· Private foundation
Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $169k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $38,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY BAPTIST ASSOC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| GORDONSTOUN AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION EAST ALABAMA | $13,667 |
| THE FRIENDS CENTER | $12,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL & NURSING HOME | $10,000 |
| ARC OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $9,500 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $9,000 |
| REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $7,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MOBILE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in AL; by stated purpose, 88%.
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 +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $636k · revenue +80%
- FCFRIENDS CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $133k · revenue +46% · 54% of their budget
- VHVictory Health Partners Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- WNWAGERVILLE NUTRITION CENTERone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CECHATOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $20k
- WBWASHINGTON BAPTIST ASSNone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
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How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 54 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 AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds GORDONSTOUN AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Victory Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc ↗
- Who funds PILOTS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE ALABAMA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE OUTDOORS INC ↗
- Who funds PKD Foundation ↗
- Who funds Finding Hope for FRRS1L ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henson and Kirkland Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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