE MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CHABAD OF ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| BIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL | $5,637 |
| THE MIKE SLIVE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $3,000 |
| MOUNTAIN BROOK FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK CLUB | $2,500 |
| THE WELLHOUSE | $2,500 |
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 (FY22–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Harold W Ripps Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $900k · revenue +74%- EMEisenhower Medical Center3× · 2021–2024 · $235k · revenue +48%
- HIHudson Institute Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +189%
Funded once
- DCDESERT CLASSIC CHARITYone grant, 2017 · $21k
- PCPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +57%
- PCPARK CITY JEWISH CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
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Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Birmingham Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christopher Kids. 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 34 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 60 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 BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds N E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds US ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Monday Morning Quarterback Club ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE JERUSALEM FUND FOR EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds LORD WEDGWOOD CHARITY ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA GOLF CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BARTOW FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WELLHOUSE 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: Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Hackney Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Ronne & Donald Hess Foundation · The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation · Pete M Hanna Charitable Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen 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 W Ripps Charitable 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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