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Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$469k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 28
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$9.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionHealthInternationalEducationArts & CultureOther
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
FY2025still arriving19$469k11%
FY202427$440k33%
FY202319$455k21%
FY202221$529k19%
FY202128$491k71%
FY202015$358kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.4MHuman Services$327kReligion$267kPublic Safety & Disaster$213kHealth$154kEnvironment$104kFood & Nutrition$54kArts & Culture$42kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
CO
MO
KY
MD
TN
NC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Auburn University Foundation$635,50040%
Friends Center Inc$132,500554%
The Arc of Southwest Alabama Inc$102,00064%
Gordonstoun American Foundation$85,000420%
Victory Health Partners Inc$70,00061%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc$45,00051%
Pilots for Christ Inc$45,00053%
Regional Child Advocacy Center Inc$32,50062%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$32,50030%
Reach Global Ministries$22,0003n/a
Washington Baptist Assn$15,0001n/a
Samaritan's Purse$15,00010%
The Alabama 4-H Club Foundation$14,00030%
The Dollywood Foundation$10,00010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$10,00010%
Prestwick Preservation Society Inc$9,0002n/a
Hope Outdoors Inc$8,00021%
PKD Foundation$7,50010%
Distinguished Young Women of Washington County$6,0002n/a
Finding Hope for FRRS1L$5,0001n/a
Bighouse Inc$5,00011%
Washington County Museum Association$5,00019%
Washington County Historical Society$5,0001n/a
Giving Strength Inc$5,00012%
Alabama Log a Load for Kids Foundation$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAuburn University Foundation: $635,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFriends Center Inc: $132,500 over 5y, 54% of budgetThe Arc of Southwest Alabama Inc: $102,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetGordonstoun American Foundation: $85,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetVictory Health Partners Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPilots for Christ Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetRegional Child Advocacy Center Inc: $32,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Alabama 4-H Club Foundation: $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Dollywood Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Outdoors Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPKD Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBighouse Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWashington County Museum Association: $5,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetGiving Strength Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAlabama Log a Load for Kids Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 19.

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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.

Thomas L Turner Charitable Trust Regions BankAL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomas L Turner Charitable Trust Regions Bank · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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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.

About Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation

How much does Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation give?
Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $468,667 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Human Services (12%), Religion (10%).
Who are Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Auburn University Foundation ($636k), Friends Center Inc ($133k), The Arc of Southwest Alabama Inc ($102k).
Does Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas L Turner Charitable Trust Regions Bank, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation based?
Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation 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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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