· Private foundation
Hewson Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $752k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tuscaloosa Education Foundation | $160,000 |
| United Way of West Alabama | $120,000 |
| NCH Healthcare System | $112,000 |
| Univ of Alabama Culverhouse College | $100,000 |
| Champions for Learning | $100,000 |
| Saban Center Foundation | $100,000 |
| University of Alabama | $60,000 |
| Kristen Amerson Youth Foundation | $25,000 |
| White House Historical Association | $25,000 |
| Junior Achievement of Tuscaloosa | $3,500 |
| Univ of Alabama RISE Program | $2,800 |
| Air and Space Forces Association | $1,000 |
| Lena Pope Home | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $339k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $755k · revenue +43%
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +143%
- TKThe Kristen Amerson Youth Foundation In2× · 2023–2024 · $26k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- FFFREEDOM FARM INCone grant, 2023 · $550k · revenue -29%
- UOUniversity of Alabama for Hewson Haone grant, 2019 · $50k
- AIAmerican Inst of Aeronautics Astronone grant, 2022 · $40k
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.
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
The mission of the university of florida alumni association, inc. ("association") is to exclusively support and enhance the mission of the university of florida ("university") of pursuing "excellence in education and research and shaping a…
The mission of the uab national alumni society is to support the university in its pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, and public service and to create, foster, and nurture a mutually beneficial relationship between the…
Tarrant Area Food Bank's (TAFB) mission is empowering our community to alleviate hunger and improve health. We value and embrace a culture of fairness and inclusion as fundamental to our vision of empowering communities where no one has to…
To engage our alumni in activities that will advance utsa as a top-tier institution. our focus is to deliver value-added services and events where our alumni can connect with each other, with current students and/or with the university. we…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
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The food bank operates as a clearing house for the collecting, sorting, storing and distribution of edible food to qualified agencies; who in turn pass the food along to alabama's "food insecure" citizens.
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
To advance arizona state university by enriching the lives of alumni, students and friends and fostering their lifelong connections all while continuing to provide services and programs to alumni.
The mission of the alumni association is to build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university by serving all alumni and students; being the center for engaging and connecting the global uva community; acting as a…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tuscaloosa City Schools Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Plott Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FARM INC ↗
- Who funds TUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT ↗
- Who funds SABAN CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Kristen Amerson Youth Foundation In ↗
- Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THOMAS PLOTT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LENA POPE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Alabama State Univeristy- National Alumni Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TUSCALOOSA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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: The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Westervelt Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Hewson Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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.