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Hearin - Chandler Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$395k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$2.9MArts & Culture$2.8MEducation$1.5MCommunity Improvement$750kHuman Services$684kEnvironment$668kHealth$658kRecreation & Sports$415kOther$0
02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $649k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $395k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL$395,000
NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEOLOGAL SOCIETY$150,000
Individual grant recipient$130,000
MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
ST IGNATIUS CATHOLIC PARISH$100,000
HISTORIC RESTORATION SOCIETY INC$100,000
MISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST$100,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$80,000
SAFE HARBOR ANIMAL COALITION$75,000
INFIRMARY FOUNDATION$52,500
MOBILE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION$50,000
MOBILE SYMPHONY$50,000
THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI IN THE STATE OF NH$50,000
THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI$50,000
ST MARY'S CATHOLIC HCURCH$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MARY'S SHELTER: $10k → 12%MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME: $50k → 19%MARY'S SHELTER: $5k → 12%MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME: $50k → 19%MARY'S SHELTER: $2k → 12%MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME: $25k → 19%MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME: $25k → 19%JACKSON COUNTY CIVIC ACTION COMMITTEE INC: $15k → 16%THE CENTRE: $10k → 12%CRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES: $15k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
PA
MO
VA
DC
MS
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 74 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
39

Total granted

$10M
$725k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+1%

Still filing today

55%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $438k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SP
    ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $735k · revenue +33%
  • HR
    HISTORIC RESTORATION SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +24%
  • MA
    MOBILE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $460k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • N(
    NSCDA (NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA)
    one grant, 2020 · $105k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ACKERVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $60k
  • PP
    Prodisee Pantry Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -56%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Friends of Municipal Park

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.

Human Services
2
Medical Society of Mobile County Inc

None

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3
Mobile Baykeeper Inc

Provide citizens a means to protect the beauty, health and heritage of the Mobile Bay Watershed, Alabamas waterways and coastal communities.

Environment
4
Friends of the Alabama Governors Mansion Inc

To Preserve the Governors Mansion

Arts & Culture
5
Mobile County Emergency Medical Services System

Provider of rural pre-hospital care, emergency medical education and training and medical dispatch communications

Health
6
Clarke County Historical Society

Operates historical museum/properties and promotes historical development within clarke county alabama

Arts & Culture
7
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
8
Birmingham Museum of Art Endowment Trust

Purpose is to use income produced by the trust to support the operations of bma at the direction of the directors.

Arts & Culture
9
Mobile Arts Council Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
10
The Medical Foundation of Alabama

To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects

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11
Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc

To educate, preserve and mark the historic contributions of African-Americans in Mobile.

Arts & Culture
12
Mobile Area Association of Realtors Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Restoration Society Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
45/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL: $1,515,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRALST IGNATIUS PARISH MOBILE: $580,000 · OtherST IGNATIUS PARISH MOBILEIndividual grant recipient: $520,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMOBILE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $460,000 · OtherMOBILE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCETHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $400,000 · OtherDUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $385,000 · OtherALABAMA SCHOOL OF MATH AND SCIENCE: $300,000 · Other+85 more: $3,619,000 · Other+85 moreHISTORIC RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC RESTORATIO…MISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST: $400,000 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI HERITAG…SOCIETY OF 1868 INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY OF 1868 INCSOCIETY OF 1842: $150,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY OF 1842ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $120,000 · Arts & CultureALABAMA SHAKESPEARE…Mobile Symphony Inc: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $100,000 · Arts & CultureBaldwin County Youth Orchestra: $75,000 · Arts & CultureCLASSICAL BALLET OF MOBILE: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $187,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $735,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MOBILE: $75,000 · Education+1 more: $15,000 · EducationMAIN STREET MOBILE INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementCOUNTRY CLUB ESTATES NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $85,000 · Community ImprovementBROAD STREET RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementTHE VILLAGE OF SPRING HILL INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementCahaba Foundation Inc: $50,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementMOBILE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · PhilanthropyPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyINFIRMARY FOUNDATION INC: $206,000 · HealthVictory Health Partners Inc: $40,000 · HealthAlabama Kidney Foundation Inc: $30,000 · HealthOzanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc: $27,000 · HealthMOBILE CARNIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $230,000 · Recreation & SportsLILLIAN RECREATIONAL PARK INC: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$7,779,000Arts & Culture$2,057,000Education$825,000Community Improvement$415,000Philanthropy$355,000Health$303,000Recreation & Sports$255,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $735,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetHISTORIC RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $500,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetMOBILE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $460,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $400,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST: $400,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetDUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $385,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetMOBILE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 5y, 41% of budgetSOCIETY OF 1868 INC: $250,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetMOBILE CARNIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $230,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetINFIRMARY FOUNDATION INC: $206,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetMulherin Custodial Home Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetSOCIETY OF 1842: $150,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetMAIN STREET MOBILE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $120,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMobile Symphony Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEASTERN SHORE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetCOUNTRY CLUB ESTATES NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $85,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetFIRST LIGHT COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBROAD STREET RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetBaldwin County Youth Orchestra: $75,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetCLASSICAL BALLET OF MOBILE: $75,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MOBILE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HARBOR ANIMAL COALITION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAlabama Forest Land Trust Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF MAGNOLIA CEMETERY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetFAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL INC: $50,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetTHE VILLAGE OF SPRING HILL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCahaba Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetMcKemie Place Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetVictory Health Partners Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetProdisee Pantry Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAVE A STRAY: $30,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetAlabama Kidney Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOzanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc: $27,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPURRFECT PARTNERS OF MOBILE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetAFRICAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH: $25,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetWALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMOBILE OPERA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE 1857 FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLa Pointe-Krebs Foundation Inc: $22,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHistoric Mobile Preservation Society Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetDAUPHIN RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST ↗
  • 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 Mulherin Custodial Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF 1842 ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET MOBILE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds Mobile Symphony Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN SHORE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds THE ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIGHT COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC ↗
  • Who funds BROAD STREET RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Baldwin County Youth Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds CLASSICAL BALLET OF MOBILE ↗

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.

J L Bedsole Foundatio…Crampton Trust #12550…The Daniel Foundation…The Ben May Charitabl…Cd Helen and Jeff Gla…As Mitchell Foundatio…The Ee Delaney Founda…Lillian C McGowin Fou…Mayer & Arlene Mitche…Rjjb Family FoundationNan H Altmayer Charit…Mapp Family Foundation
J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-TrusteeAL57.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hearin - Chandler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hearin - Chandler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Hearin - Chandler Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 128 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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