· Private foundation
Hearin - Chandler Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $649k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $395k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL | $395,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEOLOGAL SOCIETY | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $130,000 |
| ST IGNATIUS CATHOLIC PARISH | $100,000 |
| MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART | $100,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST | $100,000 |
| HISTORIC RESTORATION SOCIETY INC | $100,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $80,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR ANIMAL COALITION | $75,000 |
| INFIRMARY FOUNDATION | $52,500 |
| FRIENDS OF MAGNOLIA CEMETERY INC | $50,000 |
| COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| MOBILE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI | $50,000 |
| MOBILE CARNIVAL ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 14 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $438k 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
- SPST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $735k · revenue +33%
- HRHISTORIC RESTORATION SOCIETY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +24%
- MAMOBILE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE4× · 2020–2023 · $460k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- N(NSCDA (NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA)one grant, 2020 · $105k
- FOFRIENDS OF ACKERVILLE BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $60k
- PPProdisee Pantry Incone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -56%
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.
Fomp's primary purpose is to revitalize and rebuild the municipal park so that the youth of mobile can have a safe place to play sports.
None
Provide citizens a means to protect the beauty, health and heritage of the Mobile Bay Watershed, Alabamas waterways and coastal communities.
To Preserve the Governors Mansion
Provider of rural pre-hospital care, emergency medical education and training and medical dispatch communications
Operates historical museum/properties and promotes historical development within clarke county alabama
Purpose is to use income produced by the trust to support the operations of bma at the direction of the directors.
Mobile Arts Councils mission is to enrich the quality of life in the Mobile area through increasing accessibility to the arts and promoting a vibrant cultural community.
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
To educate, preserve and mark the historic contributions of African-Americans in Mobile.
The association is the professional real estate trade association in the mobile, alabama area. it was created to promote the local real estate industry and encourage high standards of conduct among real estate professionals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Restoration Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ocean Habitats Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 128 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 ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF 1868 INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE CARNIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INFIRMARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF 1842 ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds Mulherin Custodial Home Inc ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL BALLET OF MOBILE ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR ANIMAL COALITION 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: J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · The Ee Delaney Foundation Inc · Lillian C McGowin Foundation · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Rjjb Family Foundation · Nan H Altmayer Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trustee · Mapp Family 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 Hearin - Chandler 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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