· Private foundation
Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUMBERLAND SCHOOL OF LAW | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDAT | $10,000 |
| SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA | $3,700 |
| LAKESHORE FOUNDATION | $3,700 |
| WORKSHOPS INC | $3,600 |
| KINGS HOME | $3,600 |
| RESTORATION ACADEMY | $3,600 |
| PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC | $3,600 |
| UAB CENTER FOR LOW VISION REHABILITATION | $3,600 |
| GLENWOOD INC | $3,600 |
| NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND ALABAMA | $2,400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +78%
- SSSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +34%
- LFLAKESHORE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAone grant, 2017 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $4k
- UCUAB CENTER FOR LOW VISIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
Goodwill industries provides training and employment for handicapped persons.
Provide year-round sports training & athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage,…
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.
The Association's Mission is to fund quality eye treatment for the medically indigent of Alabama. Services provided include providing glasses, surgeries, anesthesia, medically necessary contact lenses, prosthesis, tests and eye medication.
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
To provide treatment and rehabilitative services for juveniles and adults in alabama through contracts primarily with the alabama department of youth services and the alabama department of mental health.
Crestwood day school is a private elementary (k-6th) grade school in alabama.
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
The arc of alabama provides services to aid individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the state of alabama.
To facilitate implementation of workforce development programs andservices that support economic and job development in the region andthat address the workforce needs of existing businesses and industry.
The mission of the Arc of Tuscaloosa County is to provide activities to persons residing in Tuscaloosa County who have developmental or intellectual disabilities, which enable the individual to maintain previously acquired skills/behaviors…
The mission of the school is to prepare students for leadership positions in the aerospace and aviation industries through a rigorous, authentic, industry-aligned aerospace and defense education.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kings Home Inc ↗
- Who funds PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE WORKSHOPS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds HAND IN PAW INC ↗
- Who funds TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Pete M Hanna Charitable Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd. Bigger dots raise more.
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